I have a named range that I'm using to populate a drop-down list. The cells in this range are populated by pulling unique values from another much larger named range on the spreadsheet. When populating this drop-down list, I would like to ignore blank cells in the first named range. I've tried using OFFSET, such as the following:
=OFFSET(Sheet1!$F:$F,1,0,COUNTA(Sheet1!$F:$F)-1,1)
This isn't working, and I think it's because Excel doesn't consider the cells to actually be blank. The cell is instead filled with a formula and the formula is returning "". Is there any way you guys know of to ignore blank values returned by formulas in drop-down lists?
You have to use =ROWS(F:F)-COUNTBLANK(F:F) to skip over blank formula results. The whole formula shoudl be something like:
=OFFSET($E$1,
COUNTA($E:$E)-(ROWS($E:$E)-COUNTBLANK($E:$E)),
0,
ROWS($E:$E)-COUNTBLANK($E:$E))`.
Tested:
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I have the formula =IF(NOT(ISNUMBER(XMATCH($D$23,3:3))),$A3,"") that I want to use to filter a list (single column range) of items in column A based on data to the right of column A. The location $D$23 is arbitrary but would be fixed. This formula works fine to filter the list if I copy-paste down a column. Because the list to be filtered is dynamic, I cannot know how far down to paste the formula. I would ideally like to convert this plain formula into an array formula that would take the source list as an argument and apply the conditional on each row of the source list, returning an array. I am not interested in VBA solutions as the entire project is based around getting rid of VBA/macros.
Use FILTER:
=FILTER($A3:$A1040000,NOT(ISNUMBER(--INDEX($B$3:$Z$1040000,0,MATCH($D$23,$B$3:$Z$3,0)))))
My SUMIFS formula criteria is based on a cell (say A1) that is data validated by list and changed via selection by user. If cell has data inside text or number by selection from drop down list, SUMIFS formula is considering that data as criteria to calculate the related sum. If criteria cell is left blank, I want formula to sum everything without any condition. My problem here; in criteria field of SUMIFS formula, I typed if condition like; SUMIFS(sum-range,criteria_range,IF(A1<>"",A1,"*")) but in this case excel considers only text values and do not include cells containing number. Briefly, if nothing selected in A1, I want SUMIFS formula to sum everything without any condition, numbers, texts and even blank cells. How can we proceed to do that?
EDIT:
Here an example for data and formula, what is expected is actually to disable criteria if one of selection is blank on left. Harun's suggestion works but if there is blank cell in criteria range, then in this case it won't consider those values in sum. For instance, if we select from left Phone/smart/touch, then how can we get "2" as output no matter what is in cri_range4 cells? Thanks
Example:
How about this solution? It basically ignores a missing entry in column C and evaluates only the other two. (Your example formula has a fourth criterium that isn't apparent in your list but the method can be extended for as many criteria as you might have.
=SUMPRODUCT((IF(LEN(C2),(INDEX(Lists,,1)=C2),TRUE))*(IF(LEN(C3),(INDEX(Lists,,2)=C3),TRUE))*(IF(LEN(C4),(INDEX(Lists,,3)=C4),TRUE))*SumRange)
For better readability I created a named range Lists which comprises your sample range E2:H10 while I named I2:I10 as SumRange'. INDEX(Lists,,1}` refers to the first column of the range. It's important that SumRange and Lists have the same number of rows.
If A1 is blank then just use not equal operator to sum all cells that are not blank. Try below.
=SUMIFS(D1:D5,C1:C5,IF(A1<>"",A1,"<>"))
Edit: can you check below formula in D3 cell then drag down.
=IF(C2="",SUM($I$2:$I$10),SUMPRODUCT(($E$2:$H$10=C2)*($I$2:$I$10)))
I've searched through so many forums on here to find exactly what I'm looking for but haven't found what I needed.
Basically I have a workbook with cells that reference another workbook. Column A cells fill the date from the other workbook as does column B. I'd like for cells in column C to have an "X" if the cell in column A has actual data in it and left blank if it does not. The problem I'm running into is that Excel is putting an "X" in all of the cells in column C because it's reading that Cell A has a formula in it to pull the data from the other workbook.
Current formula: =IF(OR(ISBLANK(A5>"")),"","X")
I've tried isblank, not, etc, nothing seems to be working. Below is an example of what it's doing:
The problem
What I want
The OR() function typically works with more than one condition. You want to see if either A or B is blank, but you only test for A.
IsBlank() returns true if a cell is blank. You only need to pass it a cell, nothing else. You are using a cell compared to a blank string as the argument, which is not correct syntax.
Try this:
=IF(OR(A5="",B5=""),"","X")
On the other hand, pre-filling a column with a formula is not good data architecture. You can turn the data into an Excel Table object with Insert > Table and enter the formula for the existing rows of the table. Then the formula will automatically be applied to new rows that are added or inserted.
I have an excel sheet with few columns. One of the columns is a drop down based on a handful of values that I added. However, For each drop down value there is a matching account number which I would like auto populated once the drop down value is selected. Column D has the drop down and the drop down values and accounts are in BR5: BS38 and Would like the account to be populated in column E automatically everytime a drop down values is chosen.
Code I am using, however, it doesnt populate automatically, I have to copy the formula down and when I copy it down, if nothing is chosen in the drop down it will se #N/A.
=VLOOKUP(D5:D38,$BR$3:$BS$38,2,0)
Without VBA the formula will have to be copied down.
An easy work around would be to nest your vlookup in an iferror function and have it already populated in a set range of rows. So if you know the user will never type more than 1000 rows have the formula already there.
Your new formula would look like this. The only thing this does is remove the #N/A. Not sure why you specified a range in your vloopup lookup value, so this formula only picks the first cell in that range.
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(D5,$BR$3:$BS$38,2,0), "")
If you would like some error checking, not sure if your drop down allows foreign values, you can use a formula like this
=IF(D5="","",IFERROR(VLOOKUP(D5,$BR$3:$BS$38,2,0),"Not Found"))
I have an array of numbers in Excel spanning from Cells B1 to F49. Out of all those numbers I want to find out the unique values, in other words, no duplicates. I tried using Remove duplicates but it looks at the rows and not the individual cells. What would be my best option for doing this? any help would be greatly appreciated.
You could try this array formula that returns unique text or numbers from a rectangular range.
Select a range to output the results to eg: H1:H245
Copy and paste the formula below into the formula bar.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter into the range.
=IFERROR(CELL("Contents",INDIRECT(T(IF(1,TEXT(MODE.MULT(IF(FREQUENCY(COUNTIF(B1:F49,"<="&B1:F49)+ISTEXT(B1:F49)*COUNT(B1:F49),COUNTIF(B1:F49,"<="&B1:F49)+ISTEXT(B1:F49)*COUNT(B1:F49))>={1,1},MODE.MULT(10^5*ROW(B1:F49)+COLUMN(B1:F49),10^5*ROW(B1:F49)+COLUMN(B1:F49)))),"r0c00000"))),0)),"")
I'd probably put this formula in column C: (or another empty column you have):
(so starting in cell C1: )
=COUNTIF(B:B,B1)=1
(and copy/paste the formula down)
It will return TRUE if it is unique. So you can then filter things out via Filter, or with other formulas down the road.
It may be easiest to just combine your information into one long column and run a remove duplicates. If this is not an option you may want to look at writing a macro to crawl through the records.
You could have a macro go through each column for the rows specified and determine if the CountIf function =COUNTIF(B2:F49,B2) returns a value >1
if it does there are at least 2 instances of this number.
I'm not sure how you want to identify your unique cells but you could potentially set a text color or return the values of the cell to another location.
Simplest for identification of values unique within the entire array may be to highlight the entire range with ‘standard’ formatting of choice for uniques, then select the entire range, Conditional Formatting, Highlight Cell Rules, Duplicate Values…, and choose a custom format of no fill and font of whatever you started with.