I have a VLOOKUP formula which needs to return true or false depending on certain conditions in another worksheet Sheet2.
In Sheet2, a cell can either be blank, contain a zero or a number.
My formula needs to return TRUE if the cell has a number or is blank, and FALSE if the cell contains a zero. I thought the following formula would work, but it's assuming zero is blank and so returns false for both zero and blank cells.
VLOOKUP(C2,Sheet2!$A$2:$J$100,10, FALSE)<>0
I can solve this by using an OR statement, like this:
OR(VLOOKUP(C2,Sheet2!$A$2:$J$100,10, FALSE)<>0,
VLOOKUP(C2,Sheet2!$A$2:$J$100,10, FALSE)= "")
But I want to know if there is a way of doing this which does not require writing out the whole VLOOKUP formula twice. In other words, is there a way to simplify this?
Appreciate the help!
=NOT(LEFT(VLOOKUP(C2,Sheet2!$A$2:$J$100,10, FALSE),8192)="0")
Just compares the left 8192 char of the text string match to "0" and inverts. Although it would work with any number greater than 1, I chose 8192 is because that is the max cell length allowed in excel. Bonus :P
This seems to work:
=IFERROR(--(""&VLOOKUP(C2,Sheet2!$A$2:$J$100,10, FALSE)),1)<>0
Related
=(Countifs(B:B;”*”;F:F;”<>*1”))
Why doesn't this work?
I want to count all the rows in the sheet, except the ones that has a number that ends with 1 in column F. It just count all the rows, even the ones in column F that ends with 1.
How do I exclude those?
edit
Some more information!
This is a sample of the data:
Could be up to 8000 rows some days. Column B always says "Independent instruction" so I'm using that as a base to count all the rows. Column F contain only numbers, or blank cells (meaning a number will be added later). I still want to count those rows as well (that's blank). It's just the rows that has a number in column F that ends with 1 that I want to exclude!
SUMPRODUCT gives a bit more flexibility for criteria that involve more than straightforward string-matching:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN($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$25<1000),1,0))
Example:
I am using the formula:
=(Cost!C8)
to get values from another sheet using named ranges. I want this to only show a value if there is a value in the corresponding cell of the other sheet, however, this formula returns a value of 0 even if the cell on the other sheet is empty. How can I make it so that the formula returns nothing (is blank) when the cell it refers to is empty?
Invoice
There are a number of ways to prevent zero's from showing when you refer to a blank cell.
The easiest if probably an IF statement. If your formula is:
=(Cost!C8)
...use:
=IF(Cost!C8="","",Cost!C8)
Similarly you could show a default value, or a label like <No Data> with a variation:
=IF(Cost!C8="","<No Data>",Cost!C8)
Note that Cost!C8 is not a Named Range; it's a cell reference, referring to another worksheet.
More Information:
Office Support : Create conditional formulas
TechRepublic : Three ways to hide zero values in an Excel sheet
Use,
=Cost!C8&""
'alternate for Qty
=TEXT(Cost!C8, "[<>0]0;;;")
'alternate for currency
=TEXT(Cost!C8, "[<>0]$ 0.00;;;")
'alternate for text items
=TEXT(Cost!C8, ";;;#")
Granted, this actually converts your true numbers to text-that-looks-like-a-number and that is generally a practice to be avoided but they will be converted back to true numbers through any maths operation like addition or multiplication.
A blank cell is considered numeric by nature. This can be tested with =ISNUMBER(<blank_cell>). The closest thing to a blank number is zero so you are returning those as the value of the blank cells you are linking to.
Use ISBLANK with IF
=IF(ISBLANK(Cost!C8),"",Cost!C8)
If you just want it to not be visible, you might consider using conditional formatting to make the text color white when the cell is equal to 0. This way the actual value remains 0 so it won't break downstream formulas.
A nice, slightly simpler, alternative is to concatenate the named range with an empty string.
=MyRange --> 0
=""&MyRange --> ""
This is equivalent to TEXT(MyRange) more concise than IF(ISBLANK(MyRange), "", MyRange)
I've been struggling with this for a while now, i use a Sumifs in excel to evaluate over a range of data,
My problem is that it returns the blank cells as zeros instead of blank,
is there a way to make the cell return as blank when looking at multiple ranges,
The above link is what the data looks like and the below link is what the sumifs returns, i need it to return blanks where the data is blank instead of zero,
The equation i am using is =SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C;Sheet1!$A:$A;Sheet2!$A2;Sheet1!$B:$B;Sheet2!$B2) where sheet 1 is the sheet with the data and sheet 2 is the table where the sumifs evaluates to,
Also if the value is blank in the data it must return blank, but if it is zero in the data it must return as a zero.
Please someone help me.
You can use IF condition to check if the total is zero.
=IF(SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C,Sheet1!$A:$A,Sheet2!$A2,Sheet1!$B:$B,Sheet2!$B2)=0,"",SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C,Sheet1!$A:$A,Sheet2!$A2,Sheet1!$B:$B,Sheet2!$B2))
Apply cell formatting to hide zeros 0;-0;;#
I have a row with multiple blank values. I want the answer to be "" if all values are blank. If any of the cells contain a value, I would like to take the SUM of those cells, and add 10 to it. The formula I am using is below, and it always displays the answer as "10", even if all cells are blank. Please help.
=IF(ISBLANK(A1:D1),"",SUM(A1:D1)+10)
ISBLANK() only works on a single cell. You want to use COUNTA() instead.
Counts the number of cells in a range that are not empty
=IF(COUNTA(A1:D1) = 0,"",SUM(A1:D1)+10)
In Excel we have the VLOOKUP function that looks for a value in a column in a table and then returns a value from a given column in that table if it finds something. If it doesn't, it produces an error.
Is there a function that just returns true or false depending on if the value was found in a column or not?
You could wrap your VLOOKUP() in an IFERROR()
Edit: before Excel 2007, use =IF(ISERROR()...)
You still have to wrap it in an ISERROR, but you could use MATCH() instead of VLOOKUP():
Returns the relative position of an
item in an array that matches a
specified value in a specified order.
Use MATCH instead of one of the LOOKUP
functions when you need the position
of an item in a range instead of the
item itself.
Here's a complete example, assuming you're looking for the word "key" in a range of cells:
=IF(ISERROR(MATCH("key",A5:A16,FALSE)),"missing","found")
The FALSE is necessary to force an exact match, otherwise it will look for the closest value.
Just use a COUNTIF ! Much faster to write and calculate than the other suggestions.
EDIT:
Say you cell A1 should be 1 if the value of B1 is found in column C and otherwise it should be 2. How would you do that?
I would say if the value of B1 is found in column C, then A1 will be positive, otherwise it will be 0. Thats easily done with formula: =COUNTIF($C$1:$C$15,B1), which means: count the cells in range C1:C15 which are equal to B1.
You can combine COUNTIF with VLOOKUP and IF, and that's MUCH faster than using 2 lookups + ISNA. IF(COUNTIF(..)>0,LOOKUP(..),"Not found")
A bit of Googling will bring you tons of examples.
We've always used an
if(iserror(vlookup,"n/a",vlookup))
Excel 2007 introduced IfError which allows you to do the vlookup and add output in case of error, but that doesn't help you with 2003...
You can use:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(lookup value,table array,column no,FALSE)),"FALSE","TRUE")
ISNA is the best function to use. I just did. I wanted all cells whose value was NOT in an array to conditionally format to a certain color.
=ISNA(VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet1!$A:$D,2,FALSE))