In Excel, how to group data by date, and then do operations on the data?

Posted by Bicou on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Bicou
Published on 2011-01-12T13:45:13Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 13:55 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 190

Filed under:

excel-2003

|

pivot-table

Hi,

I have Excel 2003. My data is like this:

01/10/2010 0.99
02/10/2010 1.49
02/10/2010 0.99
02/10/2010 0.99
02/10/2010 0.99
03/10/2010 1.49
03/10/2010 1.49
03/10/2010 0.99

etc. In fact it is a list of sales every day. I want to have something like this:

01/10/2010 0.99
02/10/2010 4.46
03/10/2010 3.97

I want to group by date, and sum the column B. I'd like to see the evolution of the sales over time, and display a nice graph about that.

I have managed to create pivot tables that almost do the job: they list the number of 0.99 and 1.49 each day, but I can't find a way to simply sum everything and group by date.

Thanks for reading.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about excel-2003

Migrating from VBA Excel 2003

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I have a series of big excel files that work like a program, but I hate beeing tied up (stuck in VBA for excel 2003), so... Whats the best way to implement a gui over a excel vba program (office 2003)? (are there any tools for that... I want to move away from the office suite, but still have it in… >>> More
Migrating from VBA Excel 2003

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have a series of big excel files that work like a program, but I hate beeing tied up (stuck in VBA for excel 2003), so... Whats the best way to implement a gui over a excel vba program (office 2003)? (are there any tools for that... I want to move away from the office suite, but still have it in… >>> More
Excel: how to add cells to named range

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I have a named range for 3 cells in excel 2003 I need to insert 1 more cell into this named range how do I achieve this in excel 2003 >>> More
How to stop Excel 2003 from loading a Gazillion files

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
One of my soon-to-be-ex-friends got an Excel file from another friend of his and decided to click on it. It started opening all kinds of files from within Excel. Over 200 and still counting when he called me. I told him to go to task manager, which showed a LOT of files in the applications tab, but… >>> More
Create or Open an .xlsx file having >256 columns in MS Excel 2003

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I'm using Microsoft Office 2003. I have installed 'Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, Powerpoint 2007' to support new xml based formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). Now given that I have installed Compatibility pack, can I create or open a Microsoft Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) having more… >>> More

Related posts about pivot-table

multiple pivot table consolidation to another pivot table

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have to SQL Server views being drawn to 2 seperate worksheets as pivot tables in an excel 2007 file. the results on worksheet1 include example data: - company_name, tickets, month, year company1, 3, 1,2009 company2, 4, 1,2009 company3, 5, 1,2009 company3, 2, 2,2009 results from worksheet2… >>> More
Working with PivotTables in Excel

as seen on How to geek - Search for 'How to geek'
PivotTables are one of the most powerful features of Microsoft Excel. They allow large amounts of data to be analyzed and summarized in just a few mouse clicks. In this article, we explore PivotTables, understand what they are, and learn how to create and customize them. Note: This article… >>> More
Sorting in Pivot Table on how data is summarized, not just the value

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Often I am creating pivot tables that summarize some count by some category. Let's say I am counting Yes/No responses by some category. I usually add the count field and display it as a "% of row", and then create a pivot chart. However, if I want to sort one of the columns, say "Yes", Excel sorts… >>> More
MSFT Excel pivot table links to external data

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Question1: What is the best online forum to ask MSFT Excel questions of the following variety? Question2: How can I link an excel pivot-table to a potentially changing source table without having to re-draw the excel pivot-table layout every time the source table changes data. (Note, the columns… >>> More
How to create Pivot table using C#?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi! I need to create a pivot like this BatchID-1 BatchID-2 BachName-1 BachName-2 Chemical-1 0.1 null Chemical-2 null 0.3 Here i need to display the value of specific chemical if Specific BatchID and BatchName Can… >>> More