Normally in Excel, if I wanted to input a range into a function I would use C8:D13 But what If I split the rows with a row in between, but still wanted that range. So it would be C8:C13 + E8:E13?
But how can one insert this as a single range?
Excel cannot directly concatenate arrays in the way you describe (i.e.
simply combining them back to back.) However, there is a (complicated)
solution to this problem without using helper functions.
You can check out the rest of the details here.
Without knowing more about the problem, it's hard to give an appropriate solution. However, you may look into using TEXTJOIN() with a comma for a delimiter, and set ignore blanks as TRUE, then split the comma-seperated values again.
Some formulas may work differently, but for most, it's quite simple:
Original range:
=SUM(C8:D13)
After inserting a column (automatically updates):
=SUM(C8:E13)
Manual correction to ignore new column:
=SUM(C8:C13,E8:E13)
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I'm having some trouble here.
I have an excel test.
The instruction is to adding a final value with an available value, and it should using trim(instruction unclear but it just said "TRIM" on the sheet test.
The data is look like these.
Btw, what is the function in excel to fill the final score but skip the blank(Actually if it with trim)?
Seems pretty easier. MAX() may work for you.
=MAX(C2:D2)
For Microsoft 365 user can use BYROW() for array approach.
=BYROW(C2:D16,LAMBDA(x,MAX(x)))
If you really, really must use Trim(), you might opt for following solution:
=TRIM(A1&B1)
It means that you are using both cells "A1" and "B1" as strings, you concatenate them and trim it, so, in case either one of them contains only space characters, those get chopped off.
Is there a way to convert data from a row-array over to a single column, without breaks, using cell formulas?
Example Table:
The following explanation does what you are looking for, EXCEPT it also includes the empty (unanswered) questions. I can't think of a way to do also remove the empty ones.
source: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/2775-excel-convert-matrix-to-single-column.html
Another way would be to use VBA
I need to return the most frequently occurring textual value from a range while working within the following parameters:
No helper columns (so this solution and this solution don't work).
No VBA (so this solution doesn't work).
The number of values in the range will vary.
The range will usually include a number of blank values (so this solution doesn't work).
It seems that every which way I turn, I run into a roadblock. How to handle?
As I was writing out this question, I came across this answer to this related question, which included this formula:
=INDEX(MyList,MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(MyList,MyList)),COUNTIF(MyList,MyList),0))
And sure enough, that did the trick: no VBA, no helper columns, and no issue with blanks. I was able to replace MyList with a range like D2:D500 and it worked fine.
I have two data sets to compare using the Excel RSQ Function. The first dataset comprises straightforward sequential cells in a row (A1:D1). The second dataset in the row below takes its final cell from a different reference in the spreadsheet(A2:C2,G12). Can't get the formula with 3 references to work. I seem to have tried all combinations and even read up on array formulas thinking this might help but no luck. Can this even be done?
Obviously the following doesn't work, but for clarity, this is kind of what I'm after:
=RSQ(A1:D1,(A2:C2,G12))
Any help much appreciated.
You don't mention whether this needs to be dynamic or not, so we can use a static array construction:
=RSQ(A1:D1,IF({1,1,1,0},A2:C2,G12))
Note that, if you're not using an English language-version of Excel, the separator within the array constant (here a comma) may require changing.
Regards
Try to replace (A2:C2,G12) with CHOOSE({1;2;3;4},A2,B2,C2,G12).
For completeness, another method. Replace with :
N(INDIRECT({"A2";"B2";"C2";"G12"})).
I am using excel to look through my data, I have a matrix of 2000 columns and thousands of rows.
I want to search for some string in a specific column. I've been reading online and the Match() function is usually used for this. I am not sure of 2 things actually:
1-how to formulate the command since I have my columns as R1C1 reference style? (I mean I have numbers instead of letters as columns names)
2- I don't know how many rows I have, I just want the function to search the entire column for this string.
Here's the command I found, which doesn't solve any of the 2 problems mentioned above
=MATCH("string",A1:A100, 0)
Thanks,
Here's a simple one:
=MATCH("string",A:A,0)
However, the preferred technique is to usually create a named reference. Then you can just use the name of the range that you want to search in your MATCH() formula. Named ranges are usually easier to work with in larger projects (or projects that start small but where you want to keep some flexibility in case the workbook gets larger).
Edit: If you want to stick to R1C1, the formula might look like this instead: =MATCH("string",C1,0)