I need guidance as I step into the dark land of the Evil Empire.

[johno]

I need some help with Microsoft Excel.

I'm trying to get trend report generated.

I have a excel spreadsheet that has 17 months of *daily* data in a simple table:

2003-11-14 50000
2003-11-15 55230
2003-11-16 62000
...
2005-03-19 70000
2005-03-20 71855
2005-03-21 71200

I can chart it easily enough, but I get a very wiggly graph and I'm more interested in seeing the weekly or monthly totals.

Short of creating the weekly/monthly sub-totals, is there an easy way to create sums or charts, with data subtotaled based on date?

Comments

[khanfused.livejournal.com]

When you're doing that -- you just need to make sure that Excel is treating his date field AS a date field, instead of ten bazillion data labels. Because if it's doing the latter, it won't average out the line into a curve -- it'll try to plot every single damned line, AND print the date "label" at the bottom of the graph.

I still haven't figured out how to fix that one.