I am trying to get some code working but when I change a target cell into a range of cells I get an error #VALUE!
this code works
=IF(AND(A1=Sheet2!A2,B1=Sheet2!B2),"TRUE","FALSE")
but if I add a range I get #VALUE! Error
=IF(AND(A1=Sheet2!A2:A10,B1=Sheet2!B2:B10),"TRUE","FALSE")
Update : Here is an example of what I am trying to achieve
Any help would be much appreciated
Many Thanks,
And
Different approach from your logic statement. Instead it looks through your table and match the name with the row and the column with the date selected and the pulls the value at that location.
=INDEX($B$7:$G$8,MATCH($B3,$A$7:$A$8,0),MATCH(C$1,$B$6:$G$6,0))
IMPORTANT: The names in you B3:B4 area have to be unique and spelled identical to your A7:A8 area. That included trailing or leading spaces that you may accidentally drop in.
Adjust reference ranges to match your need if tables are on different sheets of your workbook.
THIS IS AN ARRAY FORMULA - Hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter While still in the formula bar
=INDEX(B2:B10,SMALL(IF(A2:A10=A1,IF(B2:B10="ONCALL",ROW(A2:A10)-1)),1))
=INDEX(B2:B10, - Look through B2:B10 and return the row number calulcaulated by:
SMALL(IF(A2:A10=A1,
IF(B2:B10="ONCALL",
ROW(A2:A10)-1)),1))
This is building an array of row numbers minus 1 where both IF statements are true (Date matches and "ONCALL" present), SMALL then returns the nth value in ascending order - I have asked for the 1st match (or the smallest row number) which INDEX then uses to return the result.
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On Sheet 1, I have a master list of data, with corresponding attributes. Some data has more than one attribute, some has only one, and there is a possibility of blanks. Attributes can be repeated when assigned to a different name.
I've posted some example data below, so we can all talk about the same cells/names etc.
On Sheet 2, there is much more freeform data input/analysis going on. Users are able to select a 'Name' from a dropdown menu using Data Validation, and are then able to select from the available attributes corresponding to that name, again using a dropdown menu. Names and attributes can appear in any order on Sheet 2.
It is important that all pairings are considered in the second worksheet.
Is it possible to use conditional formatting to highlight the 'Name' field (on Sheet 2) until at least one row exists with all possible pairings? In the example below, you can see that we have forgotten to put any info relating to the fact that Sally is Happy, and consequently 'Sally' has been highlighted to draw attention to the fact that there is some missing information.
Current thoughts:
I already have a list of the attributes that match the corresponding name- this is what drives the dropdown menu on Sheet 2, and is generated in a background sheet when a name is picked on Sheet 2. I can count the non-blank cells in this range to find out the total number of pairs that are required.
I would like to then count the number of non-duplicate attributes that are on rows that have the same Name as the current row, and compare this value.
I'm expecting this to get into the realms of array formulae, but may be wrong...
I'm also expecting array formulae to not work directly with conditional formatting, and to require the use of a 'helper column' to drive the formatting. Let me know if this is incorrect?
Something along the lines of the below (formatted as pseudo-code for readability, but this should be read as a high level description, not actual code)
{Count the 1s in the array(AND(
'Check if it's a name match'
If($D$1:$D$10=[$ACurrent],[set flag to 1],[set flag to 0])
'Check if it's a unique value'
[somehow check array values set at 1 to see if there is a duplicate value in column E, and then set the array value to zero if so])
}
Does this approach make sense, and how would I go about constructing this actual formula?
I don't mind using VBA if required, but would prefer to avoid it if possible (company policy, sorry).
Well, you want to highlight value Sally, Happy if that value does not appear in Sheet2, so you just need a COUNTIFS
COUNTIFS function
I've got this:
I've used a Conditional Formatin Rule based on my own formula. The formula I've used is:
=IF($B2="";IF(COUNTIFS($F$2:$F$12;$A2;$G$2:$G$12;"")=0;TRUE;FALSE);IF(COUNTIFS($F$2:$F$12;$A2;$G$2:$G$12;$B2)=0;TRUE;FALSE))
There are 2 COUNTIFS, because blank values are possible:
IF(COUNTIFS($F$2:$F$12;$A2;$G$2:$G$12;"")=0;TRUE;FALSE) will count how many rows got same name and non blank attributes in Sheet2. If 0, then it will return True and highlight row.
IF(COUNTIFS($F$2:$F$12;$A2;$G$2:$G$12;$B2)=0;TRUE;FALSE) will count how many rows got same name and blank attributes. If 0, then it will return True and will highlight
With the initial IF you can blanks or non blanks attributes, just to make sure you count all posibilities of values.
I've uploaded a sample to mi Gdrive in case you want to download and get the formulas autotranslated opening at your PC.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Im4LoaK4EIvINBj7tfyEcYk9juWUp7zr
Hope you can adapt this to your needs.
#Foxfire And Burns And Burns helped me to solve my problem - I have modified his formulae slightly, to remove the double COUNTIFS, and to account for rows in the master data where both cells are blank - below is what I used.
=IF (OR($A2<>"",$B2<>""),
(IF(COUNTIFS($D$2:$D$12,$A2,$E$2:$E$12,IF($B2="","",$B2))=0,TRUE,FALSE)
)
)
This works by returning TRUE or FALSE from the following logical checks - if the final result is TRUE, then the formatting appears.
OR($A2<>"",$B2<>"") - Checks is either of the cells in the master are not blank. - If both cells are blank, this returns FALSE, and does not format anything (see A10:B10).
IF(COUNTIFS($D$2:$D$12,$A2,$E$2:$E$12,[see point 3])<1,TRUE,FALSE) - This counts the number of times that both the range $D$2:$D$12 contains the value of cell $A2, AND the range $E$2:$E$12 contains the value of cell $B2. If that number is <1, (zero matches), then the statement returns TRUE and implements the formatting.
IF($B2="","",$B2) - This nested IF statement checks if Cell $B2 is blank, and returns "" if it is blank, or keeps the value of $B2 otherwise. This is because COUNTIFS would see the cell as a 'zero' when blank otherwise (see A9:B9).
I have not used a similar nested if to check if $A2 is blank, because it should not be blank, so it's useful to highlight that the user has made an error in data entry here, too (see A2:B2 - this will remain red once the user inputs a name, as it will no longer match D2:E2.)
Reference image below:
I want to concatenate the value of two columns in the current sheet and then result should be compared with the concatenation of two column value in another sheet.
e.g - The entered value in Column W and X in current sheet after concatenation should be compared with the existing value in column Y and column Z(after concat) of another sheet.
I have tried using the formula COUNTIF(Sheet2!CONCAT($W$2,$X$2:$Y$2,$Z$2),A2)>0 and some different alteration in this but it seems COUNTIF has range and criteria as argument and this is string which is causing error.
If you want to compare, a simple '=' will do.
Concatenation can be done using '&'.
in current sheet:
=W1&X1=Sheet2!Y1&Sheet2!Z1
will return TRUE if both concatenations are equal and FALSE if they are not.
To find the value W1&X1 in the entire range, I suggest you use a help column (unless you are willing to write a macro). In the help column of sheet1, you concatenate the values (=W1&X1 - drag down). In the hlep column of sheet2 you do the same. Then you make an additional column to check for matches, by using
=match(ValueHelpColSheet1,HelpColSheet2,0)
This formula returns the row number in which the match is found and an error when the corresponding value is not found. You can replace this error with something else using IFERROR if you want to.
I have the following formula to make a unique list from column plant in table 15:
{=IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant];MATCH(0;COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2;Tabel15[Plant]);0));"")}
This formula is working, but when there is just 1 value in column plant the formula gives a value of 0. This is wrong because it should return the value.
Does anyone know how I can adapt this formula to make it work?
I wanted to change it to this:
{=IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[plant])>0;INDEX(Tabel15[Plant];MATCH(0;COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2;Tabel15[Plant]);0));Kopie - datablad$G$2)}
But it doesn't work either.
Good mock example. Try and see if this works:
The formula counts the unique cells against another list. The unique list expects to take the first row, no matter what. It also expects you to have more than one value in your duplicate list. If it doesn't you can't compare since it expect duplicates and it throws an error, #N/A. This is mask as blank cell since it's wrapped in IFERROR:
"Unique formula" = IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF($Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),"")
To solve this we check how many values it exist in our duplicate list:
=IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,... "Unique formula" ... ,Tabel15[Plant]) //***//
This will give us this result.
Then you probably don't want duplicates...
So we need to check if previous rows contain any of the values the formula would return.
The VLOOKUP formula do that for us, and as lookup value we use the formula above //***// and lookup range will be our current column: $Q$1:Q2. NOTICE this is a dynamic range so Q2 is relative reference (no $).
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF($Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),$Q$1:Q2,1,FALSE))
So the Final result we need to apply is this in Cell Q3:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,1,FALSE)),IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),"")
The macro error can be ignored by:
If Not IsError(Sheets("Hulpblad").Range("B6").Value) Then
t = Sheets("Hulpblad").Range("B6").Value
'Code...
End If
there is no problem in your formula, it is just telling that there are blanks in the range, 0 means blank. the formula is treating the blank as a value and also considering it in the unique value calculations.
If you want to remove 0 you can just insert an if over your formula to remove it. like
=if(formula = 0, "", formula)
or in orignal form
=IF( (IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2,Tabel15[Plant]),0)),""))=0,"",IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2,Tabel15[Plant]),0)),""))
or go in the cell formatting and change the format to display 0 as a dash.
sometimes blank is also used as error checking, you can apply such formulae as well to check how many are blank, maybe that would someday be used to check any data entry problems.
I have an Excel file with 2 sheets - one sheet contains my items, prices, codes, etc. and the other sheet is for cross-matching with competitors.
I've included an Excel file and image below.
I want to be able to generate my code automatically when manually entering any of my competitor's codes. I was able to do INDEX/MATCH but I was only able to match with one column (I'm assuming they're all in one sheet to make it easier). Here is my formula:
=INDEX(C:C,MATCH(K2,E:E,0)
So this is looking only in E:E, when I tried to enter a different column such as C:C or D:D it returns an error.
I tried to do the MATCH as C:G but it gave an error right away.
The reason why match gave you error is because it's looking for an array and you put in multiple columns.
There is definitely a more elegant way to do this but this is the first one that I came up with.
=IFERROR(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(K2,C:C,0)),IFERROR(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(K2,D:D,0)),IFERROR(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(K2,E:E,0)),IFERROR(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(K2,F:F,0)),IFERROR(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(K2,G:G,0)),"")))))
Index/Match Combination
Please try this formula:
{=INDEX($B$2:$B$5,MATCH(1,(K2=$C$2:$C$5)+(K2=$D$2:$D$5)+(K2=$E$2:$E$5)+(K2=$F$2:$F$5)+(K2=$G$2:$G$5),0))}
Instruction: Paste the formula {without the curly brackets} to the formula bar and hit CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER while the cell is still active. This will create an array formula. Hence, the curly brackets. Please take note though that manually entering the curly brackets will not work.
Description:
The INDEX function returns a value or the reference to a value from within a table or range.1
The MATCH function searches for a specified item in a range of cells, and then returns the relative position of that item in the range.2
Syntax:
The INDEX function has two forms—Array and Reference form. We're going use the Reference form in this case.
INDEX(reference, row_num, [column_num], [area_num])1
MATCH(lookup_value, lookup_array, [match_type])2
Explanation:
To simplify, we're going to use this form:
INDEX(reference, MATCH(lookup_value, lookup_array, [match_type]))
The INDEX function returns a value from the reference My code column (B1:B5) based on the row_num argument, which serves as an index number to point to the right cell, and we're going to do that by substituting row_num with MATCH function.
MATCH function, on the other hand, returns the relative position of a value in competitorn column that matches the value in individual cells of the competitor code column.
To make it work with multiple lookup range, we're going to create arrays of boolean values (TRUE/FALSE, aka logical values) by comparing values from individual cells in competitor code column with values in individual competitorn columns. Now, we convert these boolean values into numerical values by performing a mathematical operation that does not alter its implied value (i.e. TRUE=1, FALSE=0). We're going to add these values directly to make it simple. The resulting array have four index with two possible values: 1 or 0. Since each item in MATCH's lookup_array is unique, then there can be only one TRUE or 1. The rest are FALSE or 0's. So, with that knowledge, we're going to use it as our lookup_value.
Let's dissect the formula:
=INDEX(B2:B5,MATCH(1,(K2=C2:C5)+(K2=D2:D5)+(K2=E2:E5)+(K2=F2:F5)+(K2=G2:G5),0))
My code 2 = INDEX({"My code 1";"My code 2";"My code 3";"My code 4"},MATCH)
My code 2 = INDEX({"My code 1";"My code 2";"My code 3";"My code 4"},(2))
2 = MATCH(1,(K2=C2:C5)+(K2=D2:D5)+(K2=E2:E5)+(K2=F2:F5)+(K2=G2:G5),0)
2 =MATCH(1,
{FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE}+
{FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE}+
{FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE}+
{FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE}+
{FALSE;TRUE;FALSE;FALSE},0))
OR
=MATCH(1,
{0;0;0;0}+
{0;0;0;0}+
{0;0;0;0}+
{0;0;0;0}+
{0;1;0;0},0))
=========
{0;1;0;0},0))
2 = MATCH(1,{0;1;0;0},0))
I hope this answer is helpful.
References and links:
INDEX function
MATCH function
Create an array formula
After hours of searching and trying I have conceded defeat and ask the wisdom of this community for help.
The Goal:
- Match Customer ID and return Value 1 and Value 2 for each date range. (area in red box)
Restrictions keeping me for getting an easy solution:
- Data cannot be modified in any way (area in black box), It is in another sheet and cannot have helper columns added to it
- Data is separated by a header that is constant with only date range changing, however data is dynamic in length
- Macros are not allowed on this worksheet, so solution must be a formula
Current angle of attack (for cell H2 only) :
=VLOOKUP(G1,("B"&(MATCH(G2,B:B,0)+ROW(B:B)-1)&":"&"D"&(MATCH(G3,B:B,0)+ROW(B:B)-1)),2,FALSE)
This tries to define the Vlookup range by matching the dates and inserting the found row numbers.
=("B"&(MATCH(G2,B:B,0)+ROW(B:B)-1)&":"&"D"&(MATCH(G3,B:B,0)+ROW(B:B)-1))
returns the correct range, but when it is inserted into the range target of Vlookup I get a Value Error. Another failing is that it would not work for the last section of data as it will be missing an end header with date.
Bellow is a very simplified version of the data i will be working with:
Thanks for any and all help on this head scratcher
If I understand your requirements correctly, what about the following to return Value1:
=VLOOKUP(G1,OFFSET(B1,MATCH(G2,B:B,0),0,IFERROR(MATCH("Dates",OFFSET(A1,MATCH(G2,B:B,0),0,COUNTA(A:A),1),0),COUNTA(A:A)),3),2,FALSE)
This uses the OFFSET function to establish your VLOOKUP range. Using the 4th and 5th parameters returns a range instead of a single cell.
Two of the MATCH functions look for the text of the date range specified in G2. The other MATCH function looks for the next instance of the text "Dates" after the G2 match; however, the IFERROR function protects the last range (since there is not another "Dates" cell) and makes the range as large as could be needed to cover the final date range.
To modify it to return Value2, change the "2" before the "FALSE" to be "3".