To use an example from the book (pg.490), say I wanted to see the difference between Argentina and Aruba in terms of total orders. How do I do this? What I really am trying to do is see the difference between a portfolio and its peer by maturity bucket and quality rating. For example, portfolio x has a weight of 4.5% in AAA, 0-10 yr maturity and x's peer has 3.75%. So for that section of the crosstab, I want to see 0.75%. In the following columns I want to see the remaining quality buckets and the rows would show me the remaining maturities. Let's say there are 20 portfolio/peer combinations for which I only want to see the difference between each combination in the crosstab.

 

I guess I am confused because the crosstab does all my grouping & summarizing for me based on various if statements I've created. How to sum that information for the portfolio and sum it for the peer and then find the difference eludes me.

 

I hope you understand what I'm asking and apologize if this is a blatantly obvious question. I am 3 days into using Crystal. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.