how do i enter a value to cells containing text?

[sara]

I am a teacher so I am trying to create a course listing where cells contain
choices of the classes students can take during that time frame. At the
bottom of all the choices I have a total credit coloumn where I would like
the cumulated totals to be.

I need to assign course credits to the choices ie.. english is worth one
credit. How can I go about doing this? the purpose is to have the credits
column at the bottom to automatically keep track of course credits as the
student selects them.

Any Ideas?

 

[Franz Verga]

Nel post *sara* ha scritto:

I am a teacher so I am trying to create a course listing where cells
contain choices of the classes students can take during that time
frame. At the bottom of all the choices I have a total credit coloumn
where I would like the cumulated totals to be.

I need to assign course credits to the choices ie.. english is worth
one credit. How can I go about doing this? the purpose is to have the
credits column at the bottom to automatically keep track of course
credits as the student selects them.

Any Ideas?

Hi Sara,

I can immagine you could use SUMPRODUCT function, but I think you should
give us some more details to understand how is your spreedsheet and so give
more help, or if you like you can upload an example file to
www.savefile.com...


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Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy

 

[sara]

I uploaded a sample copy of my worksheet (Thanks Franz for the tip). It can
be viewed at the following site: http://www.savefile.com/files/8768680 . Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

As you click on each drop down list for choices....each course is worth 0.5,
1.0, or 3.0 credits. So I am trying to assign the value to each cell.

Towards the bottom of the worksheet there is a column for total credits.
here I would like the credits to add automatically. I know how to do the
sumfunctions. It is assigning the value to each text cell that I am
encountering problems. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[RagDyeR]

You have the credits in the same column (Column A) as the course category.

Just separate them into a new, inserted Column B, and use SumIf to total
them at the bottom.
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I uploaded a sample copy of my worksheet (Thanks Franz for the tip). It can
be viewed at the following site: http://www.savefile.com/files/8768680 . Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

As you click on each drop down list for choices....each course is worth 0.5,
1.0, or 3.0 credits. So I am trying to assign the value to each cell.

Towards the bottom of the worksheet there is a column for total credits.
here I would like the credits to add automatically. I know how to do the
sumfunctions. It is assigning the value to each text cell that I am
encountering problems. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[Franz Verga]

I uploaded a sample copy of my worksheet (Thanks Franz for the tip).
It can be viewed at the following site:
http://www.savefile.com/files/8768680 . Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

As you click on each drop down list for choices....each course is
worth 0.5,
1.0, or 3.0 credits. So I am trying to assign the value to each cell.

Towards the bottom of the worksheet there is a column for total
credits. here I would like the credits to add automatically. I know
how to do the sumfunctions. It is assigning the value to each text
cell that I am encountering problems. Thanks in advance for your
assistance.

Hi Sara,

sorry for answering so late.

As RagDyeR suggested, you have to split your A column to separate course
category from credit. Then you can use SUMIF or also SUMPRODUCT to summarize
credits.


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Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy