sum over categories

This is probably a stupid question, but please bear with me. I have a table
that lists sales data, something like this:

date invoice customer amount
1/4/04 1 X 100
1/5/04 2 X 200
1/5/04 3 Y 100

All I want to do is to get a table that gives me the sum totals for each
customer or for a certain date, etc. I have tried Pivot tables, but for some
reason the pivot tables give me the count of entries for each customer, but
not the sum of the purchases. Is there a simple way of doing this?

mike

You can go into the layout of the pivot table (seek URL
below for what I'm talking about) and double-click on the
field that reads "Count of Customer" and change it
to "Sum".

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot02.html

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

>-----Original Message-----
>This is probably a stupid question, but please bear with
me. I have a table
>that lists sales data, something like this:
>
>date invoice customer amount
>1/4/04 1 X 100
>1/5/04 2 X 200
>1/5/04 3 Y 100
>
>All I want to do is to get a table that gives me the sum
totals for each
>customer or for a certain date, etc. I have tried Pivot
tables, but for some
>reason the pivot tables give me the count of entries for
each customer, but
>not the sum of the purchases. Is there a simple way of
doing this?
>
>mike
>.
>

Drag the customer to the column field, the date to the row field and the
amount to the data field will give you sum for each customer for each date
unless your amounts are text

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"mikebo" wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question, but please bear with me. I have a table
> that lists sales data, something like this:
>
> date invoice customer amount
> 1/4/04 1 X 100
> 1/5/04 2 X 200
> 1/5/04 3 Y 100
>
> All I want to do is to get a table that gives me the sum totals for each
> customer or for a certain date, etc. I have tried Pivot tables, but for some
> reason the pivot tables give me the count of entries for each customer, but
> not the sum of the purchases. Is there a simple way of doing this?
>
> mike