Which functions help with ease of tabulation?

[ntrain22]

I would like to create a spreadsheet that easily tabulates alpha-onl
results. I am working on a retention project for my job, and would lik
to track cancellation reasons, offers made, results and such. I woul
like to use drop-down menus so that users can select options with ease
and I would like for the spreadsheet to give numeric results based o
the alpha reasons that will be selected from. I need assistance i
creating the drop down menus and with getting Excel to turn alph
reasons to numeric results, if this is possible. :confused

 

[Don Guillett]

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http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software
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I would like to create a spreadsheet that easily tabulates alpha-only
results. I am working on a retention project for my job, and would like
to track cancellation reasons, offers made, results and such. I would
like to use drop-down menus so that users can select options with ease,
and I would like for the spreadsheet to give numeric results based on
the alpha reasons that will be selected from. I need assistance in
creating the drop down menus and with getting Excel to turn alpha
reasons to numeric results, if this is possible.

creating financial statements

 

[Gord Dibben]

train

An example only........

In column A enter the Alphas(A1:A20)

In column B enter the numbers(B1:B20)

In D1 enter =VLOOKUP(C1,$A$1:$B$20,2,false)

Type an alpha into C1 and a number will appear in D1.

A further refinement would be to use Data Validation with a drop-down box in
C1(in this example) with your alphas as the "list" to choose from.

For more on Data Validation see Debra Dalgleish's site.....

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal01.html

Gord Dibben XL2002