My father has, in one of his investigations for the doctorate compiled a series of Excel databases of the baptisms that took place in the town of LoÃ:censor:za in northeastern Puerto Rico during the 19th century. Its every five years.
He needs to unite them all in a single Excel workbook, so as to make a graph defining the amout of births, male and female, black, white, slave, and so on every five years and its growth.
And I bring the totals of the first year in question, 1865. I get all the total births for that year pasted into the first row. There's like a hundred, and then divided by category, like sex, skin color, slave or free, and such.
I then try to paste into the second row the values for the year of 1870. There's like 60 births there, divided by category. But once I paste them, I get all those numbers of the year of 1870 turned down to zero! And I haven't yet found a way to figure it out. And they expect me to figure it out (When you live with two parents that need to be walked-through Microsoft Word, thats what you get). And I am not too good about Excel.
Anyone know how to figure this one out?
He needs to unite them all in a single Excel workbook, so as to make a graph defining the amout of births, male and female, black, white, slave, and so on every five years and its growth.
And I bring the totals of the first year in question, 1865. I get all the total births for that year pasted into the first row. There's like a hundred, and then divided by category, like sex, skin color, slave or free, and such.
I then try to paste into the second row the values for the year of 1870. There's like 60 births there, divided by category. But once I paste them, I get all those numbers of the year of 1870 turned down to zero! And I haven't yet found a way to figure it out. And they expect me to figure it out (When you live with two parents that need to be walked-through Microsoft Word, thats what you get). And I am not too good about Excel.
Anyone know how to figure this one out?
