I need to get a list of unique values from few columns. The data looks like this:
I tried using Unique but it only gives me copy of the list. These 4 lists are already unique values found in another sheet.
If getting unique from 4 columns is impossible, how would I go around combining these 4 columns but instead merging data from a row to 1 cell I'd like to append that one column to have one city per row (so add more rows).
Another idea I had - pulling data from multiple sheets into 1 row, but as it's an automated report, number of towns in each sheet changes every time, so can't use specific cell locations.
You can use the following formula (entered into cell F2 and assuming your data is in range A1:D5)
=IFERROR(LOOKUP("zzzzz",INDEX(IF(COUNTIF(F$1:F1,A$2:D$5),0,A$2:D$5),MIN(IF(COUNTIF(F$1:F1,A$2:D$5),"",ROW(A$2:D$5)-ROW(A$2)+1)),0)),"")
As it is an array formula it needs to be entered using Ctrl+Shift+Enter and copied down until there are blank cells
It does not work in my case, in calc (LibreOffice) that i have exactly the same problem. To extract unique values from multiple columns with text, with blank spaces. I have tried a lot of formulas with no success...
What worked for me - I dont know why this worked for me!
A, B, and C contains text from the 2nd row and onwards. Formula is put on D2 cell as Array formula.
=IFERROR(IFERROR(IFERROR(
INDEX($A$2:$A$20; MATCH(0; COUNTIF($D$1:D1; $A$2:$A$20)+($A$2:$A$20=""); 0));
INDEX($B$2:$B$7; MATCH(0; COUNTIF($D$1:D1; $B$2:$B$7)+($B$2:$B$7=""); 0))
);
INDEX($C$2:$C$12; MATCH(0; COUNTIF($D$1:D1; $C$2:$C$12)+($C$2:$C$12=""); 0))
);
"")
Found here
I have two sheets. The first (Sheet 1) with a column of lookups and the second (Sheet 2) with a column of lookups and a column of values.
Sheet 2 includes many more observations than Sheet 1, but I only care about the data from the observations listed in Sheet 1.
I want to get a sum of all the values in Sheet 2 matching all the lookups in Sheet 1 without have to write a chain of a few hundred SUMIF statements.
I could really use your help.
Thanks!!
Here's how you could do it without a helper column:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF(Sheet2!$A:$A,Sheet1!$A$2:$A$4,Sheet2!$B:$B))
Use a helper column in sheet 1:
Use the following formula in B3:
=SUMIF(Sheet2!A:A,A3,Sheet2!B:B)
And populate down
Then SUM these values
Yes, with an array formula, but it's not still perfect:
Let's say your data looks like this (copied your image):
You can use this array formula:
=SUM(IF($D$2:$D$10={1;2;3};$E$2:$E$10))
Because this is an array formula it must entered pressing
CTRL+ENTER+SHIFT or it won't work!
Notice the lookup values are the numbers between {...} in the formula.
Hope you can adap this to your needs.
In large dataset - 250 rows and 1000 columns I need to compare each value in cell with each other in one column and iterate over all column. Heres simplified example of source data:
And this is what I need (formatting not necessary and 2 empty rows not necessary) - if match if found "1" is produced, if no match "2" is produced, if one or both were N/A - "3" is produced:
Comparison should only be "one sided" for example Terry and Joey is the same as Joey and Terry, thus further comparison of already compared pairs is not needed.
Is it possible to do this in Excel 2016 or are there better tools for this?
My thanks to all.
This alternative is a bit complex, but we all solve problems like this differently. If it helps you, please feel free to use it. If not, I can understand since some of these techniques are not particularly common and the resulting formula is a bit unreadable. I did it this way so that I would be able to organize the rows better and read the matching/unmatching indicators more easily. I started by creating a helper column rather than repeat the rows for each individual so that each row shows the two names being compared. This is the formula I used to compare using B8's information is:
=IF(OR(INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A",INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A"),3,IF(INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)<>INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE),2,1))
I am going to try to explain the formula I used as follows:
Without using the helper column, the basic formula for cell B8 is this:
=IF(OR(B$2="N/A",B3="N/A"),3,IF(B$2<>B3,2,1))
and this would work for the range B8:H11. However, when I skip down to B13, the formula would need to change to:
=IF(OR(B$3="N/A",B4="N/A"),3,IF(B$3<>B4,2,1))
and this would work for the range B13:H15. Likewise B17, and B20 would be:
=IF(OR(B$4="N/A",B5="N/A"),3,IF(B$4<>B5,2,1))
=IF(OR(B$5="N/A",B6="N/A"),3,IF(B$5<>B6,2,1))
for their respective ranges. I shy away from formulas where I have to remember what I need to change for each section (heaven forbid I should write any notes or read them if I did).
In order to do this, I used the person column (A) and my helper column (I) to determine which rows to compare.
MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0)
gives the row of the person value in the Chart from A1:H6 in the comparison
MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0)
gives the row of the helper value in the Chart from A1:H6 in the comparison
Since the data being compared is always in the same column, I just use COLUMN() to determine which column to use.
In cell B8, MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0) will tell me it is row 2 and MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0) will tell me it is row 3. Thus, I want to use the values in Row 2, Column 2 compared against Row 3, Column 2.
To tell Excel to compare Row 2, Column 2 against Row 3, Column 2 is fairly simple, but creating a formula that you can copy from cell to cell without having to modify it each time is not as easy, since each section is a bit different and there could be blank rows in between sections. What I did was to use indirect cell notation using "R1C1" syntax rather than the more common "A1" cell referencing.
In other words in column B8 this:
INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)
gives the value in Row 2 (for Terry), Column 2 and
INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)
gives the value in Row 3 (for Joey), Column 2 and
In both of the above, I am concatenating and R and a C to the numbers returned by the MATCH() and COLUMN() functions and using the FALSE parameter to tell Excel to treat the concatenated result as "R1C1" notation. In other words, this:
OR(INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($I8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A",INDIRECT("R"&MATCH($A8,$A$1:$A$6,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A")
translates to this:
OR(R2C2="N/A",R3C2="N/A")
I realize that the helper column is a burden you did not ask for and I realize that the formula is overly complicated, but I can freely copy this formula to any column that has the two names and it will do a comparison for that day of the week.
Here is a picture of what I am describing:
Added comments
Just to carry the above a bit further, suppose you had a Sheet1 which had the rows of data to be compared and suppose this were limited to 250 rows with the same 7 columns (rather than 1000). I could create another sheet similar to the above along with another helper cell (I put it in A1) to automatically populate the person column and the helper column like this:
New Helper Cell value: 1 (essentially saying to start at the top). This would populate Cell A2 with the following formula:
=IFERROR(IF(INDEX(Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT($A$1,3)+ROW()))=0,"",INDEX(Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT($A$1,3)+ROW()))),"")
Basically this is just this formula:
=INDEX(Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT($A$1,3)+ROW()))
but is checking first to see if it results in zero and then is replacing it with blanks if it is an error. Copying this cell down Column A will populate that column with the names starting at the first row after the data row specified by A. If you have more headings or other data you would need to add additional amountst to the +ROW() portion in both occurrences in the formula. Column I gets populated siimilarly with this:
=IF(A2="","",INDEX(Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,NUMBERVALUE(LEFT($A$1,3)+1)))
However, this value does not vary from row to row.
Now that the helper columns are populated, you can populate the formula a bit differently from the above (which had used the same sheet) for example in B2:
=IF($A2="","",IF(OR(INDIRECT("Sheet1!R"&MATCH($I2,Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A",INDIRECT("Sheet1!R"&MATCH($A2,Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)="N/A"),3,IF(INDIRECT("Sheet1!R"&MATCH($I2,Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)<>INDIRECT("Sheet1!R"&MATCH($A2,Sheet1!$A$1:$A$250,0)&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE),2,1)))
The main difference from the first formula is the off sheet references to "Sheet1" that were added and the extension of the formula to cover 250 rows.
Here is a picture with Cell A1 set to 1:
Here is a picture with Cell A1 set to 3:
Using this, your Sheet1 values remain where they are and you can create a generic comparison sheet to compare the values of various rows of Sheet1. These can be dynamically built by changing the value in A1 or you can create dozens of similar sheets, each differing by the value in A1.
Not sure if any of this makes sense.
Good Luck
Just use a function like this(exemple for cell B4):
=IF(B3=B2;1;IF(B3="N/A";3;2))
Print of it working
Do it for each line and just drag it from the begining to the end.
EDIT: You should do an or in the 2nd if to make surre neither is "N/A"
=IF(OR(B3="N/A";B2="N/A";3;IF(B3=B2);1;2))
I am trying to come up with a formula that possibly uses the sumproduct function combined with another function.
Let me start by explaining what I have and what I want. If I have a list of 3 product numbers or more in a column, I would like excel to find the product numbers in 2 different possible columns and if they are listed there, I would like excel to multiply and sum.
I am currently using this formula:
=SUM(SUMPRODUCT(($B$27:$B$46='Lists for Estimates'!K2)*($E$27:$E$46*$A$27:$A$46))
+SUM(SUMPRODUCT(($F$27:$F$46='Lists for Estimates'!K2)*($I$27:$I$46*$A$27:$A$46)))
+SUM(SUMPRODUCT(($B$27:$B$46='Lists for Estimates'!K3)*($E$27:$E$46*$A$27:$A$46))
+SUM(SUMPRODUCT(($F$27:$F$46='Lists for Estimates'!K3)*($I$27:$I$46*$A$27:$A$46)))))
The issue with this is I have to continue to add to the formula if I add more to "Lists for Estimates." I would like to change the formula from 'List for Estimates'!K3 and K2 to search the entire column.
Thank you in advance!
Create a new column on your data sheet that multiplies the A and E columns together (so the formula doesn't have to do it), and then use this formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF($B$27:$B$46,'Lists for Estimates'!$K$2:$K$3,$F$27:$F$46))
Where column F contains the multiplied values. Adjust column F to suit your actual data. The multiplied value column can be hidden if preferred, or even put on a different worksheet.
I have two sheets. Sheet1 has a list of products and Sheet2 has a list of products and their location. Since the product can be in multiple locations, there are a good amount of duplicates in Sheet2.
There are 26,000 products. I have assigned each product a number in Sheet1, 1-26,000. Is there a way for me to assign each number to the correct product in Sheet2?
This is a example of what I need:
The top table would be Sheet1 and the bottom table would be Sheet2, the one with duplicates.
This is what they look like right now:
Sheet1:
Sheet2:
Please let me know if I did not explain this well enough. I appreciate your help!
copy your column A in sheet 1 to column c
Then in your sheet 2 column C row 2, use =vlookup(B2,'sheet1'!B:C,2,0)
(if your first item is in B2)
Drag your formula down and it should work.
Use VLOOKUP or the INDEX MATCH combo formulas in the second sheet to locate the ITEM IDs in the first worksheet
If you're Item ID's are sorted the way you illustrate it, then you can simply use an IF formula:
For example you have a data as shown:
Enter this formula in A2:
=IF(B2=B1,IF(ISNUMBER(A1),A1,1),IF(ISNUMBER(A1),A1+1,1))
Above formula will give you what you've described.
Again, your items should be sorted so that same Item ID are in order.