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I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a
spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process
Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work.
Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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No, so some stages on some series will be black
"Lance" wrote: OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work. Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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Are you familiar with the vlookup function?
"orquidea" wrote: No, so some stages on some series will be black "Lance" wrote: OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work. Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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No too much but if you explain a litlle bit to me what should I do and with
the Excel help I think I would be able to do it. Thanks for replying back Orquidea "Lance" wrote: Are you familiar with the vlookup function? "orquidea" wrote: No, so some stages on some series will be black "Lance" wrote: OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work. Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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If I'm understanding your data layout correctly, it's:
A B C D 1 Series Time Series Time 2 Series Time Series Time 3 Series Time Series Time 4 Series Time Series Time Which I do find kind of odd by the way.. So essentially you are going to make a new column (E) which will use the vlookup function to search through column C until it finds a match for the value in the current row of column A, and then return the value of D. So the formula for E1 would be =VLOOKUP(A1,C:D,2,FALSE) A1 - the cell with the search value C:D - the cell range to look through, only the left most column will be searched but we needed to include the D column so we could return a value from it. 2 - the column number to return a value from ( D in this case ) False - the data is not sorted, so this must be false else an error is returned You will then have the correct time in column E to match the series in column A. The display will be confusing as columns C & D will not match A, B & C.. so you might want to have your data display in another worksheet. "orquidea" wrote: No too much but if you explain a litlle bit to me what should I do and with the Excel help I think I would be able to do it. Thanks for replying back Orquidea "Lance" wrote: Are you familiar with the vlookup function? "orquidea" wrote: No, so some stages on some series will be black "Lance" wrote: OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work. Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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Thanks a lot Lance, It worked perfectly with all the data and I succed with
what I wanted to do. Orquidea "Lance" wrote: If I'm understanding your data layout correctly, it's: A B C D 1 Series Time Series Time 2 Series Time Series Time 3 Series Time Series Time 4 Series Time Series Time Which I do find kind of odd by the way.. So essentially you are going to make a new column (E) which will use the vlookup function to search through column C until it finds a match for the value in the current row of column A, and then return the value of D. So the formula for E1 would be =VLOOKUP(A1,C:D,2,FALSE) A1 - the cell with the search value C:D - the cell range to look through, only the left most column will be searched but we needed to include the D column so we could return a value from it. 2 - the column number to return a value from ( D in this case ) False - the data is not sorted, so this must be false else an error is returned You will then have the correct time in column E to match the series in column A. The display will be confusing as columns C & D will not match A, B & C.. so you might want to have your data display in another worksheet. "orquidea" wrote: No too much but if you explain a litlle bit to me what should I do and with the Excel help I think I would be able to do it. Thanks for replying back Orquidea "Lance" wrote: Are you familiar with the vlookup function? "orquidea" wrote: No, so some stages on some series will be black "Lance" wrote: OK.. maybe a cheap and easy approach could work. Is there ALWAYS an entry in each stage for each series? "orquidea" wrote: Yes, every series will have just one entry per stage in the process Thanks, Orquidea "Lance" wrote: First Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet. When you choose to use a spreadsheet over a database you are trading away a lot of functionality. But, moving on to your problem... Is there only 1 Open entry and 1 ASG entry per series in the spreadsheet? "orquidea" wrote: Hi All I need to measure the performance of a service. I have to time how long it takes for series 502 from OPEN to ASG. I wouldn't be a problem if I had the data from the same series in the same row, but it is not the case. I will have the OPN time in row 2 and the ASG time in row 3 or 4 or 5. The process have 7 steps and not all the series go through all 7 steps. That means that if I sorted all the series in ascendent order, the series not necessarily match in the same row. Is there any way I can sort the data so I get all the data of series 502 in the same row? Below is the example of the raw data. A B C D 1 SERIE OPEN SERIE ASG 2 502 11/12/07 17:20 505 11/12/07 20:50 4 507 11/12/07 15:20 502 11/12/07 11:30 5 |
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