Right now I need to sum up some values in certain cells in Excel that are unstructured with text like this:
Netherlands (325)
Belgium (214)
Australia (970)
etc.
So I am only interested in the total value. Of course I could clean the cells and separate the value from the text and sum it up. But I was wondering if there is a fast solution in excel to ignore the text and just take the value in the cell, since this kind of scenario happens often in daily business.
Best regards!
No, you will must have some a bit more complex formula to accomplish this, as far as I am informed, you cant just take in consideration numbers from text only.
In your case, if A1 is "Netherlands (325)", you would have to filter out number with something like =MID(A1, SEARCH("(", A1)+1, (SEARCH(")", A1)) - (SEARCH("(", A1)+1)), and then sum that column.
Eventually, if you dont want to take another column for numbers, you can do similar thing as upper one, with array formula.
Are your values always 3 numeric characters? Then yes here you go:
=SUMPRODCUT(0+RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A3,")",""),3))
Thanks for the formulas so far. What I just experienced is, if you type
in the number of the first cell manually next to it, excel auto fills all cells beneath with the corresponding numbers of the other fields. That is super handy and fast I guess.
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I am new to Excel/Google Sheets. I have a difficulty of writing a formula to compare columns as a pair-wise since the formula would be
so big as the day goes.
For example, there're 2 main columns Foo and Bar. I want to find the total number of days that Foo
and Bar are equal so the current formula is =IF(A3 = G3, 1, 0)+IF(B3 = H3, 1, 0)+IF(C3 = I3, 1, 0)+...
But this is kind of tedious because there're ~40 days to compare with. Are there any other alternatives
to write a formula in efficient way? Either Google-App-Scripts or Excel Formula is appreciated.
Cheers!
Give a try on below google-sheet formula. Adjust ranges as you need.
=ArrayFormula(SUM(IF(A3:E3=G3:K3,1,0)))
Assuming that you're needing to get such a total for each row and not merely a single row, try this:
=ArrayFormula(IF(A3:A="",,MMULT(IF(A3:F=G3:L,1,0),SEQUENCE(COLUMNS(A:F),1,1,0))))
Of course you will need to adjust the three ranges to match your own FOO and BAR ranges.
This one formula will produce all results for all rows.
The MMULT function is tricky to explain to those as yet unfamiliar with it. But it's a powerful tool. I'll add a picture I created that may best explain what it does:
By making the second matrix a simple SEQUENCE of 1s as long as the other matrix is wide, we wind up multiplying everything by 1 before adding together. And since anything multiplied by 1 is itself, this combination serves only to do a row-by-row add.
Things to keep in mind with MMULT:
1.) Every cell in every matrix must be a number or it will produce an error.
2.) As in the above formula, there are ways to use either/or conditions to turn every cell in a matrix into a number.
I have a column which has positive and negative numbers. I want to find the sum of them. All the values are in Number datatype.
When I use auto sum, I get 0.00 as my result.
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Also, the values in the column were populated from another columns (like =B2-C2)
However, if I copy and paste the values alone in another column and sum it up, I get the desired result
I agree with BigBen, it sounds like your data is in text format. Even though you change the format on the "Home" tab to "Number", it still might be read by Excel as text.
To quickly change all text "numbers" to real numbers, select the range of numbers and use the "Text to columns" feature under the "Data" tab.
Try making sure that your data is being interpreted as numbers.
For instance, use in E2 "=2*D2". You should get the corresponding number.
Do the same for all your sources cells.
(Given that you mention that these are results from calculations, I expect these to be actually numbers).
If any of the results gives you trouble, you already have the source of your problem.
If all the cells contain numbers, try using in F2 "=SUM(D2:D2)" and expanding the range one cell at a time.
You should be able to identify the source of the problem.
You may help others help you by making your workbook available somewhere online.
You don't need autosum, just SUM (which is anyway the function setup by autosum).
I'm working on data from a population of people with allergies. Each person has a unique ExceptionID, and each allergen has a unique AllergenID (451 in total).
I have a data table with 2 columns (ExceptionID and AllergenID), where each person's allergies are listed row by row. This means that the ExceptionID column has repeated values for people with multiple allergies, and the AllergenID column has repeated values for the different people who have that allergy.
I am trying to count how many times each pair of allergies is present in this population (e.g. Allergen#107 & Allergen#108, Allergen#107 & Allergen#109,etc). To keep it simple I've created a matrix of 451 rows X 451 columns, representing every pair (twice actually because A/B and B/A are equivalent).
I somehow need to use the row name (allergenID) to lookup the ExceptionID in my data table, and count the cases where that matches the ExceptionIDs from the column name (also AllergenID). I have no problem using Vlookup or Index/Match, but I'm struggling with the correct combination of a lookup and Sumproduct or Countif formula.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Mike
PS I'm using Excel 2016 if that changes anything.
-=UPDATE=-
So the methods suggested by Dirk and MacroMarc both worked, though I couldn't apply the latter to my full data set (17,000+ rows) because it was taking a long time.
I've since decided to turn this into a VBA macro because we now want to see the counts of triplets instead of pairs.
With the 2 columns you start with, it is as good as impossible... You would need to check every ExceptionID to have 2 different specific AllergenID. Better use a helper-table with ExceptionID as rows and AllergenID as columns (or the opposite... whatever you like). The helper table needs a formula like:
=COUNTIFS($A:$A,$D2,$B:$B,E$1)
Which then can be auto-filled. (The ranges are from my example, you need to change them to your needs).
With this helper-matrix you can easily go for your bigger matrix like this:
=COUNTIFS(E:E,1,INDEX($E:$G,,MATCH($I2,$E$1:$G$1,0)),1)
Again, you can auto-fill with this formula, but you need to change it, so it fits your needs.
Because the columns have the same ID2 (would be your AllergenID), there is no need to lookup them because E:E changes automatically with the auto-fill.
Most important part of the formulas are the $ which should not be messed up, or you can not auto-fill it.
Picture of my self-made example (formulas are from the upper left cell in each table):
If you still have any questions, just ask :)
It can be done straight from your original set-up with array formulas:
Please note that array formulas MUST be entered with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, before copying across and down:
In the example pic, I have NAMED the data ranges $A$2:$A$21 as 'People' and $B$2:$B$21 as 'Allergens' to make it a nicer set-up. You can see in the formula bar how that looks as a formula. However you could use the standard references like this in your first matrix cell:
EDIT: silly me, N function is not needed to turn the booleans into 1's and 0's, since multiplying booleans will do the trick. Below formula works...
SUM(IF(MATCH($A$2:$A$21,$A$2:$A$21,0)=ROW($A$2:$A$21)-1, NOT(ISERROR(MATCH($A$2:$A$21&$E2,$A$2:$A$21&$B$2:$B$21,0)))*NOT(ISERROR(MATCH($A$2:$A$21&F$1, $A$2:$A$21&$B$2:$B$21,0))), 0))
Then copy from F2 across and down. It can be perhaps improved in technique with sumproduct or whatever, but it's just a rough example of the technique....
Cell A2: 5555550000
Cell A3: 5555550003
Trying to find a way to count the number of phone numbers in this range. The cheat way is:
=A3-A2+1
This would give me "4" because the first phone number actually is a value that needs to be calculated. Such is the case with a range like 5550000-5550099 which is 100 numbers, not 99.
Is there a function in excel that actually does the same thing as my cheat formula? I'm in the mood to learn something. Upon searching the internet, I didn't find anything that could help me in this case.
Thanks!
For many small and large blocks Excel can help. With the lower limit of each in ColumnA and the upper in ColumnB (a repeat of the A value where a single number 'range') then summing the two columns (say in Row12) and:
=B12-A12+COUNT(A1:B11)/2
should give the total. This is barely easier than B1-A1+1 - very similar to your approach - and then copying down and summing but may have a slight advantage in that it might be used as a template, where if the totals are in a row with high enough number there will always be empty rows available (and the result always in the same cell). The +1 in the shorter formula would not allow that, though would easily be overcome with:
=IF(A1<>0,B1-A1+1,0)
I would like to have part of an excel formula be dynamic, other than a cell reference.
For instance, suppose that in column A (cells A1:A99) I have a bunch of numbers, and I want to know how many of those numbers are greater than 50.
If I wanted this calculation to be static, I could simply use one of the following:
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$99,">50")
=SUM(IF($A$1:$A$99>50,1,0))
=SUM(($A$1:$A$99>50)*1)
I mention all three because my actual formula is hairy and a bit of a mix of the second and the third. (After all, perhaps something will work with COUNTIF but not with the others.)
Now, I want to be able to type my condition in another cell (say C1). So if I type ">50" in C1, my calculation will be as above, but if I type "<100" I will count how many entries of column A are less than 100.
Is this possible? (I am using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.)
There may be something that I'm missing.
If you give
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$99,C1)
in any cell, and then in cell C1 you type >50 or <100
don't you get what you want?
Use INDIRECT
=INDIRECT(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$99,">50"))
is same as
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$99,">50")
But, as you identified, the former, you can generate within the excel cells! I do it all the time, for such things.
I usually solve this by adding another column carrying the result of a complex logical expression, like
=AND(OR(C3<D3;E3>=100);A3=VLOOKUP(B3;Sheet2!$A$2:$B$212;2;FALSE))
this formula is in all rows of -say- column F - note: no IF needed here!
then I calculate a complex conditional sum across column E using =SUMIF() like
=SUMIF(F2:F57;TRUE;E2:E57)
I know that some users say "I do not want to change my design. That's ok; my argument is that I have better control over the condition, I can work on the condition seperately from summing up or other functions that rely on that condition, and I can filter records for TRUE or FALSE to look at the subsets and have a rapid overview if the formula makes sense
hope that helps Good luck MikeD