Excel's Formula - sisman

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Part V: Miscellaneous Formula Techniques
Following are the settings I used for this pivot table:
The Values area has three instances of the Reading field. I used the Data Field Setting
dialog box (Summarize Values By tab) to summarize the first instance by Average, the
second instance by Min, and the third instance by Max.
The Time field is in the Row Labels section, and I used the Grouping dialog box to group
by Hours.
Creating a Frequency Distribution
Excel provides a number of ways to create a frequency distribution, but none of those methods is
easier than using a pivot table. Figure 18-29 shows part of a table of 221 students and the test
score for each. The goal is to determine how many students are in each ten-point range (1–10,
11–20, and so on).
This workbook, named test scores.xlsx, is available on the companion CD-ROM.
Figure 18-29: Creating a frequency distribution for these test scores is simple.