Riddle from Excel
Here is a riddle from Excel that will test your skills and understanding of some program functions:
Riddle
You have an Excel sheet with two columns of data. Column A contains dates from January 1 to December 31 of a given year. Column B contains random sales values from the same period. Your task is to find the sum of sales, but only for the spring months, which are March, April, and May.
Question
What formulas or steps would you take to solve this task in Excel?
Hint
If your system uses a different date format (e.g. day before month), adjust the format in the formula accordingly.
Here is a riddle from Excel that will test your skills and understanding of some program functions:
Riddle
You have an Excel sheet with two columns of data. Column A contains dates from January 1 to December 31 of a given year. Column B contains random sales values from the same period. Your task is to find the sum of sales, but only for the spring months, which are March, April, and May.
Question
What formulas or steps would you take to solve this task in Excel?
Hint
If your system uses a different date format (e.g. day before month), adjust the format in the formula accordingly.
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In the Polish version of Excel, formulas also use local settings, including date format (dd.mm.yyyy) and function names. The task of summing sales values for spring months (March, April, May) can be solved using the SUM.IF function and auxiliary functions for date processing. Here is the appropriate formula:
Formula in the Polish version of Excel:
=SUM.IF(A:A, ">=01.03.2023", B:B) - SUM.IF(A:A, ">31.05.2023", B:B)
Explanation of the formula:
- A:A is the range containing dates to be checked.
- ">=01.03.2023" is the criterion that specifies to consider dates from March 1, 2023.
- B:B is the range from which values will be summed (column with sales values).
- ">31.05.2023" is the criterion that specifies to end the summing at the end of May 31, 2023.
Notes:
- Adjust the dates in the formula to the actual year of the data. The example above uses the year 2023.
- Make sure that dates in column A are actually formatted as dates, not as text, so Excel can interpret them correctly.
This solution will allow for efficiently calculating the sum of sales values for spring months, using functions adapted to the Polish version of Excel.
In the Polish version of Excel, formulas also use local settings, including date format (dd.mm.yyyy) and function names. The task of summing sales values for spring months (March, April, May) can be solved using the SUM.IF function and auxiliary functions for date processing. Here is the appropriate formula:
Formula in the Polish version of Excel:
=SUM.IF(A:A, ">=01.03.2023", B:B) - SUM.IF(A:A, ">31.05.2023", B:B)
Explanation of the formula:
- A:A is the range containing dates to be checked.
- ">=01.03.2023" is the criterion that specifies to consider dates from March 1, 2023.
- B:B is the range from which values will be summed (column with sales values).
- ">31.05.2023" is the criterion that specifies to end the summing at the end of May 31, 2023.
Notes:
- Adjust the dates in the formula to the actual year of the data. The example above uses the year 2023.
- Make sure that dates in column A are actually formatted as dates, not as text, so Excel can interpret them correctly.
This solution will allow for efficiently calculating the sum of sales values for spring months, using functions adapted to the Polish version of Excel.
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