I've changed the column to text a couple of different ways, but still cannot get the numbers with alpha to sort correctly. The three all number and four alpha numeric entries are sorting correctly. Anyone have a solution they can offer up? Thanks!
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Okay so I've spent some time digging through stack overflow other various websites, I'm not even sure this is possible but here's the example.
I have an excel sheet with quite a bit of information, in column A there are various types of information however I specifically only want the cells that have #####-###.
The issue is that the other users will sometimes replace the last 3 digits with question marks and similarly, when adding the dash it doesn't treat it as a number it's considered general format...
Like I said I maybe have the number 60613-555, then right below it part numbers/names etc, so I only want that cell with the project number to have the top line border...
Use this as the rule:
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("????-???",$A1))
And apply it to the columns desired:
I downloaded a file from a government source. There is a column of dates in mixed formats. Some appeared 12-25-99 while others were 25-Dec-99 and some were 12/25/99. I want to sort them newest to oldest. There are over 600,000 records but I tried everything on a sample of about 25 to save time.
I managed by brute force to get them all looking the same: 12/25/99. There is nothing I can do to get them to sort. Some of the list sort because they were all the same format to start with, generally 12-25-99 though it might have been 25-12-99. No matter. The ones that had slashes never integrated with the ones that started out with dashes.
I found 6 or 7 ideas on this site but none of them worked. Help if you think you can.
Thanks.
The data samples you list suggest that what you perceive as "dates" is at least partly text. Excel internally stores dates as numbers, with day values before and time values after the decimal point (or decimal comma, depending on your regional settings). These numbers can now be formatted to appear as dates.
To check which of the "dates" are really dates, select them all and change the format to "General". Any real dates will now show as numbers, whereas any "dates" that are really just text, will remain unchanged.
In order to sort this data chronologically, you will need to convert the text values to real dates.
There are several different approaches you could use for that. You could use a formula like DateValue() - this works well with text that has the date and month in the same order as your regional settings. So, if you use US settings with MDY order of a date, give that a try.
Otherwise, and especially if the original dates are a mix of DMY and MDY order, you will need to use more sophisticated data cleanup techniques, like Text To Columns or Power Query.
So this is the simplified question I broke down from a former question I had here: Excel help on combination of Index - match and sumifs? .
For this one, I have Table1 (the black-gray one) with two or more columns for adjustments for various order numbers. See this image below:
What I want to achieve is to have total adjustments for those order numbers that contain the numbers in Total Adjustment column in the blue table, each of which will depend on the cell beside it.
Example: Order number 17051 has two products: 17051A (Apple) and 17051B (Orange).
Now what I want to achieve in cell C10 is the sum of adjustment for both 17051A and 17051B, which will be: Apple Adjustment (5000) + Orange Adjustment (4500) = 9500.
The formula I used below (and in the image) kept giving me error messages, and this happens even before I add the adjustment for Orange.
=SUMIF(Text(LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5),"00000"),text(B10,"00000"),Table1[Apple Adjustment])
I have spent the whole day looking for a solution for this and didn’t even come close to find any. Any suggestion is appreciated.
Assuming your headers always have the text "adjustment" in them, you could use:
=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=B10&"")*(RIGHT($C$3:$F$3,10)="adjustment")*$C$4:$F$7)
In C10 you could add two sumproducts. This assumes that products are always 5 numbers long at the start. If not swop the 5 to use the length of the product reference part you are matching on.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=$B10),$D$4:$D$7)+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=$B10),$F$4:$F$7)
Which with table syntax is:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5)=$B10),Table1[Apple Adjustment])+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5)=$B10),Table1[Orange Adjustment])
Using LEN
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],LEN($B10))=$B10),Table1[Apple Adjustment])+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],LEN($B10))=$B10),Table1[Orange Adjustment])
I am multiplying by 1 to ensure Left, 5 becomes numeric.
I have a data list in Excel, I am looking to take the top 3 values for each number, and get the average for those 3 values quickly. I often work with lists of up to 50,000 lines which at any one time could convert to over 10,000 different column A numbers.
I understand basic pivot tables to get an average after the top 3 values are collected, but need to find a way to remove all values that are not the top 3,
I trust this may be an extremely simple ask, or complex and thank you in advance for your help.
you can use =LARGE(Array, k) formula. For example, =LARGE(B:B, 1) is for 1-largest number, =LARGE(B:B, 2) is for 2-largest number etc.
If column contains many duplicates, and you want to get all occurences of top three values, use this formula to get all of them (put:
=IF(LARGE(B:B,ROW(A1))>=LARGE(B:B,COUNTIF(B:B,LARGE(B:B,COUNTIF(B:B,MAX(B:B))+1))+COUNTIF(B:B,MAX(B:B))+1),LARGE(B:B,ROW(A1)),"")
If I sum a large column separately in individual sections, and sum those results, it adds up to be slightly different than if I sum the entire column at once.
The value is off by ~ 0.00000000001 - but my conditional formatting picks this up and it is different - despite the fact they are summing the same values.
The formatting of all cells are set to 'Number'.
I can't figure out why or how this would happen - does anyone have some idea? Has something like this happened to you before when working with accurate values?
I found this article on Microsoft's web site. It discusses limitations in Excel's arithmetic and possible ways to deal with them.
I can't imagine that your input numbers have 15 digits of precision, so probably the easiest solution is to round your multiplication/division/etc. results (which I assume you have to get you to the 15 decimal digits).