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Lookup formula??? in Excel

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mkuethe

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I want to export a query from Access to Excel and then analyze the data. What I'm pulling into Excel is data with 31 columns. (30 are audit questions and the last is the name of the person being audited.)

Row 1 is a header row, showing each question's description. (i.e. Greeting, time check, transfer, etc.) The remaining rows are either 1, 0 or -1 for the 30 questions, and the person's name in the last column. ("1" is considered a pass, "0" is considered a fail, and "-1" is considered not applicable.)

The purpose of the analysis is to identify all questions scored as "0" for each person.

The problem is, each person has more than one audit, so I guess I need some kind of lookup formula that will look at the scores for all of each person's audits and return the question description for all cases of a "0" score.

For instance, John Doe scored a "0" on Greeting in three different audits, but only one "0" on Transfer. I would want the formula to produce the following results:

John Doe:
Greeting
Transfer
Greeting
Greeting

We would then analyze the data each month, allowing us to identify trends. (i.e. John Doe scores "0" on greeting several times each month - maybe additional training is needed for John on greeting requirements.)

If anyone can assist, I would greatly appreciate it. If needed, I can provide further information.
 

Hi

Trouble is, your Access table is not normalized, it seems, OR you are exporting a REPORT that has de-normalized your data, making it very difficult to analyze and produce summary information.

You can use the PivotTable Wizard to normalize your data. Then you can apply the PivotTable Wizard to summarize the data as you have described above.

NORMALIZE Your Table using the PivotTable Wizard faq68-5287

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