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A little help for a newbie
Hi guys,
I'm fairly fluent in MS Access but I've been handed a task that is baffling me. I've been asked to produce a report(s) in Excel that has a series of sales by territory. I have a bunch of raw data in a spreadsheet that has several items including Name, Address, State, ZIP, Territory, ItemCode, SaleDate, Quantity and Price. From this data, I would like to create a macro or something that would take the data for a given territory and "dump" it into a workbook to track sales performance over the past 6 months. Apart from the most simple use, I've never used Excel in this way and I'm currently pulling my hair out so I'd be so grateful if anyone could help or point me in the right direction. Many thanks, Dean... |
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A little help for a newbie
Hi Dean,
Try Autofilter. Look it up in Help. It places drop down arrows on each of the column headers and allows you to select just the data that you want. A bit like having a listbox on every column of data. You can copy the visible cells and paste them to another worksheet in the same workbook or in another workbook. If you want to create macros, to get the syntax you can record the macros. They often require editing but it is a good start and if you are already familiar with Access then you should not have too much of a problem. Also, lookup Subtotal function. You can do a lot with it when summing, counting averaging etc in conjunction with Autofilter. I find that by placing the column headers for the data about the 5 or 6 rows from the top of the worksheet and then use Freeze panes so that the column headers remain on the worksheet (do not scroll with other data). You can place the subtotal formulas above the column headers and then both the column headers and the results of the formulas are always visible. -- Regards, OssieMac "DeanL" wrote: Hi guys, I'm fairly fluent in MS Access but I've been handed a task that is baffling me. I've been asked to produce a report(s) in Excel that has a series of sales by territory. I have a bunch of raw data in a spreadsheet that has several items including Name, Address, State, ZIP, Territory, ItemCode, SaleDate, Quantity and Price. From this data, I would like to create a macro or something that would take the data for a given territory and "dump" it into a workbook to track sales performance over the past 6 months. Apart from the most simple use, I've never used Excel in this way and I'm currently pulling my hair out so I'd be so grateful if anyone could help or point me in the right direction. Many thanks, Dean... |
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