Data Consolidation

[Johnny1496]

I have a large list (>2000 entries) which contains about 60 different
categories. Right now, I have it listed like this:

Category A - Value 1
Category A - Value 2
Category A - Value 3
Category B - Value 1
.... etc.

Is there a nice way to consolidate this so that I have:

Category A - Sum of all A Values
Category B - Sum of all B Values
...etc?

 

[Bob Umlas]

Pivot table

 

[Johnny1496]

I have had a lot of trouble figuring out how to use pivot tables. is there a
tutorial you can suggest?

Thanks

 

[Ed Ferrero]

I have had a lot of trouble figuring out how to use pivot tables. is there

a
tutorial you can suggest?

Try http://www.edferrero.com/ExcelTutorials/tabid/54/Default.aspx

Has a section on using Pivot Tables for data consolidation.

Ed Ferrero
www.edferrero.com