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Daily Racing Form: Horse racing
10 aug 06 1459 hrs. Greetings.. I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex formulas for extracting desired data. I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy. How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name? Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task, for getting started would be greatly appreciated. Rick. -- mehtalmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mehtalmann's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=37358 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=570551 |
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Daily Racing Form: Horse racing
Just some thoughts for a galloping start to your venture <g ..
If the table is set-up in columns with col headers in row1, then immediately you could use Data Filter Autofilter to filter the table, for example by the particular horse's name. Just select the name from the autofilter droplist under the col header: Horses. That will filter out all the lines pertaining to that particular horse for your closer inspection Try Debra's nice intro to autofilter (and more!) at her: http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter01.html -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "mehtalmann" wrote: 10 aug 06 1459 hrs. Greetings.. I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex formulas for extracting desired data. I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy. How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name? Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task, for getting started would be greatly appreciated. Rick. -- mehtalmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mehtalmann's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=37358 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=570551 |
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Daily Racing Form: Horse racing
I hope you are not planning to place bets on your "results"!
"mehtalmann" wrote: 10 aug 06 1459 hrs. Greetings.. I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex formulas for extracting desired data. I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy. How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name? Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task, for getting started would be greatly appreciated. Rick. -- mehtalmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mehtalmann's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=37358 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=570551 |
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