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Custom Data Grouping in Excel or Access

Hamed Hesham

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Hi Everybody!
This is my first post, although I have been a silent observer for a very long time :)

So here is the issue. I have an extremely large dataset for customers (>1 million) in a text file. The data is structure so each individual customer sits in one row and the columns show variables (for ex. Revenues and Usage)

What I would like to do is group the customers in brackets (for ex. those whose revenues fall between 1-25, 25-50,50-200, 200-500, 500+). I know this can be done with pivot tables but the grouping is not customizable (i.e has to be in X units).

I would normally do this using a long IF statement in excel, but since this is not an option, is there a way to achieve this in Excel, Access or Business Objects?
 
Good day Hesham and welcome to the forum

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I have an extremely large dataset for customers (>1 million) in a text file.

In a TEXT file....... This would work better in Access or similar with more control through a user form.
By splitting the front end and back end so that users have no access to the raw data as they do with Excel and you will have better control over what can and cannot be imputed to the database.

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