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You may have data from other sources such as text files, CSV files databases. Whether that’s an Access database or some other database in the back end maybe it’s a web page that you want to build a pull data from. But you’ve got external data that you now want …

I’m going to show you, how you can combine data validation lists a little drop down menu with functions inside of Excel making the function more interactive and more dynamic. I’m going to go back to the list functions worksheets, that we were on earlier, where we created the subtotal …

We’ve seen a few different types of data validation instead of Excel. Little picklists dropdown lists that the users can choose from. We did that on the make column and we did a decimal range value. Now we saw that if you put something in there that doesn’t fall within …

Create the little dropdown give the users the exact values for them to pick from. Another type that I want to show up here is arrange a numeric range. I want to specify that within a column in this case within the Rate column. You can only put values 14.95 …

I’m still on the Sort & Filter worksheet within the Excel102exercise file. Now I want to create a dropdown list, when users are entering the make value within these records. I want to give them a specific list of makes that they can choose: Ford, Chevy, Pontiac, Oldsmobile.. That way …

What the subtotal function can do for you, this is excels subtotal function. The subtotal function I’m going to F1, I started to type There’s subtotal function, it’s asking me for two things. I’ll go hit the fx button, here’s argument window. It’s got two arguments, It wants to know …

Now I want to get the counts, I want to know how many sales we’re done with the category of SUPPLIES. At J9 cell, I’m get a count of the sales column where the category is equal to supplies. I’m going to use the DCOUNT function because I’m going to …

I’ve got my average sales at cell K2 and I’m just going to use my same criteria section. We can do And, Or statements exactly the same way that we did it with the DSUM. Let’s start out with the simple one and then I’ll give you an opportunity to …

We’ve seen a single criteria where we’re getting where category is equal to rent, and we’ve included the software category. We’re giving total sales where category is equal to rents or software,  that was in your statement. Let’s take a look at utilizing an and statement inside of our criteria. …

We’ve got a single bit of criteria we’re summing up the total sales column where the category column is equal to “Rent”. What if you wanted to do I want to get a sum of the category for rent and or I want to get it for overhead so give …