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Are you struggling to effectively track your clinical hours in Google Sheets? You’re not alone. Many students face the challenge of categorizing hours as direct or indirect while maintaining accurate totals for each category. The good news is that with a few strategic steps, you can easily enhance your spreadsheet. By adding a dropdown menu for category selection and utilizing formulas to sum hours separately, you’ll gain clear insights into your progress.

I am trying to make a google sheet where I am tracking clinical hours for my masters program. I have a column that is a drop down menu with two different categories in column B (direct and indirect). I also have a column that calculates the amount of hours from row D and E. I want to find a way keep track of each category ie direct and indirect separately. Essentially I want to find a way to add amount of hours from column F for solely direct and indirect.

Not sure if this is something that can be done, but my ideal way would be to have a separate cell outside of the table that just adds the hours together when I put in more information in a row.

Not sure if its important but column F is:

=IF(ISBLANK(D2),"",IF(ISBLANK(E2),(NOW()-TODAY()-D2)*24,(E2-D2)*24))

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