Im currently figuring out how to write "&" in a formula so that VBA recognizes it as a string and not as the &-operator.
My formula looks like this:
"=AVERAGEIF(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4],"">""&0.5*MAX(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4]))"
But it should look something like this, as I want to use the variable z instead of 0.5
"=AVERAGEIF(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4],"">"" & Chr(34)& Chr(38) & Chr(34)& z & *MAX(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4]))"
As you see I already tried to write the "" and the & as ASCII but it seems that even this doenst work.
Thanks in advance for your help!
EDIT: The result should look like this:
=AVERAGEIF(C31:C6413;">"&0.5*MAX(C31:C6413))
EDIT: will post another question with the whole code. See here
I wouldn't use Chr(34) for " and Chr(38) for &, they're unnecessary indirection making the code harder to reason about. & doesn't need escaping, and to have a " literal inside a string you escape it by doubling it up, so """" is a string containing a single " character.
Concatenating long strings with escaped double-quotes can be a frustrating experience... what if we broke down the steps, and added a bit of space around operators?
The cognitive load is immediately reduced, and any error in the logic is much easier to spot:
Dim avgSourceRangePart As String
avgSourceRangePart = "RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4]"
Dim maxPart As String
maxPart = "MAX(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4])"
Dim avgConditionPart As String
avgConditionPart = """>"" & " & z & " * " & maxPart & ")"
Now the final concatenation looks like this:
"=AVERAGEIF(" & avgSourceRangePart & "; " & avgConditionPart ")"
This should be what you're looking for:
"=AVERAGEIF(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4],"">"" &" & z & "*MAX(RC[-4]:R[" & Total & "]C[-4]))"
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I have the following formula that I want to insert into a cell but it has multiple double quotes and I can't seem to make it work. There is plenty of solutions on the web but most have 1 or 2 sets of double quotes. I tried double quotes on all double quotes but it gives me a runtime error 438 object doesn't support this property
Here is the formula that I want to insert:
="Closing Costs" & " Current Buffer" & " " &TEXT('Closing Costs'!D32,"$ 0")
Here is the code that is not working:
ActiveSheet.Range("F18").Value = "=""Closing Costs"" & ""
Current Buffer"" & "" "" &TEXT('Closing Costs'!D32,""$ 0"")"
The following should work (all on one line):
ActiveSheet.Range("F18").Value = "=""Closing Costs"" & "" Current Buffer"" & "" "" &TEXT('Closing Costs'!D32,""$ 0"")"
It looks the same as your sample - but perhaps looks here are deceptive.
Using the chr() command can be helpful in these scenarios. chr(34) returns a double quote character, so the below should do the trick.
ActiveSheet.Range("F18").Value = "=" & chr(34) & "Closing Costs Current Buffer" & chr(34) & " " & chr(34) & TEXT('Closing Costs'!D32," & chr(34) & "$ 0" & chr(34) & ")"
It’s a little bit longer, but I find using chr(34) to be a little easy to determine quotation placement.
I hope you're all doing well!
A quick but tricky question (at least for me)
I have a code that interpolates values according to dates. Basically I want to insert the interpolation value to a cell in the main workbook in the sheet "Deals".
BInterpol is a function that works with a program installed in my computer. In the function, I take dates( D4:D18) linked to values (E4:E18), the following argument is the date that is located in another workbook and sheet and then linear is the method of interpolation. When I write the code below, it gives me Expected end of statement error and it highlights Linear. Any idea what needs to be change so it works ? (I want to make so that the formula is written in the cell needed so the interpolation is done there)
wb2.Sheets("Deals ").Range("V" & x).Value = "=BInterpol('INTERP'!D4:D18,'INTERP'!E4:E18," & wb1.Sheets("New").Range( "I" & j) & " , " Linear " )"
Try with .Formula and concatenate the Linear variable to the string with & as mentioned in the comments:
wb2.Sheets("Deals MTL").Range("V" & x).Formula = "=BInterpol('OIS INTERP'!D4:D18,'OIS INTERP'!E4:E18," & wb1.Sheets("NewTrades").Range( "I" & j) & "," & Linear ")"
Depending on what exactly is Range("I" & j) you may be interested in getting its address and not its value:
wb2.Sheets("Deals MTL").Range("V" & x).Formula = "=BInterpol('OIS INTERP'!D4:D18,'OIS INTERP'!E4:E18," & _
wb1.Sheets("NewTrades").Range("I" & j).Address & _
"," & Linear ")"
Nevermind, got it !
wb2.Sheets("Deals").Range("V" & x).Value = "=BInterpol('INTERP'!D4:D18,'INTERP'!E4:E18," & wb1.Sheets("New").Range( "I" & j) & " , "**"** Linear **"**" )"
The Linear needed two pairs of " for some reason ( don't know why, but that solved it.
I am quite new to VBA so I am sorry if my question might seems very trivial.
I would love to write a function in VBA which helps to estimate weighted average rate (for loan portfolio, for instance). I wrote the following VBA code:
Function WAIRS(Amount As Range, InterestRate As Range, MatchRange As Range, Match1)
WAIRS = Evaluate("=SUMPRODUCT(--(""" & MatchRange & """ = """ & Match1 & """),""" & Amount & """, """ & InterestRate & """)") /Application.WorksheetFunction.SumIfs(Amount, MatchRange, Match1)
End Function
The problem is that when I run this function in Excel by adding respective function criterias I get an "#VALUE#". I have tried a lot but cannot find out what is wrong. I Would highly appreciate if you can help me.
Thank you in advance.
Best,
Jeyhun
The string you build for Evaluate should (in this case) not include literal double quotes. Instead of quoting the result of a range value
"""" & MatchRange & """"
...you should retrieve the address notation of that range, and use that without wrapping it in quotes:
MatchRange.Address()
If you apply that consistently, it would make the Evaluate part of the formula look like this:
"=SUMPRODUCT(--(" & MatchRange.Address() & " = " & Match1.Address() & "), " & _
Amount.Address() & ", " & InterestRate.Address() & ")"
When range is another sheet:
The above will not work if your ranges are on another sheet. In that case, I would suggest to create this function:
Public Function fullAddr(range As Range)
fullAddr = "'" & range.Parent.Name & "'!" & _
range.Address(External:=False)
End Function
And then in your formula:
"=SUMPRODUCT(--(" & fullAddr(MatchRange) & " = " & fullAddr(Match1) & "), " & _
fullAddr(Amount) & ", " & fullAddr(InterestRate) & ")"
I've searched extensively for the answer to my question and I'm at an impasse.
I'm trying to pass a formula to excel with applescript. The problem is the quotes around the spaces that I want to place between fields. I've used "\" to escape the quotes but it throws an error. To make it more complicated the row number is a variable "i". Here is the formula in excel format:
=CONCATENATE(A2," ",B2," ",C2," ",D2)
Here is the formula in applescript-ese (works but does not produce spaces in data):
set rowCount to (((count of rows of used range of active sheet)) + 1)
repeat with i from rowCount to 2 by -1
set formula of row i of column 15 to "=CONCATENATE(A" & i & "," & ",B" & i & "," & ",C" & i & "," & ",D" & i & ")"
Here is the formula with escaped quotes to add the spaces (gives error):
set formula of row i of column 15 to"=CONCATENATE(A" & i & ","\" \" & ",B" & i & ","\" \" & ",C" & i & ","\" \" & ",D" & i & ")"
I get a sytax error on the first slash; Expected end of line etc. but found unknown token. I have a feeling I'm either missing a few sets of double quotes or I'm making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Any ideas? Should I be going about this differently?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
Taking another look at it I think you have too many quotes when you use the \ character to escape the double quote. Instead of ","\" \" & ",B" try ",\" \",B" so your line would look like this:
set formula of row i of column 15 to "=CONCATENATE(A" & i & ",\" \",B" & i & ",\" \",C" & i & ",\" \",D" & i & ")"
In excel VBA you can double quote a double quote to get it to show up in a string like this:
"=CONCATENATE(A" & i & "," & """ """ & ",B" & i & "," & """ """ & ",C" & i & "," & """ """ & ",D" & i & ")"
Or you can try using ascii character for space which is Chr(32)
I am creating a formula to count based upon 2 conditions. My logic is wrong - again.
When I (manually) enter enter code the summation formula (COUNTIFS) into correct cell itself, it sums correctly:
COUNTIFS(E4:E1362,"Requirement",S4:S1362, "<>4")
When I execute the following code line, I do not get any errors, but instead, all the sums are zero.
Range("G" & Start(groups) - 1).Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E" & Start(groups) & ":E" & Finish(groups) & "," & "Requirement" & ",S" & Start(groups) & ":S" & Finish(groups) & "," & Chr(34) & "<>4" & Chr(34) & ")"
I realized that the COUNTIFS was comparing the value in column S to the string "<>4". And none of the cells contain that string. This is why all my values were zero. I do not want the comparison to be against that string. I want the comparison to be column S value NOT equal to 4.
So, I changed the line to (and variations to get it to work):
Range("G" & Start(groups) - 1).Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E" & Start(groups) & ":E" & Finish(groups) & "," & "Requirement" & ",S" & Start(groups) & ":S" & Finish(groups) & "," & Chr(34) & "<>" & Chr(34) & "4)"
So, I am at a loss. (1) I manually enter the formula and it works. (2) I build it in VBA, and it does not sum correctly. (3) I look up how to do build the formula correctly, and I get errors time and time again. It seems like the only way to get this to work is to keep the quotes within quotes, but I don't want to compare against the string.
Does this make sense? I'm not liking my worksheet anymore. It is no longer any fun at all. :(
Thank you so much.
I think all the Chr(34) are getting in the way of you viewing your formula correctly. try using "" to make the quote for the formula.
.Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E4:E1362,""Requirement"",S4:S1362,""<>4"")"
with your Start and Finish functions, that would change the formula to:
.Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E" & Start(groups) & ":E" & Finish(groups) & _
",""Requirement"",S" & Start(groups) & ":S" & Finish(groups) & ",""<>4"")"
Well, One of the problem I found there was quite simple, instead using "," you must use ";".
It depends on the version you used, some using "," and some others using ";". you can just try it, I hope it solved your problem.
and second one "Requirement" there, I think you should use double quote instead.
and for your case To meet This condition:
COUNTIFS(E4:E1362,"Requirement",S4:S1362, "<>4")
Use This:
"=COUNTIF(E" & Start(groups) & ":" & "E" & Finish(groups) & "," & """Requirement""" & "," & "S" & Start(groups) & ":" & "S" & Finish(groups) & "," & """<>4"")"
I think it Should Work (if I don't miss any Quotes thought).
... Try removing the chr(34) and the extra quotations - It should look exactly like the "Requirement" criteria:
Range("G" & Start(groups) - 1).Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E" & Start(groups) & ":E" & Finish(groups) & ",""Requirement"",S" & Start(groups) & ":S" & Finish(groups) & ",""<>4"")"
After running a quick test with your initial code
Range("G1").Formula = "=COUNTIFS(E1" & ":E20" & "," & "Requirement" & ",S1" & ":S20" & "," & Chr(34) & "<>4" & Chr(34) & ")"
Modified slightly to account for your groups variable cell G1 ends up with the following formula:
=COUNTIFS(E1:E20,requirement,S1:S20,"<>4")
which when tested works absolutely fine for your second if statement S1:S20,"<>4".
I would guess that the problem lies with your first statement. What is in your requirement range and what data are you trying to match with.
I set up the requirement named range to be cell D5, I entered a 5 in there and the formula would increment each time I added an extra 5 to the range E1:E20.
I then started typing 4's into the range S1:s20 and this decreased my count.
edit
The last thing that I can suggest is to add in a helper column in column F that evaluates row to see if it matches the requirement condition, then it would be a simple matter of making your formula:
=COUNTIFS(F1:F20,TRUE,S1:S20,"<>4")