Re: Database Functions

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:18 -0500, Charles Van deZande wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm working with a database that contains descriptions of sport shoes
> (walking, running, etc).  I am trying to count the number of brown
> shoes with prices > $90, for example.  The function I'm using is 
> =DCOUNTA(address of datablock, column "Cost", address of criteria).
> The address of the criteria block is H1:J2 where H1:J1 contains Color
> and Cost; H2:J2 contains Brown and >90.  I've tried it with quotes and
> no quotes around the labels and I keep getting the error "#NUM!".
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> CHV 
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I am not quite sure I understand what you are doing. You may have to be
a bit more explicit, but the criteria should have the label above the
value, so: "H2:J2 contains Brown and >90" is not right it should be
H2:H3 contains...

Andreas
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Andreas J. Guelzow
Concordia University College of Alberta