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

[mdlbear]

My inclination would be to print the whole thing out and munge it with a Perl script. Then import it back into Excel for the graphing.

Doing the monthly totals in Perl would be trivial; doing the weeklies might be simpler if you convert the dates into Unix time_t (seconds since 1970-01-01), which Perl cn do pretty easliy.