Converting Tally Marks to Numerical Value and Totaling the results.

**bdavis711** · 09-07-2012, 04:14 PM

I am a noob when it comes to excel but wanted to know if it was possible to have a tally running on several sheets and adding all the tallies from the sheets on a final sheet of a workbook.

So the workbook would set up as follows:
Each sheet (of which there are 8) would have:

Row 1 as the titles for each column.
Column A - "Players Name"
Column B - "Super Star"
Column C - "Bills Logo"
Column D - "Football"
Column E - "Offense"
Column F - "Defense"

Under Column A from A2:A29 - will list each players name.

For B2:F29 - will be Tally marks for each sticker a player earn in the game. Each game will be tallied on a seperate page and the totalled on the last page, in each of the cooresponding columns.

My questions for all who can help are:

How do you make tally marks? I read about the marlett font to make checkmarks but how would you make the tally marks countable. Is it possible to have those tally/checkmarks display as a numerical value after entering them? or have the value for all the tally marks display on the totals sheet?

I know about the SUM function and that could be the solution to adding all the values from the sheets to the total sheet at the end of the workbook, but I guess converting the tally marks to a numerical value would be the easiest option. Any ideas?

**zbor** · 09-07-2012, 04:25 PM

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**bdavis711** · 09-27-2012, 12:09 PM

Bump. I am in real need of this, as we will be having an awards banquet in a few weeks and would like to know right away who gets our MOP trophy and being able to send the spread sheet will be a nice touch I think

**WHER** · 09-28-2012, 05:30 AM

Assuming that every "tally mark" is actually a capital "I":

**bdavis711** · 10-01-2012, 09:07 PM

Thanks so much, Wher! That is awesome and I don't think I would have ever come up with that as a solution.

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