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Conditionally summing cells based on conditions in other rows

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    Bert
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    Conditionally summing cells based on conditions in other rows

    I've designed a simple spreadsheet to track grades using Excel 2003.

    Each specific assignment/quiz grade for a student is in a separate column.

    The beginning row of each class contains the highest grades possible for
    each assignment/test/etc.

    Sample:

    Name Rank Cumulative Offset Gr1 Gr2
    G3 G4.

    1 Possible Score 260
    100 20 40 100

    2 Student 1 196 40
    80 20 E 96

    3 Student 3 206
    86 20 30 90

    4 Student 2 190 60
    90 E E 100

    ..



    To determine the grade for each student, I've created a formula (in the
    "Rank" Column) that calculates a percentage of the cumulative highest score
    possible.

    This works fine, except sometimes I excuse a student from an assignment. To
    compare their total scores to the cumulative highest score possible would be
    unfair, so to accommodate for this, I've added a column labeled "Offset".
    For each student in this situation, I put an "E" (for "excused") in
    appropriate column. Then I manually put the corresponding high score in the
    Offset column for any student who has been excused from a given assignment.

    Here's the formula I'm using: =ROUND(((100*C2)/($C$1-D2)),0) ----- Where
    C2 is the total of all scores for a given student, $C$1 is the cumulative
    highest score possible, and D2 is the offset value if any. (Finally I use
    VLOOKUP to insert a letter grade in another column.)

    QUESTION:

    Is there a way to accommodate this "Excused" situation with a some sort of
    conditional formula so I don't have to manually assign an "Offset" for those
    students. (maybe with SUMIF?) For example: If "E" is a student's score
    for a given assignment, then subtract the highest possible score for that
    assignment. Or if a cell is not "E" then include the highest possible score.



    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!







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    Your examples are a little hard to follow because of the layout in the forum. Any chance you can link a spreadsheet example

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    Bert
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    Re: Conditionally summing cells based on conditions in other rows

    Yes, I see the formatting problem. I'm sorry, but the spreadsheeet isn't
    online so I can't send a link to it. Does the newsgroup accept attachments?
    I'd be happy to send it to an individual email address. Failing that I
    could try to send a more "compressed" version of the example.
    Bert

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    I tried to send you my email address via Private Messaging but it seems you have this disabled.

    Matt

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