I have five columns of data (A-E), most of which are blank. In column F, I want to display one value from the 5 cells in that row. Specifically, I want to display the rightmost cell with a value. For example, if A3 and D3 both have values, then it should populate with D3. If only B4 has a value, then I'd like that value. They all have formulas in them, but most of the formulas result in blanks.
I suspect this could be accomplished with nested IFs, but I'm hoping for a more concise way.
Use INDEX(MATCH())
=IFERROR(INDEX(A3:E3,MAX(IFERROR(MATCH(1E+99,A3:E3),0),IFERROR(MATCH("zzz",A3:E3),0))),"")
Since it is only 5 columns and if you have Office 365 Excel then you can use IFS():
=IFERROR(IFS(E3<>"",E3,D3<>"",D3,C3<>"",C3,B3<>"",B3,A3<>"",A3),"")
The first is more scale-able if other columns are added while the second is a little shorter with only 5 columns.
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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$10)))
I have a worksheet with two columns of data. Column A contains thousands of records, and Column B contains only a few records. I wish to identify which values in Column B do not exist in Column A, and display these in Column D. What is the quickest way to achieve this? Happy to use formulas, or otherwise.
I would use conditional formatting and filters:
Formula being:
=ISERROR(MATCH(A1,B:B,0))
I'd then filter on highlighted cells, select the cells in column A and use Alt+; to select only the visible cells, then paste in D.
Last, I'd clear all the conditional formatting and clean up anything left.
Using formulae would be a little more complex; usually the most of the time would be spent designing it, and it's an array formula (invoked correctly only with Ctrl+Shift+Enter):
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$1:$A$27,SMALL(IF(COUNTIF($B$2:$B$6,$A$2:$A$27)=0,ROW($A$2:$A$27),9^99),ROW(D1))),"")
The formula can also take some time to calculate for larger datasets.
So I have tried to use sumproduct to pull data from cells. My issue is that I would prefer to pick 5 individual cells vs a bank of cells.
I can make this formula below work, but it pulls "Place" cell values into the equation as well as "Points" value cells
Image of cells and formula
I would like to use the formula
=SUMPRODUCT(Large(C5,G5,K5,O5,S5,W5,AA5,{1,2,3,4,5))
to pull only from the 7 specific cells, but I get an error. as soon as I enter large, it only has the first 3 cells highlighted.
The error states that You've entered too many arguments for this function.
I am new to the Large formula as well, but it can only accept an array, not individual cells. You did specify individual cells which would lead to the next argument.
Since the Large formula only excepts 2 arguments you have too many and it fails with an error.
It is not a nice solution, but I guess the formula could work if you put your specific individual cells in neighbouring cells to create the array needed for the formula. (Or at least refer to them in some other cells to create the Array)
For the result you also would need 5 cells to enter the Sumproduct formula to display in each cell the 5 individual results.
Similar to:
=SUMPRODUCT(Large(A1:A7,1))
Where A1:A7 would be the newly created array where you reference:
in Cell A1 =C5
in Cell A2 = G5
in Cell A3 = K5
etc.
The LARGE function expects a single contiguous range as its first argument.
This array formula should circumvent that restriction.
=SUM(LARGE(IF(MOD(COLUMN(C:AA), 4)=3, C5:AA5), ROW($1:$5)))
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column A is a formula that outputs an 8 digit ID from a prior delimited calculation. I want to vlookup that ID to a separate set of data, but it is not finding the ID when the lookup value is part of a formula.
Is there a way to paste the formula result as a value in column b?
I have a list of 3000+ IDs, so using the F2, F9 trick won't work, since I would have to do that cell by cell.
Would prefer not to use VBA, but if that is the only way, can someone help simplify that process (new to using VBA)
If you have data in column A based on a left function of a bunch of numbers, and just want that result in column B, all you have to do is put:
=Value(ColRow)
in Column B. Then you can look up the value in Column B via VLookUp.
I am an avid Excel user and personally tested this solution. Though it appears #Scott beat me to it in the comment section.
I have a column with dates called "dates". This column contain dates from 01.01.2010 to 31.12.2010. it should have about 365 rows, but it actually has only 231 rows, because the data was not collected regularly. The others are missing, and I'd like to fill the gaps in time.
How can I fill the array of this column with the missing dates? I want to add 134 rows in the place of the missing ones, filling in the missing dates.
Create another sheet and put all the dates in column A in your new sheet.
Make sure your sheet with the data in it has the data column all the way on the left (important for how Vlookup works)
In your new sheet, starting in Cell B2 put numbers 1 through however many columns you have in your data sheet along that top row.
In your new sheet use Vlookup to find all the rows where there are data
=VLOOKUP($A2,DataSheet!$A$1:$C$20,B1,FALSE)
Note that the lookup column ($A1) is locked in to the column but not the row and that the range you are looking up is locked in in all directions. This will allow you to drag to the right/down and fill everything in.
Drag to the right then drag all the way down.
there will be #N/As where you cannot find a match which you can suppress with either an IF statement of conditional formatting. But now you have a row for every day with blanks when there is not data!
I found a solution with a similar formula, but the result was the same.
First, I got the two columns of data—"date" and "values" in the columns A and B of the worksheet. Each consisted of 231 rows. Then, I spread a full array of dates—365 in a new column D. Finally, I used this formula:
=VLOOKUP(D2;$A$2:$B$1056;2;FALSE)
in C2 and obtained the only the values from column "values" corresponded to the new dates of column D.
Thanks for Brad's answer for directing me to the VLOOKUP function.