Hy Every Body, I have two excel sheets name as "Blotter" and "Opportunity", I want to use "Vlookup" Function in Opportunity so that I can find out which opportunity is available in the blotter sheet. Please take a look at the Blotter sheet as under
In the Column B the Opportunities are available.
Now please look at the opportunity sheet.
In the opportunity sheet I am using this function.
=IF(D2 = "","",VLOOKUP(D2,blotter,10,0))
It working fine with first five rows but later it start duplicate the same value multiple time, because behind these cell on the blotter sheet the column B has Piad/place status instead of opportunity. So it duplicate the next opportunity. I have tried many tricks like match, index, but in vain.
I know it can be fixed. I have google it and also try to find it via youtube but unable to fix it.
I don't think it can be done without an intermediate column. The position of the next value in the lookup key depends on where the position of the last successful lookup was, so in a way the lookup chain is path dependent and I don't think you can build path dependency with any ease inside an Excel formula.
In the below example you get something akin to what I think you want by calculating how many spaces there are to the next valid lookup key in Column C, and then doing an Offset in column D. In column C I use an indirect which generates path dependency based on the sum of the cells above itself. You would need to apply similar principles to your example, should only need a single equivalent of my column C.
Formulas as follows:
Column C: =MATCH("OPP",INDIRECT("A"&SUM($C$1:C1)+2&":A50"),0)
Column D: =OFFSET($B$1,SUM($C$1:C2),0)
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I'm trying to use VLOOKUP to match activities with product codes, but run into an issue since VLOOKUP always returns the first match. I did a mockup below to describe my issue. To the left, I have a table with activity names and product codes.
To the right, in column G, I want to, based on matching activity names in column F with activity names in column A, assign the activities product codes from column B.
When I use VLOOKUP, it only matches with the first activity name and give all the activities with the same name the same product codes. I need them to get different product codes even if they have the same name. I want my function to "take the next one" on the list, when the first one is taken.
Should I try to use another function to solve this? Is it impossible with VLOOKUP? My 'real' document has like 2000 rows, and the solutions I found on Youtube was not good to scale.
Thanks in advance. I'm new to here so if I should clarify my question in any way, feel free to tell me.
If the raw is around 2,000 rows, you can use a nested index match with helper columns.
Add a rank in column C with the formula =COUNTIF(A2:$A$2,A2)
Then apply the same ranking in your output part as well (Ensure Activity Name is sorted so that the formula works), Output rank formula =IF(J2=J1,I1+1,1)
Formula that lists out the Product Code {=INDEX($B$2:$B$3190,MATCH(I2,IF($A$2:$A$3190=J2,$C$2:$C$3190),0))}
This is an array formula, you get the curly brackets by hitting control+shift+Enter instead of just Enter upon keying in the formula
If you are using excel 365, you can use UNIQUE formula.
=UNIQUE(A2:B18)
I have a sheet with multiple parts belonging to different affiliates and areas. I want to write a formula that brings up the unique part from this list. I created a formula for the data set to get the row number of each unique part as shown below:
I want to just pull the rows from G which began with a 1. I try using the formula below, but it just will pull all the rows in column A:
INDEX(DATA!$A:$A,MATCH(1&"-"&$A$2&"-"&DATA!A2,DATA!G:G,0))
And produce this result:
01949765
01949765
04581664AA
04581664AA
04581914AC
04581914AC
04581914AC
04581914AD
04581915AB
Below is what I want to see:
01949765
04581664AA
04581914AC
04581914AD
04581915AB
Any formula I can use to get just the unique values?
As I understand it, the row already split the unique values, you just have to pull anything in A that has a G counterpart starting with 1.
=INDEX($A$1:$A$8,AGGREGATE(15,6,((LEFT($B$1:$B$8,1)="1")*1/(LEFT($B$1:$B$8,1)="1")*1)*ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&COUNTA($B$1:$B$8))),ROW()-10))
You'll have to adapt the different ranges to your data and the "-10" at the end depending on where you put your result.
My proposal, add a column, put in
=COUNTIF($A$2:$A2,A2)
Then filter only the value = 1. You'll see the results straightaway..
about the parts name in G..
you can load it using index()+match() function. Eg =INDEX(G:G,MATCH(A2,A:A,0)) to 'load' it.
Hope it helps.
I have a pricelist, with currently 5 different categories of products. Each product will have to have two different prices. Depedning of the product and the type of price, the calculation will be different. Therefor I've used INDEX/MATCH to find the formula needed, from a table I created.
Below a screendump, and I wanted to attach the Excel fil, but canøt seem to work out how.
Question: HOW do I then "run" the formula I fetched? -I've tried different suggestions on using EVALUATION, but it doesn't seem to cut it? Also I've tried "Indirect' on the whole formula, without success.
I would like to avoid any VBA for this case.
Can anybody provide some insight?
You could but if I understand properly, the only thing changing in the formulas is the "muliplier" number, then it's better to lookup that number instead of the whole formula. The other method (which would use Evaluate etc) is not be considered "good practice" for a number of reasons.
EDIT:
I didn't see the 2nd varying value (since I was on the SO mobile app) but it's still not an issue since it would a target column. You could be thinking of the opposite: sometimes lookups based on multiple criteria can get complicated, but this a matter of more data, as opposed to adding criteria for the lookup.
VLookup would have been the simplest method, like G2 could have been:
=VLOOKUP(E2, $J$4:$L$8, 2, False)
...to return the second column of range J4:L8 where the first column equals E2. (Then for the next required column, same formula except with 3 instead of 2.)
Since I wasn't sure more columns could be added one day, I allowed for that by, instead of specifying "Column 2 or 3" etc, it finds the column dynamically by name. (So the multiplier/factor used in G2 will change if you change the title in G1 to the name of a different column existing in the target data chart.
For the sake of neatness as well as potential of additional columns like G & H, I moved the lookup table to a separate sheet. It can stay out of the way since you won't need to see or change it very often. (If the same chart was going to be referenced by many workbooks, you could even move it to a separate workbook and point all formulas at that, since it's always best to have one copy of identical data instead of many in different workbooks.
Also to assist with potential future changes (and just to be tidier), instead of referring to the target table range addresses (like "J4:L8" etc) I named two ranges:
the table of multiplier/factor data can be referred to by it's address, or by myMultipliers
the titles of the same table is also called myMultiplierTitles (used to match to the titles of column G & H on the original sheet.
Formula
After those changes, the lookup formula in G2 is:
=INDIRECT(VLOOKUP($E2,myMultipliers,MATCH(G$1,myMultiplierTitles,0),FALSE)&ROW())*VLOOKUP($E2,myMultipliers,MATCH(G$1,myMultiplierTitles,0)+1,FALSE)
INDIRECT returns the value of a cell that you refer to by name (text/string) as opposed to directly (as a range). For example:
=INDIRECT("A1")
returns the same as
=A1
...but with INDIRECT we can get the name from elsewhere (a cell, function or formula). So if x="A1" then =INDIRECT(x) returns the same as the 2 above examples.
Your original plan of storing the entire formula in a table as text would have worked with the help of INDIRECT and/or EVALUATE but I think this way is considered better practice partly because it facilitates easier future expansion.
The formula is longer than it would have been, but that's mostly because it's dynamically reading the field names. And size doesn't matter. :-)
I don't know if I'm going about this the wrong way but it seems like it should be simple. Column A has a list of Names. Along each row is several "W"'s. Another separate field has a drop down representing Column A names. I want to count the number of "W"'s in a row corresponding to what name I select. I've tried using VLOOKUP and COUNTIF but I can't figure out how to select the entire array and then single out the one row that matches my selected name. I can get it working with a bunch of IF statements but thats far too time consuming as I'm manually matching the name to the row (and it isn't future proof).
There are a few ways to first 'narrow in' on the row you're looking for, after which point you can use a simple COUNTIFS to check the number of W's in that row.
One method would be to simply use INDIRECT, and create the row reference on the fly, like so [assumes your search cell is C1]:
=COUNTIFS(INDIRECT(MATCH(C1,A:A,0)&":"&MATCH(C1,A:A,0)),"W")
This first uses MATCH to find the appropriate row, and then builds a reference to that row [like "24:24"], which becomes the row that INDIRECT passes to COUNTIFS, which counts that row for W's.
For only one use of INDIRECT, the high computing costs of INDIRECT should not be an issue.
Another method would be to point out the full possible box that data could be contained in [let's assume that at most only column H would be used], and then use INDEX to give us the appropriate row number, like so:
=COUNTIFS(INDEX(A:H,MATCH(C1,A:A,0)),0,"W")
This again uses MATCH to find the row which contains the value found in C1 within column A. Then it takes the full possible box from INDEX, and returns all columns from the particular row [note that telling index to return 0 for the column # actually returns all columns instead].
Other methods would be possible [for example OFFSET], but I believe these two show the principle fairly well.
You could use the "Helper" Column method:
In the helper column:
=COUNTIF(B2:H2,"W")
Then use SUMIF() in the totals column:
=SUMIF($A$2:$A$9,K2,$I$2:$I$9)
I am trying to use Excel without a macro to achieve a task trivial with a macro.
I want to check over a column and only select unique values from that column, I am using the following function I found online to do this:
=IFERROR(INDEX(list,MATCH(0,COUNTIF(A$2:$A2,list),0)),"")
This function works as expected, however I wish to extend this function and I'm not sure how.
Once I find the next unique value using above, I also want to make an additional check from a row in the same column.
As an example, if the next unique value is found in row 3 I want to check if the value in column B row 3 is "Yes".
Can anyone point me in the right direction for this?
Subject to the fact that I don't understand the formula you are happy with (so may not have understood the question) if you have labels in Row1 then in Row2 and copied down:
=IF(AND(COUNTIF(A:A,A2)=1,B2="Yes"),"Found","")
might suit your purposes.