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I wish to count the number of different products using the database function,
but need to exclude one of the products. Any ideas anyone?

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What do you mean by count them but ignore one? If you count them, just
subtract 1 to ignore 1. Or is there more to it than that? Give some example
data and results.

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but need to exclude one of the products. Any ideas anyone?

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What do you mean by count them but ignore one? If you count them, just
subtract 1 to ignore 1. Or is there more to it than that? Give some example
data and results.

--
HTH

Bob

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I wish to count the number of different products using the database
function,
but need to exclude one of the products. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Rosie36


Hi Bob

It is a spreadsheet (mock exam) showing a sales report for different
products and the sales for each of them. I need to count the number of sales
for all the products but excluding one of them (using a database function).
It is no problem counting all of them - but how do I exclude one of the items
using a database function. How do I show this in the criteria etc?



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The criteria that I showed you in your previous post, with the < (not
equal to) in front of the product name:

Product
<Pencil

will exclude one product.

rosie36 wrote:
I wish to count the number of different products using the database function,
but need to exclude one of the products. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Rosie36



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Just create a criteria section with a heading the same as the product
heading and a value below that of <product_to_be_excluded

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"Bob Phillips" wrote:

What do you mean by count them but ignore one? If you count them, just
subtract 1 to ignore 1. Or is there more to it than that? Give some
example
data and results.

--
HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)

"rosie36" wrote in message
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I wish to count the number of different products using the database
function,
but need to exclude one of the products. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Rosie36


Hi Bob

It is a spreadsheet (mock exam) showing a sales report for different
products and the sales for each of them. I need to count the number of
sales
for all the products but excluding one of them (using a database
function).
It is no problem counting all of them - but how do I exclude one of the
items
using a database function. How do I show this in the criteria etc?





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