enter image description hereI need to make an auto-fill of values from adjacent cells in table to another non adjacent cells of another table, for example, I need to get the following:
Source values: C7,C8,C9 ...
Destination: G4, G7, G10 ...
Thanx
I'm curious about your use case for this. I also have questions:
Are the source and destination always ordered? Meaning the names appear in the same order in both? Are these both on the same sheet as in your example? Are there always 3 cells per name in the destination?
I can't think of a formula that would give the desired result, but here's an approach I would take.
Make sure your source values and destination are on separate sheets.
Create a helper column in your source value range numbering your rows of data 1...x
Copy cells 1...X and paste them directly below you last row of data two times. So you should see 1...X repeat twice.
Sort your helped column least to greatest - you should now have two empty rows between each row of data.
Copy the column of data you need and paste into your destination. Because of the empty rows it should preserve your spacing.
You can achieve this with VLOOKUP. Use this formula in the Destination table.
=VLOOKUP(G3,Source,2,FALSE)
G3 is the cell in which the name, e.g. "Mike", is written. In your sample this appears to be a merged cell. Note that in merged areas all cell content is always in the first cell. So, if G3:G5 are merged, nothing can be retrieved from G4 or G5 because all content is in G3.
Source is a named range of 3 rows and 2 columns, as per your example. If your source is a true table you can use its name. VLOOKUP requires that the name must be in the first column of the range you specify. You can also specify a hard range, if you don't like using names. In my example the Source range was $A$4:$B$6.
2 is the column in Source from which to return the result.
False specifies that you don't want an approximate match (but an exact one).
Of course, this method works in the direction opposite to your diagram. The formula is in H3 in my test sheet. This is because there are no formulas in Excel that write to cells they don't themselves occupy.
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I have thousands of entries for the same site names taken between different days. However not all row labels are identical. I just want to select all row labels that are shared among both spreadsheets based on the names contained in column A for example and copy them to a new sheet. Filtering and selecting wont work, theres thousands and different entries between the two. I just want to delete entries that are not shared among both spreadsheets.
I looked through other forums using vlookup but I am not sure i understand the syntax:
e.g. i looked at this forum: Matching two columns from two spreadsheets and grabbing data from one of the spreadsheets
it proposed this solution: =index(sheet2!B1:B3;match(sheet1!G1;sheet2!A1:A3;0)). So this solution join row from 2nd sheet to row first sheet. If column G 1st sheet and column A 2nd sheet are the same then you can use this to match. Place formula in column H 1st sheet. With this formula you will fetch data from column B 2nd sheet to column H 1st sheet.
I dont think this is the case since the positions of similar row values in both columns differ. I just want to know what labels are shared among both and delete entries that dont share those names
example of output
Yes vlookup is the key because if you lookup something in spreadsheet1:colA to see if it is in spreadsheet2:colA if it is not present you will get a null value. Then you can filter out these nulls to get only the list of rows which share the column A value in spreadsheet2. You will also need to repeat this in spreadsheet2.
For context, assuming the image you posted covers cells A1:C6, and your highlighted cells are A4:C5 then:
In sheet1 cell D3 put =VLOOKUP(A3, Sheet2!A:A, 1,0) and copy down for the rest of column D, and in sheet2 cell D3: =VLOOKUP(A3, Sheet1!A:A, 1,0)
IF the vlookup finds a match, this will give the exact same value in columnD which is present in both spreadsheets, otherwise it will give #N/A. Then you can filter those out.
(By the way the syntax for the sheet name depends on whether you have spaces in the name so Sheet1!A:A but 'Sheet 1'!A:A, I usually get these by highlighting them so excel does the work of naming the worksheet).
A side note, I would drag both worksheets into one file, you certainly can perform vlookups between different files, but this then relies on the exact file path so if you ever move either file, the vlookups will break and give you errors. I only ever vlookup within the same file.
Can someone help me write VBA function to get data from another worksheet using multiple filter?
Data looks something like this.
I want to write a function that extract the A1 or A2 or A3 value based on the dropdown I select. If I select A3 it should pick data from A3 column. My Filter criteria on other columns are Item, id and location. Column for Item, id and location are static. While column for A1, A2, A3 are dynamic. I want to put criteria on Ite, id and location. These are the three criteria and result should be from the fourth column. i.e. either A1 or A2 or A3 based on what I select.
I tried but couldn't figure out. Can someone help me on this, please?
You don't need VBA for this but you do need to make a few preparations. I will show here what I did. There are other ways and you can choose the way you prefer.
I created a table exactly as you posted. Instead of a table you can just create a named range or you can replace the names of either in the formulas with the range's coordinates. I didn't name the table but recommend that you do if you use a table. In my example the table's name is Table1.
Within the table I created a named range comprising the cells D1:F1. I called this range "Data" but any other name will do as well. You may also move the named range entirely elsewhere if you want different captions for the columns for one reason or another. As you will see, the names are insignificant they are used to create the numbers 1, 2 and 3 from the location where they are within the named range Data.
Now I created a validation drop-down referring to a List of =Data. The effect is that I have a drop-down with A1, A2 and A3 in it. I created this drop-down in A10 of a different sheet from the one on which I have Table1.
Now I used the following formulas to extract data from row 2 of the table.
=INDEX(Table1[Item],2)
=INDEX(Table1[Location],2) or =INDEX(Table1,2,3) and
=INDEX(Table1,2,3+MATCH(A10,Data,0))
Observe that every "2" in the above formulas refers to the 2nd row in the named range Table1. I didn't set up a range of that name but that is something Excel threw in when I created the table. However, you would like to pull data from other rows as well.
For that purpose you can use the ROW() function. This function returns the number of the row in which it resides. If it's in row 10 it will return 10, in row 11 it returns 11 etc. It's a counter. Therefore, if you entered my formulas in row 10 you can replace all the "2"s with Row()-8 and as you copy up or down you will get data from different rows, same columns.
=INDEX(Table1[Item],Row()-8)
=INDEX(Table1[Location],Row()-8) or =INDEX(Table1,Row()-8,3) and
=INDEX(Table1,Row()-8,3+MATCH(A10,Data,0))
If your first formula isn't in row 10 you must adjust the number to be deducted according to where your formula was entered.
Suppose I have a simple spreadsheet with 3 rows of data that I want to rank in separate columns. The example I will use is simple, but my actual dataset is 12k + rows. In this simple example, I want to use the RANK formula from Excel to do this. To rank the values in column Police, I'll use the formula =RANK(B2, B2:B11, 1), with B2:B11 being the range.
As I mentioned, my actual dataset has thousands of rows and many more columns to compare. Even in this example, I want a simple way to copy the formula to all of the other _RANK column cells. If I simply copy the cell to the other cells, +1 gets added to the cell value. This is what I want to happen, EXCEPT for the ending cell of the range.
As you can see above, this is incorrect. The formula gets set to =RANK(B11,B11:B20,1) for cell E11, when what I want is =RANK(B11,B11:B11,1). How can I easily copy this formula across multiple cells so that it is has the correct formula?
Placing $ before the cell references makes it static. Try changing your formula to Rank(B11, B$2:B$20,1). Coping this formula will only change those references which are not proceeded with $.
I thought this would be easy, but haven't figured it out on my own or found an existing answer online.
I have a worksheet set up to create charts from the contents of certain cells in a table. I'd like to be able to point one cell to a value in another worksheet and have all the related cell populate with the values using the formula in the one cell as an address reference.
For example, if I put the formula ='Source Data'!G19 in cell E3, I would like cell E4 below it to act like it has the formula ='Source Data'!G20 (one row below in the Source Data worksheet) and populate that value while cell F3 to the right would act like it had the formula ='Source Data'!H20 in it. So the new worksheet would just mirror the table of data from the Source Data worksheet for as many columns or rows as I need.
I'd tried to figure this out with offset, indirect, match and address functions, but have failed.
It is important to note that the formula needs to be able to identify the actual cell address, not just match the value from the formula because the same values show up multiple times in the Source Data worksheet.
Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.
Here's my approach:
I have a workbook with 2 spreadsheets Source Data and Results, on Source Data, I have the "Static" table that contains all my values from A1 to D12(This can be any number of cells, as long as you use an equal range in the Results sheet).
On Results, Cell A1 is reserved for the "guide" cell from Source Data, written in the following format: ''Source Data'!A1 (note the two single quotes at the begging). I chose to start at Cell B2 on the Results sheet, you can switch the formula however you like.
The desired result is achieved by using the following formula on B2:
=IF(CELL("contents",OFFSET(INDIRECT($A$1),ROW(B2)-2,COLUMN(B2)-2))<>0,CELL("contents",OFFSET(INDIRECT($A$1),ROW(B2)-2,COLUMN(B2)-2)),"")
then drag down and to the right the same number of maximum cells that exist on Source Data and the result will adjust accordingly.
I prepared a Google Sheets document with all of the information.
been looking for quite a while now, due lack of distinctive terminology couldn't find any solution, so maybe the experts out here can help.
So I got this table of 300+ collumns that are populated like this
row 1 Header/Name.
row 2 Range formula ment to be in the "Refers to" input area when a "New Name" for a range is created.
row 3/22 The information used in the range formula.
To use the range formula's in a data validation on another sheet I need to Name these ranges. If I manually enter a "New Name" I can copy the range formula from row 2 into the "refers to" input area, only with 300 columns that would be a long day of labor. That's when I found out about the CRTL+SHIFT+F3 combo which makes it possible to create a lot of named ranges at once based on a header/name and selection. Unfortunately this uses the location of selection as the source and in my case it should be the formula inside the locations's cell which would have to be the source...
So is there a way to use the "Create Names From Selection" tool that uses a formula inside a cell as the source instead of the location?
here's an image to help describe the problem
You should be able to solve this problem with 1 named range for every validation (plus 2 additional to make the formula less complicated).
The first named range (all_headers) should be defined as:
=OFFSET('C'!$A$1,0,0,1,COUNTA('C'!$1:$1))
It returns a range with the headers (product names or codes) from the C sheet. We assume that the first column is A and there are no empty columns between them.
Next we need to choose the right column. Here it gets a little tricky. In the row where you want to validate colors, you need to have exactly the same product name or code that is used in the C sheet headers. If this information is in cell A2, you should:
select the cell in the same row and in the column where the color validation is supposed to be (for example B2)
define new named range col_header with the following formula:
=INDEX(all_headers,1,MATCH(A2,all_headers,0))
The above dynamic named range is relative, that's why selecting the proper cell before defining it is very important.
The last step is to define named range val_list with reference to the list of colors from the chosen column:
=OFFSET(col_header,2,0,COUNTA(OFFSET(col_header,2,0,50,1)),1)
You mentioned that the second row does not contain data, that's why there is 2 parameter twice in the formula. If you remove it, use 1 instead. 50 is the maximum number of colors - you can adjust it.
Now you can use val_list for validation in any cell. It should give you the right list if the cell on the left contains a valid product name/code from the C sheet header.