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Version: v.X Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Later this month, I will be volunteering for a local sprint racing event at a community festival. Races take place over three days of a long weekend. Friday features one mid-distance race and Saturday and Sunday feature sprint races repeated over the two-day event. (Contestants run in the race for the first day, have their race-time recorded, and then again on the second day, again the time is recorded. The race results are the total of both days' times for each contestant.) Some contestants may drop out of a race or be disqualified.
I was wondering if Excel X could tabulate race times like this. Someone else tried doing it last year with OpenOffice. We may go that route again, but I want to see if we can use Word and Excel in case the other volunteer isn't available.
Central to this project will be the ability to enter data for time (hours, minutes, seconds-plus-decimal-points) and add times together.
There are several different classes of races, each one would presumably be its own spreadsheet. Entries for each contestant would be sorted by starting order, then first and last name, the contestant's hometown and state, then the contestant's assigned racing number, then the times. Contestants are all signed up well in advance of the race, so I now have all of their registration data in hand.
The desired output would naturally be the re-arrange the contestants of each race in order of results. The results would also include for final added time.
Local newspapers and an international racing news web-site are given the results. These entities prefer the results in ".doc" format. I produced last year's results in tables in Microsoft Word v.X:Mac. Below is a link to a PDF file with the 2009 results.
http://sites.google.com/site/waltsimplesite/LobdellRaceResults2-2009.pdf?attredirects=0
How practical would it be to have Excel tabulate the race times and then transfer the data to a DOC file in Microsoft Word? (These news entities do not necessarily use the latest software; some may be long-in-tooth.)
My hardware & software:
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.33 GHz, 500 GB HDD, 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.6.2) iWork 2009, OpenOffice 3, Microsoft Office v.X:Mac
I was wondering if Excel X could tabulate race times like this. Someone else tried doing it last year with OpenOffice. We may go that route again, but I want to see if we can use Word and Excel in case the other volunteer isn't available.
Central to this project will be the ability to enter data for time (hours, minutes, seconds-plus-decimal-points) and add times together.
There are several different classes of races, each one would presumably be its own spreadsheet. Entries for each contestant would be sorted by starting order, then first and last name, the contestant's hometown and state, then the contestant's assigned racing number, then the times. Contestants are all signed up well in advance of the race, so I now have all of their registration data in hand.
The desired output would naturally be the re-arrange the contestants of each race in order of results. The results would also include for final added time.
Local newspapers and an international racing news web-site are given the results. These entities prefer the results in ".doc" format. I produced last year's results in tables in Microsoft Word v.X:Mac. Below is a link to a PDF file with the 2009 results.
http://sites.google.com/site/waltsimplesite/LobdellRaceResults2-2009.pdf?attredirects=0
How practical would it be to have Excel tabulate the race times and then transfer the data to a DOC file in Microsoft Word? (These news entities do not necessarily use the latest software; some may be long-in-tooth.)
My hardware & software:
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.33 GHz, 500 GB HDD, 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.6.2) iWork 2009, OpenOffice 3, Microsoft Office v.X:Mac