I am just trying to merge two Excels using VLOOKUP function as it is explained on Microsoft Office documentation.
Using Microsoft Excel 2019, after typing = I can't see the function, and even I introduce the formula manually, I get an error that is not ok. I am just using:
=VLOOKUP(A2,list,5,FALSE)
Where the variable list is just the selection on the second sheet where it has to find for the data. Already checked this solution with no result. Any advice?
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I have searched the internet and Stack Overflow, but couldn't find an answer to my problem.
I defined a UDF in Excel, it's saved in a module in an .xlam Add-In. The UDF works perfectly fine on my computer. Now I'm trying to use the workbook which uses the UDF on another computer (in a different language) with the same .xlam Add-In active. However Excel suddenly references the entire path to the add-in file as an "absolute path" instead of only showing the function name itself. The result is a #NAME? error because Excel doesn't find the UDF.
How I have written the VBA Code
How it should look
How it looks on another computer
Has anyone had this issue and found a solution for it? I could try to find a workaround without the UDF function but I'd prefer that it works this way. Another time the situation might be more complex ...
The problem with your UDF is the location of the .xlam file. You can find information on dealing with that by following the link in the comments above provided by Christofer Weber.
Having said that, I think it may be more beneficial for you to use the built-in formula that excel has for this which is EOMONTH()
EOMONTH() can be used to return both the last day of a month and the first day of a month (by finding the last day of the previous month and adding 1)
You can find more information on EOMONTH() here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/eomonth-function-7314ffa1-2bc9-4005-9d66-f49db127d628
I'm using =IFERROR(INDEX($A:$M,MATCH($O2,$A:$A,0),MATCH(P$1,$A$1:$M$1,0)),0) formula in excel to bring the value from Table A to Table B based on maching headers.
The same formula works like charm on Google Spreadsheet but when I tried to run the same formula on my locally installed excel (office 2016) its not giving correct results
Strange isn't it!!!
anyone facing similar issues or whats the fix for it
regards
Some formulas I'm using only work in Microsoft Excel but not Google Sheets, or a different formula that has the exact same result works in Google Sheets but not Microsoft Excel.
Is there a simple way to detect if Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel is running, and execute the compatible formula accordingly?
I am finding it difficult to believe this question hasn't been asked before but I couldn't find my specific question of the same file working in both Excel and Google Sheets.
I'm not concerned about scripts, just formulas.
There is no official way to determine if Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets is running through formulas, however with some versions of Excel =INFO("RELEASE") will return the version of Excel running, but this doesn't work in Google Sheets.
Thanks to #Slai, =ISERR(-"1pm") results in TRUE in Excel and FALSE in Google Sheets. Excel doesn't understand how to apply math to a time string value, where Google Sheets does, hence the error.
A simple IF statement using this logic can be =IF(ISERR(-"1pm"),"MS-Excel_formula","G-Sheets_formula")
If the formula you're using returns a number, a more simplified version is =IFERROR(GoogleFormula+"0am", ExcelFormula) however this won't work for non-numeric returned formulas because it adds 0 to the result which should not change a numeric result. For instance, =IFERROR(1+"0am", 2) returns 1 in Google Sheets and 2 in Excel.
If Microsoft decides to recognise "1am" or "0am" as numeric time values in future versions of Excel, the above if statements won't work as intended and Excel will attempt to execute the Google Sheets formula.
One boolean solution is to force an error in a function you absolutely know doesn't work in one or the other program. So #Slai 's example would work well no? Also, excel doesn't attempt to implement the Google only functions like ArrayFormula or Importrange &c. FWIW The minor discrepancies are the ones that catch me out - 'DSUM' for example frustrates me in that Google Sheets responds slightly differently to the Excel implementation under certain conditions. There will be others I'm sure but I've not yet found a definitive list or collation thread of these. (PS. I've not expanded my description of the DSUM idiosyncrasy as I suspect it'll be too far off topic).
I’ve got Google form survey data I’d like to analyse. In my example doc,
Sheet 1 contains the survey responses and sheet 2 references the data in sheet 1. Sheet 2 is where I am using this array formula under the column called Behaviour:
=ArrayFormula(if(len(A3:A),if(Sheet1!Question3="Yes","Excluded ",)&if(Sheet1!Question5="Yes","Arrested ",)&if(Sheet1!Question6="Yes","Alcohol ",)))
The issue is that I need to be able to download this Google spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel doc but whenever I do that, of course the Google spreadsheet =ArrayFormula() function is not supported in Microsoft Excel.
My question is how could I replicate this array function’s behaviour using another method in Google spreadsheet so that I get the same result when it’s downloaded to Microsoft Excel?
What I’ve been able to find in the forum so far are questions on how you can manually copy formulas to multiple rows in Excel. The trouble with these methods are that the user has to do it by either clicking and dragging the bottom right-hand corner of the cell or by using shortcuts. I’d like my process to work so that the user doesn’t have to manually do anything.
Many thanks in advance.
Excel support array formulas but it does that in a different way than Google Sheets.
Instead of an ARRAYFORMULA function, Excel requires that the formula autor/editor, first selects the area to which the array formula result should be extended, then enter edit mode and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. See Create an array formula that calculates multiple results on Create an array formula
It is possible to replicate the Google Sheet ArrayFormula in MS Excel using the OFFSET() formula even if it's not as simple as the ArrayFormula function.
The full documention of the function can be found here.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OFFSET-function-C8DE19AE-DD79-4B9B-A14E-B4D906D11B66
A quick example
Google Sheet
= ARRAYFORMULA(SQRT(Sheet2!A:A))
=> This will copy the full column A for the Sheet2 taking the square root of each value.
Excel Version
= SQRT(OFFSET(Sheet2!A1,0,0,COUNTA(Sheet2!A:A),1))
=> This will take a reference of the column, but we have to manually specify the height and width of the reference before taking the square root of each value.
You may very well discover that this is not possible; at least not in every case. There may be a few formulae which have the exact same definition in Google sheets and Excel. however, it's not guaranteed to work in general.
Some more detailed information here: Sheets vs Excel forumlae
To preface, I have already tried the Ctrl+U and Command+Enter as detailed here: Excel formulas giving #VALUE! error when ported to Mac
Problem: Data ported from SAS stacks the two needed values into one cell. So I am using a step process to automatically split the cell and then concatenate based on desired values.
Here is the formula that works in PC, but showing a Value Error when trying to work with the spreadsheet in Mac Excel.
=LEFT('Data Input'!B7,FIND(CHAR(10),'Data Input'!B7)-1)
=RIGHT('Data Input'!B7,FIND(CHAR(10),'Data Input'!B7)-1)