Chelsie,

Use a Pivot Table. That is the easiest way to slice and dice your data.
Look in help, and/or visit

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Pivots/pivottables.htm

for a start...

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Chelsie" wrote in message
...
I need some assistance with some statisical reporting functions of excel. I
know there are simple ways to do this, but I'm pulling a blank.

Problem:
I have a worksheet full of survey results from our classroom evaluations.
For most of the questions, all I need is the average of the answers. But,
for
the demographic information, I need the totals broken down.

For example,
The first question is "Male/Female."
I need a broken down summary of how many manys and how many females per
class so that my sammary page would look like:

Class 1
Males: 9
Females: 14
GPA 2.0 or lower: 6

etc....

Other than the countif function(so I can avoid going through all 500+
classes, is there an easier way to have excel calucate this information
automatically?

thank you in advance.

chelsie