Spreadsheet in appleworks

i am quite a beginner at appleworks and i have been trying to do some simple adding up in the spreadsheet section of my meagre bank accounts. can anyone give me simple instruction on adding and subtracting? i must have some kind of mental block because i don't know whether to do it horizontally or vertically and does it make any difference?
thanks to anyone who tries to help
anne

Anne
First the easy part, you can add(or subtract) across rows or up and down columns, it doesn’t make any difference. Actually, you can add the contents of any two cells, no matter which row, or which column they are in.
Try copying this data into a spreadsheet and "playing around" with the numbers
Into cells A1,B1 and C1 type some numbers
Don’t type any of the quotation marks
Into D1 type “=A1+B1” and press the return key
Into E4 type “=sum(“ then click on cells A1, A2 and A3 then type “)” and press return.
Into H7 type "=E4-A1"
Hope this gets you started.
Dave

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Leaving aside any discussion of the actual test design, here's a rundown of how to make the spreadsheet do (most of) what you want it to do.
What I want the spreadsheet to do is to accept the data from meter 1 and meter 2 in side by side columns of cells. I next want the spreadsheet to compare the 2 bG values obtained from the same blood sample with these meters to one another and then divide the smaller value by the larger value to determine the amount in percent that one meter is higher or lower than the other.
This division (r/R) compares the smaller value (r) to the larger (R) and reports the result as a fraction.
eg. 75/100 = 0.75 The smaller reading is 75% of the larger reading, or the smaller reading is 25% lower than the higher reading.
But that does not mean the higher reading is 25% higher than the lower. That percentage is given by comparing the larger reading to the smaller (R/r). For the same pair of readings:
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This is comparison is complicated by the fact that meter 1 will sometimes return the higher of the two readings, and at other times meter 2 will be higher. Thus it's not a simple matter of asking the spreadsheet to divide the result of meter 1 by the result of meter 2 each and every time or vice versa.
Next on the agenda I want the spreadsheet to put the result obtained by the above calculation in one or the other of two additional columns of cells. In other words the spreadsheet will compare the value of meter 1 to meter 2, divide the smaller value by the larger value to determine percentage, and finally place the result obtained in one of two additional columns of cells. One of these additional columns of cells would be labeled Meter 1 Higher and the other would be labeled Meter 2 higher.
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Niel's and Barry's report the percentage by which the higher reading is higher than the lower.
Brie's and Terry's report the percentage by which the lower reading is lower than the higher.
All put the results into the same cell (column) without regard to which reading is highest. (Barry's set includes labels to identify the higher meter.)
Here's mine again, with revisions to place the results into separate columns:
Labels in Row 2: C2: Meter A, D2: Meter B, E2: A Higher, F2: B Higher
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E3: =IF(C3<D3,"",C3/D3-1) Set the Number Format of this cell to percent.
F3: =IF(D3<C3,"",D3/C3-1) "
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Note2: As written, the formulas will return a #DIV/0! error if no results have been entered on that line. The version below suppresses any results until readings have been entered in column D.
E3: =IF(D3,IF(C3<D3,"",C3/D3-1),"") Set the Number Format of this cell to percent.
F3: =IF(D3,IF(D3<C3,"",D3/C3-1),"") "
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The default size of an AppleWorks spreadsheet is 40 columns by 500 rows. Go Format > Document... to increase the number of rows to 1050 to allow room for 'roughly 1000 tests.'
For 1000 tests, fill the formulas above down through rows 3..1002 (aasumed in examples below).
Next I want the spreadsheet to examine all the cells in which meter 1 returned the higher result and perform the following calculations:
lowest percentage over meter 2 obtained
highest percentage " "
The second is easy: =MAX(E3..E1002)
Place the formula where you want this result reported.
The first runs into a problem: empty cells, or those with non numeric data are evaluated numerically as "0" by the MIN() function. There is a workaround.
Use an empty column to the right of the active part of the spreadsheet. (I've arbitrarily chosen column M)
M3: =IF(E3>0,E3,1000)
Fill down M3..M1002
This copies all greater than zero values into column M, and inserts a value of 1000 wherever the value in column E is 0.
The minimum value in this column (which is also the non-zero minimum of column E) is given by:
=MIN(M3..M1002)
Place the formula where you want this result reported.
number of identical readings obtained
I'm assuming you mean 'identical differences' in terms of percent higher.
There are a couple of difficulties here:
1. AppleWorks does not include a MODE() function which would extract the number appearing with the greatest frequency.
2. What constitutes "identical" depends on the (mathematical) precision of the results. AppleWorks can display results to 11 significant places (eg. 12.345678901), and actually does the calculations to a few more places than that. Given that precision, many results that are not significantly different willl not be identified as "identical."
Probably doable, but more detail needed before jumping in.
average percentage " "
average deviation
Not sure what you're asking with these. Can you elaborate?
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Peter wrote:
"I have built a spreadsheet in AppleWorks and in one column /cel when I put in a long number, ( it's an account number 31003913249809 ), the cel will not accept it as such. It changes some of the numbers to letters and / or other numbers, and drops some numbers."
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I've placed single quotes around the word 'number', because for mathematical purposes an account number, like a UPC or an ISBN, is really a label, not a number. It's not used for any calculations beyond the comparisons used in sorting. As a label, it should be entered as text (in the various ways suggested by Peggy).
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