Daily Racing Form: Horse racing

[mehtalmann]

10 aug 06 1459 hrs.
Greetings..
I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex formulas for extracting desired data.
I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy.
How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name?
Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task, for getting started would be greatly appreciated.
Rick.

[Max]

Just some thoughts for a galloping start to your venture <g> ..

If the table is set-up in columns with col headers in row1, then immediately
you could use Data > Filter > Autofilter to filter the table, for example by
the particular horse's name. Just select the name from the autofilter
droplist under the col header: Horses. That will filter out all the lines
pertaining to that particular horse for your closer inspection

Try Debra's nice intro to autofilter (and more!) at her:
http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter01.html
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Max
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"mehtalmann" wrote:
>
> 10 aug 06 1459 hrs.
> Greetings..
> I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started
> putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel
> spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex
> formulas for extracting desired data.
> I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a
> weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date
> for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy.
> How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular
> "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name?
> Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task,
> for getting started would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Rick.
>
>
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[Joe]

I hope you are not planning to place bets on your "results"!

"mehtalmann" wrote:

>
> 10 aug 06 1459 hrs.
> Greetings..
> I am new to site..and to the use of Excel. I have recently started
> putting information from the "Daily Racing Form" into an Excel
> spreadsheet. I will use this data to work out simple and later complex
> formulas for extracting desired data.
> I have made cells long enough to hold each field, and there will be a
> weekly entry. What I don't understand is how I will search each date
> for a particular horse. It seems the formula could get lengthy.
> How would I tell the program to search all the entries to a particular
> "line"?, or do I just give each entry a "header" name?
> Anyone with some good information and tips for this monumental task,
> for getting started would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Rick.
>
>
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> mehtalmann
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