Summarize data in Excel with VBA

Question

I have a table in Excel with dates and values. Every day there were a number of different values.

I want to summarize how many of each value there were every day.

Example: From this

Date  Value

10/1  Blue
10/1  Blue
10/1  Red
11/1  Blue
11/1  Blue

I want to get a new table with something like this:

     10/1    11/1
Blue    2       2
Red     1       0

I'm convinced this is possible to do in VBA/Excel. Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

The solution was, just as Alex K said, to use the Privot Table function included in Excel.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 2

Assuming the first table is in A1 and the second in E1, you could use a formula in F2 like:

=SUM(($A$2:$A$6=F$1)*($B$2:$B$6=$E2))

This is an array formula so you need to validate it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.

A2:A6 is the range with the dates, B2:B6 the range with the colors in your first table. The first part of the formula says: Retain records where the value in column A is 10/1 ( = F1).

The second part says : Retain records where the value in column B is Blue ( = E2).

The '*' is equivalent to AND.

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