In the attached file, when I sort on column C on descending order, it puts blanks on top. (it shouldn't happen)
Column D is just "Copy as values" of column C and sort works fine in column D
So I guess there is some issue with my formula in column C
File Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TRDympt3-CFn6916aLGxd3du5SL_FaxM
Formula I am using: =IF(A3="","",IF(ISERROR(MATCH(TRIM(S!$A3),$G$4:$G$8,0)),$B3,""))
If you need to be able to sort in either ascending or descending order, then I can't think of a simple solution just through formulas.
The next simplest solution may be just applying an autofilter to exclude blanks (which actually does get rid of nullstrings).
If you're automating this through VBA, I think it would be simplest to first sort ascending, apply a filter to remove nullstrings, then sort descending.
You could also potentially incorporate the top 10 filter.
This is caused by the difference between a null-string and an empty cell.
The result of your formula is the null-string "", which is not the same as the "nothing" in an empty cell.
Truly empty cells are ignored by Excel when sorting, whereas the null-string is actually a string containing just the null-string character and is included in sorting.
I suspect the reason column D sorted correctly for you is because you only copied the cells with normal values from column C. If you copy the entire column (including what look like blank cells), then the issue persists because then you've also copied the null-string characters.
In a column of values, as in column D, you can remove null-strings using the Text-to-Columns tool with the delimiter option and deselecting all delimiters. (Same as how you can convert numbers stored as text to actual numbers.)
However with formulas, as in column C, there is no way of telling Excel to return truly "Nothing".
As a workaround, if you only ever have positive values, you can change your formula to return the value 0 instead of the null-string "". As a result, the 0 values will be put at the bottom when sorting descending.
You can then also hide the 0 values by changing the number formatting of the column:
Select the entire column in the data table
Format Cells...
On the Number tab, select "Custom" in the Category
Manually change the Type value from "0.00" to "0.00;-0.00;"
This format says to display:
Positive numbers with 2 decimal places
Negative numbers with 2 decimal places and negative sign at the front
Zeroes as blank
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=(Countifs(B:B;”*”;F:F;”<>*1”))
Why doesn't this work?
I want to count all the rows in the sheet, except the ones that has a number that ends with 1 in column F. It just count all the rows, even the ones in column F that ends with 1.
How do I exclude those?
edit
Some more information!
This is a sample of the data:
Could be up to 8000 rows some days. Column B always says "Independent instruction" so I'm using that as a base to count all the rows. Column F contain only numbers, or blank cells (meaning a number will be added later). I still want to count those rows as well (that's blank). It's just the rows that has a number in column F that ends with 1 that I want to exclude!
SUMPRODUCT gives a bit more flexibility for criteria that involve more than straightforward string-matching:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN($B:$B)>0),--(RIGHT($F:$F,1)<>"1"))
The array formula:
{=COUNT(IF((F:F<>"")*(MOD(F:F;10)<>1);F:F))}
will count all non empty cells in the conditions of your question.
Don't forget to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to place the formula.
Why doesn't this work?
Apart from the fact that you have transcribed it incorrectly (i.e. missing =, and smart quotes ”) the 'F' condition in quotes is a Text value, a formatting issue #BigBen has mentioned in connection with the 'B' values.
You say It just count all the rows so, syntactically corrected, your formula must be working on (a) all 'B's populated (with Text) and (b) all 'F's Numeric. As 1 and "1" are not the same, none of your entries in ColumnF will be excluded by your attempt (none end in "1", though presumably some do end in 1).
#Pspl's A works because its condition (for the 'F's) is based on MOD (applies to Number format values) and #jsheeran's A (my preference) because RIGHT is a string function that returns Text format even from a Number format value.
Put another way, with say 1 in F1, =F1="1" returns FALSE (so =F1<>"1" and =F1<>"*1" return TRUE - that would not suit you) whereas =RIGHT(F1)="1" returns TRUE (or, to suit you, RIGHT(F1)<>"1" returns FALSE).
You can try to use a combination of SUM and IF. Remember to adjust the formula to match your Excel formatting, i.e. replace commas (,) with semicolon (;).
This is an array formula (enter with Ctrl+Shift+Enter)
=SUM(IF(MOD($F$2:$F$25,10)<>1,1,0))
Result (updated with your data set):
When pasting the image into merged cells, the error looks like that:
So you need to make sure the formula is pasted into a single (not merged) cell.
Array formula for values greater than 1000:
=SUM(IF((MOD($F$2:$F$25,10)<>1)*($F$2:$F$25>1000),1,0))
Array formula for values less than 1000:
=SUM(IF((MOD($F$2:$F$25,10)<>1)*($F$2:$F$25<1000),1,0))
Example:
I'm wondering if there's a shortcut to the following.
I have a product form that customers will fill out and I need the formula to format the part numbers they enter correctly. If it doesn't their entry doesn't match the products list.
Below are the variety of text/number/other variations...
Excel Columns/ Rows Example
101
7-2009
7-5601-RT
G-2121
5728B
PI-PIXES
I got all but the last one working with this formula:
FORMULA1
=AND(SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(B40,ROW($1:$9996),1)))<LEN(B40),MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},B40&"0123456789"))<=LEN(B40))
I also have to keep it in .xls format.
Basically, I have one column that checks this above and it returns TRUE/FALSE.
I have another formula that checks for text:
FORMULA2:
=IF(I40=FALSE,"NUMBER", "TEXT")
The final column TESTS FOR TEXT/NUMBER.
FORMULA3:
=IF(J40 = "NUMBER", VALUE(B40), B40)
PI-PIXES is flagged as number because of the dash(hyphen).
Without any other option, I'm considering adding a third column to find TEXT with hyphens. I would then change FORMULA3 check if both if column 1 = TRUE+column 2 = TRUE and column 3 = TEXT but this is getting complicated and I'm wondering if there's a shortcut.
I think this does it:
=IF(SUBSTITUTE(B40,"-","")<>TEXT(B40,"#"),B40,IFERROR(VALUE(B40),B40))
If there are hyphens, it returns the B40 unchanged, eliminating dates. Otherwise, it handles it as a normal Value conversion with IFERROR.
This should work for older versions of Excel:
=IF(SUBSTITUTE(B40,"-","")<>TEXT(B40,"#"),B40,IF(ISERR(VALUE(B40)),B40,VALUE(B40)))
Or even this:
=IF(ISERR(FIND("-",B40)),IF(ISERR(VALUE(B40)),B40,VALUE(B40)),B40)
I have a data file and I need to return the dates of when the value (MaxT) is greater than or equal to 30 (>=30) for 3 consecutive days.
Data File:
Date, MaxT
1872-03-01,31
1872-03-02,29
1872-03-03,37
1872-03-04,40
1872-03-05,22
1872-03-06,9
1872-03-07,28
1872-03-08,31
1872-03-09,35
1872-03-10,37
1872-03-11,44
1872-03-12,29
1872-03-13,35
1872-03-14,48
1872-03-15,33
1872-03-16,31
1872-03-17,38
1872-03-18,31
1872-03-19,42
1872-03-20,20
1872-03-21,24
1872-03-22,31
I have attempted to figure this out using the following code but, I do not think I'm even in the ballpark...
Attempted Code:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(FREQUENCY(IF(B2:B23>=30,ROW(B2:B23)),IF(B2:B23>=30,ROW(B2:B23)))=3))
I'm assuming that your data file consists of 2 columns Date and Max T. If they are delimited by commas, you need to split them to 2 different columns using Text to columns delimited by commas ,.
The Date should be in Column A and Max T in Column B.
Enter the below formula in cellC2 and drag down,
=IF(AND(B2>=30,B3>=30,B4>=30),"Consecutive Range","")
The starting of the consecutive range of values greater than 30 will be shown in the output as above. You could then use a filter of some other excel function like Index-Match to get the corresponding dates. Hope this helps.
Alright, I got it to work, but I'm not entirely sure how you would make it work without separating the formula into multiple cells.
One potential solution would be to write some of the formulas into a sheet that's in the background, place the final part of the formula in the front sheet and have it reference the "hidden" bits of the formula.
First, I wrote the data in columns... "Date" in Column A, "MaxT" in Column B.
The first part of the formula is written in cell D2:
=IF(B2>=30,B2,"")
The next part of the formula is written in cell E2:
=COUNT(D2:D4)
The last part of the formula is written in cell F2:
=IF(E2=3,A2&","&A3&","&A4,"")
The result of this formula, in column F, there are 7 cells that have three dates written in them, separated by a comma.
Note that you can make any character or string of text separate the three displayed dates by replacing the commas that are in-between the ampersand, quote text:
(&","&) can become (&"anything you want"&)
From here, auto-fill the formulas to the relevant cells.
EDIT:
One way to shorten the code is to add the COUNT formula into the last IF statement like this:
=IF(COUNT(D2:D4)=3,A9&","&A10&","&A11,"")
I do still think that the first IF statement will need to be separate from the rest of the formula, though.
EDIT #2
Here is the code in one single cell:
=IF(AND(B2>=30,B3>=30,B4>=30), A2&","&A3&","&A4,"")
Which will display three dates that are located within Column A, current row & the next two rows below it.
This code still produces 7 lines of results with the data that you've provided.
I want to calculate the average over a range (B1:B12 or C1:C12 in the figure), excluding:
Cells not being numeric, including Empty strings, Blank cells with no contents, #NA, text, etc. (B1+B8:B12 or C1+C8:C12 here).
Cells for which corresponding cells in a range (A1:A12 here) have values outside an interval ([7,35] here). This would further exclude B2:B3 or C2:C3.
At this point, cells in column A may contain numbers or have no contents.
I think it is not possible to use any built-in AVERAGE-like function. Then, I tried calculating the sum, the count, and divide. I can calculate the count (F2 and F7), but not the sum (F3), when I have #N/A in the range, e.g.
How can I do this?
Notes:
Column G shows the formulas in column F.
I cannot filter and use SUBTOTAL.
B8:C8 contain Blank cells with no contents, B9:C9 contain Empty strings.
I am looking for (non-user defined) formulas, i.e., non-VBA.
From
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30242599/2103990:
Providing you are using Excel 2010 and above the AGGREGATE
function
can be optioned to ignore all errors.
=AGGREGATE(1, 6, A1:A5)
You can accomplish this by using array formulas based upon nested IFs to provide at least part of the criteria. When an IF resolves to FALSE it no longer process the TRUE portion of the statement.
The array formulas in F2:F3 are,
=SUM(IF(NOT(ISNA(B2:B13)), (A2:A13>=7)*(A2:A13<=35)*(B2:B13<>"")))
=SUM(IF(NOT(ISNA(B2:B13)), IF(B2:B13<>"", (A2:A13>=7)*(A2:A13<=35)*B2:B13)))
The array formulas in F7:F8 are,
=SUM(IF(NOT(ISNA(C2:C13)), (A2:A13>=7)*(A2:A13<=35)*(C2:C13<>"")))
=SUM(IF(NOT(ISNA(C2:C13)), IF(C2:C13<>"", (A2:A13>=7)*(A2:A13<=35)*C2:C13)))
Array formulas need to be finalized with Ctrl+Shift+Enter↵. Once entered correctly, they can be filled down like any other formula if necessary.
Array formulas increase calculation load logarithmically as the range(s) they refer to expand. Try to keep excess blank rows to a minimum and avoid full column references.
You can get the average of your "NA" column values in one fairly simple formula like this:
=AVERAGE(IF(
(
($A$2:$A$13>=$F$2)*
($A$2:$A$13<=$F$3)*
ISNUMBER(B2:B13)
)>0,
B2:B13))
entered as an array formula using CtrlShiftEnter↵.
I find this to be a very clear way of writing it, because all your conditions are lined up next to each other. They're "and'ed" using the mathematical operator *; this of course converts TRUE and FALSE values to 1's and 0's, respectively, so when the and'ing is done, I convert them back to TRUE/FALSE using >0. Note that instead of hard-coding your thresholds 7 and 35 (hard-coding literals is usually considered bad practice), I put them in cells.
Same logic for your sum and your count; just replace AVERAGE with SUM and COUNT, respectively:
=SUM(IF((($A$2:$A$13>=$F$2)*($A$2:$A$13<=$F$3)*ISNUMBER(B2:B13))>0,B2:B13))
=COUNT(IF((($A$2:$A$13>=$F$2)*($A$2:$A$13<=$F$3)*ISNUMBER(B2:B13))>0,B2:B13))
though a more succinct formula can also be used for the count:
=SUM(($A$2:$A$13>=$F$2)*($A$2:$A$13<=$F$3)*ISNUMBER(B2:B13))
The same formulas can be used to average/sum/count your "blank" column. Here I just drag-copied them one column to the right (column G), which means that all instances of B2:B13 became C2:C13.
We have 11 columns (Columns B through L) of codes that I need to select based on a VLOOKUP from another sheet. IF ANY of the column values are "HI" or "EXT", I need to keep the record, if ALL of the column values are "M" I can exclude it. Column A is my LOOKUP list.
Right now the best I can come up with is 11 nested =IF(VLOOKUP(...) statements to set an inclusion flag, but if there's a way to SUM a TRUE/FALSE flag based on equality to the value "M" across all 11 columns...I've not had success finding that.
Any ideas?
This can be solved in two steps:
For columns B-L, the formula needs to be your VLookup formula (which you didn't put here) and ="M" at the end of it, which will result in a binary true/false value.
Then, in column M, simply do a logical AND using the AND function across B-L for each row e.g. =AND(B1:L1)
Another option, if you wish to keep the display format the same, is to do an array formula.
Enter =IF(AND(B1:L1="M"), "KEEP", "EXCLUDE"), then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and it will add curly braces to it, meaning it calculates an array value. The resulting formula in the cell will be {=IF(AND(B1:L1="M"), "KEEP", "EXCLUDE")}. I tested, and it appeared to work as expected.