Pivot to count age ranges ie. 5-12, 13-20, 21-33, 34-50, 51-65

**scronmiller** · 08-23-2012, 11:39 AM

Need to tally number of individuals between age ranges

**MarvinP** · 08-23-2012, 11:56 AM

Hi scronmiller and welcome to the forum,

Fun little problem. You need to add a helper column that does a lookup or vlookup with range_lookup of TRUE. Then do your Pivot Table Histogram/Count.
See attached with a sample. and look at http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/excel/vlookup.htm for more info.

**scronmiller** · 08-23-2012, 12:50 PM

Many thanks!

**Cutter** · 08-23-2012, 02:10 PM

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