I have created a table with headers via VBA,
Header:
[Name][ID][Check]
on a different cell, i want to calculate the amount of "Checks" summed up.
So i tried to do this
ActiveSheet.Range("G3").Formula = "=SUM(" & shortname & "[[#All];[Check]])"
When i run the code i get error 1004, and when i look it up,
it says it is possible that it is ambigious, but there is only one coumn named Check.
Any ideas?
When you use .Formula, syntax and (names of) functions must follow the US standard.
Otherwise use .FormulaLocal.
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I need a help to extract difference between two dates based on the cell reference provided. However, those cell reference given are extracted using the formula "=IF(A19="", "", IF(M19="Created", Timestamp(M19), TEXT(R19, "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm")))".
Where as Timestamp is the function code written in VBA script.
As an example:
cell value of R20 : "29/04/2021 12:56"
(extracted using the formula "IF(A20="", "", IF(M20="Created", Timestamp(M20), TEXT(R20, "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm")))"
cell value of T20: "30/04/2021 11:38"(extracted using the formula "=IF(A20="","",IF(M20="Resolved", Timestamp(M20), TEXT(U20, "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm")))"
Now in V20 I should get the difference between T20-R20, that should fetch in hh:mm format
But my error says "#Value#
Please suggest or help
Not sure if I can help much but you can try:
=INT((B10-B9)*24) & ":" & ROUND(((B10-B9)*24-INT((B10-B9)*24))*60,0)
Maybe there is a simpler way, but it worked for me!
It seems that your result has quotation marks. If so, then the formula in V20 won't work and you should change your VBA code to insert a date, not text.
Since you are already coding in VBA, you can also create another UDF to make this calculation.
Edit: I remembered you can use MOD to make a simpler formula like:
=INT((B10-B9)*24) & ":" & MOD((B10-B9)*24,1)*60
Based on the above query, my actual query is to enter the timestamp whenever I select the list from the data validation from the respective cell. However based on the selection/change of the item from the list, the timestamp should remain static, and it should not get changed when I save the worksheet.
Even I tried disabling "Enable iterative calculation" but as soon I save the worksheet the the date and time will get changed.
I swear this just worked yesterday...
I have a program that creates formulas within certain cells that depend on subsequent data entries into other cells:
Cells(i, 40).Formula = "= (N" & i & ")/AP" & i
So, APi can be input and/or changed after the fact, and the formula should give you the result for whatever value is there. However, I get a #Div/0! error no matter what value is in that cell. When I evaluate the formula (within Excel) and step through the calculations, it shows this (for one particular cell):
= (N64)/AP64 = (47.35)/AP64 = 47.35/AP64 = 47.35/9 = #DIV/0!
So, the formula recognizes that there is a value in the cell AP64, but then does not use it to properly calculate the result.
As I said at the top, this worked as I expected yesterday afternoon when I was testing it. Now that I need other people to start using it, of course, it doesn't. I changed nothing within the program relative to these lines of code.
I apologize if this is answered elsewhere - I really have no idea how to create a search for this type of problem.
Two things to check:
1) Value of the cells used is formatted to a number (i've had #Value based on that a couple times) and
2) verify that modifying the code using fixed references provides the appropriate output ("A16" for some reason wasn't recognized as a cell reference in one I had show up). E.g., "$N" & i & "/$AP" & i
If those both look alright, you might try something like:
.Range(.Cells(3,40),.Cells(lr,40)).Formula = "=$N3/$AP3" 'ensure no random spaces
This should act like a fill-down in which the # 3 is iterated with the same row as the formula.
I'm tasked with the following:
several sheets from different workbooks have to be copied to a new workbook
each of those sheets contains an Excel table (a ListObject), named like the sheet with a postfixed T (sheet Foo, table: FooT)
the new workbook has to contain a summary sheet where each table name is listed, and various values of the respective tables are presented by referencing them with suitable formulas
This has to be done frequently for different workbooks, so the idea was to do this in VBA.
Copying the sheets is easy, listing the table names in a new sheet is easy, but referencing the values runs into problems.
The general idea is to do the following
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Value = "FooT"
ActiveSheet.Range("B1").Formula = "=FooT[[#Totals],[Quantity]]"
ActiveSheet.Range("C1").Formula = "=FooT[[#Totals],[Total List Price]]"
and iterate over all sheets.
Setting the value for A and the formula for B works as expected and gets the expected results.
The issue with C is that instead of "Total List Price", the column header is actually formatted as
"Total
List
Price"
I can't change that, this has been a design decision.
This is also how the column name shows up in the formula if I add the formula to the cell manually.
So there's some sort of line break happening here, and I've tried cater to this in VBA with
ActiveSheet.Range("C1").Formula = "=FooT[[#Totals],[Total" & vbCrLf & _
"List" & vbCrLf & _
"Price]]"
and vb_Cr and vb_Lf and vb_Newline instead of the vbCrLf. Trying to set C's formula to any of these variations yields the infamous Error 1004.
Getting the value of the column header from one of the sheets and using it in the formula works. This could be a potential workaround, but I'd really like to know what I'm missing or how I can figure out how to build this formula string correctly.
Your formula is OK but typically, the newline character will be vbLf if the title was set from the keyboard. I also suspect there might be leading and/or trailing space characters anywhere in the title. Select your title cell and, from the VBE's Immediate Window (Ctrl+G), type Debug.Print ActiveCell.Value, then check where each printed line ends.
Are you using Option Explicit? In your question, you mention you've tried vb_Lf but this constant doesn't exist and, without Option Explicit, would have been interpreted as an empty string.
When you enter a line break in a cell, the text is actually continuous to the previous line, there being no separator character, unless you enter a space before the break. To name the column you must write it without a space between the last word of the previous line and the first of the next, like this: [TotalListPrice]
The code lines
.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(R1C1="&Chr(34)&text&Chr(34)&",1,0)"
.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(R[-3]C[2]="&Chr(34)&text&Chr(34)&",1,0)"
are examples of the usual manner to insert R1C1 formulas in target cells when the addresses of the target cells are already known. No problem with that.
BUT...I can't find the way to devise a general R1C1 formula that can be used to do the job when the addresses of the target cells aren't previously known, but they are read from different text files instead, and both, rows and columns, may vary from one occasion to the next, getting inserted by means of loops. The following code lines can give an idea of what I'd like to have in a text file to be read, inserted in a cell and work properly:
"=IF(R[-"&varRow&"]C["&varCol&"]="&Chr(34)&text&Chr(34)&",1,0)"
"=IF(R"&varRow&"C"&varCol&"="&Chr(34)&text&Chr(34)&",1,0)"
In other words, I can't figure out how to use variables for the numbers of rows and columns in the examples given above. I asume such a possibility exists, but I have ran out of ideas on how to implement it. I've implemented some, but I've just gotten the code to be inserted as the value for the cells or the #NOMBRE(#NAME) error.
What is a solution to this problem?
I am not able to "replay" your issue...or I understood it wrong.
If I use this code:
Range("C2").Select
Dim varRow As String
Dim varCol As String
varCol = 2
varRow = 2
Range("A1").FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(R[" & varRow & "]C[" & varCol & "]=" & Chr(34) & Chr(34) & ",1,0)"
The right formula appears in cell A1 and does its job.
To write this in a file, just put the formula string as it is in a string variable and write it to a file.
Scott, SJR, and anyone reading this post.
Apologies in advance for the length of this post, but I think that the matter deserves it.
I have managed to solve the situation regarding the FormulaR1C1 format when it is to be loaded from a text file. However, I'm not totally sure of the why and the how involved in the analysis and the solution. Maybe you can give a thorough explanation about it.
The fact is that the solution (formula format) you have given, quite similar to the one given by Microsoft and similar to the result obtained when recording the macro in entering the procedure by hand, when entered as plain text in a text file and then read from it and placed in a cell just doesn't give the result expected. An example of the original data in a text file:
22_2_|"=IF(R[" & varRow & "]C[" & varCol & "]=" & Chr(34) & varValue & Chr(34) & ",1,0)"
"22" would be the row number (varRow) and "2" the column number (varCol).
I tried every different logical possibility that came to my mind over and over, all of them with similar results: failure. Then I decided to forget logic and try random thoughts.
First thing I did on this new trail was to revise the original idea: use a general formula exclusively with variables in it. I realized that I was making a stupid mistake giving the value for the variable -for instance, the column and row number- and right next to it placing the variable in the formula at the same time. Why to do it that way? Why not to place the numbers for the row and column directly in the formula? After all, the formula should work the same all the way.
An example for this new approach could be:
"=IF(R[number]C[number]=" & Chr(34) & varValue & Chr(34) & ",1,0)"
I did it this way and tested it, with dissapointing results, similar to the ones obtained at first.
Then I thought about the quotes used for the formula format. Could it be possible that the reason for the problem might have to do with them? Well, there was only one way to find out. So I tried it this way, then this other way, an other..and other...and then...EUREKA!...This is what I got, that finally works:
=IF(R22C2="value",1,0)
As you may notice, the final formula ends up having no variables at all. That was a stupid idea on my side, considering that the data is going to be obtained from a text file. So, forget the variables. BUT...and this is a very important "BUT"...
Notice what has happened to the quotes. The only ones remaning are the ones that enclose the value that is to be compared. All the others have dissapeared. And this is the only way in which the formula, when read from the text file and inserted in a cell, ends up as a functional formula in the cell, and not as the value for the cell or as a "#NAME?" error. And now, a very important question: WHY? My answer for it: I have no idea.
I must suppose -and that's the most I can do at this moment- that the fact the formula is being read from a text file and inserted as text in the cell is handled by Excel in a "certain way" that already includes -behind curtains- the necessary quotes in the internal works of the worksheet. So, if you previously include some quotes, the formula ends up having an excess of them and the final product is not the one expected. Might that be it? Who can tell? Well, what matters to me is that, as strange as it may look, it now works as I wanted it. Give it a try yourself, and then tell me.
Well, pals, that's it. And thanks a lot to all for your kind and timely help.
I am trying to figure out why this formula is not working in my data validation field. I am using Excel 2010 and I have a large number of named ranges with a mixture of characters in a drop down list in Column c, in column d I have a dependent drop down list that currently works for some, but not all of the options listed in column C.
An example of one of the options in Column c is "10-40 Lby W" - The current formula works for that:
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($C13," ","_"),"-","_"))
But it won't work with this example "2/3-44K ARV" so I wrote it to look like below:
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($C13," ","_"),"-","_"),"/","_"),"&","_"))
However for reasons unbeknowst to me, that one does not work. When I put it into a cell and try to evaluate the formula it says "The Cell currently being evaluated contains a constant". I get the generic error message "The formula you typed contains an error." when I insert the second formula in the data validation form. Usually that means a syntax error, but I am wondering if the addition of the / and & characters are the problem. Any ideas?
It seems it is a syntax error.
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($C13." ","_"),"-","_"),"/","_"),"&","_"))
Should be:
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($C13," ","_"),"-","_"),"/","_"),"&","_"))