I have SET 1
CLASS
Student
TEST
SCORE
A
1
1
46
A
1
2
50
A
1
3
45
A
2
1
45
A
2
2
47
A
2
3
31
A
3
1
34
A
3
2
45
B
1
1
36
B
2
1
31
B
2
2
41
B
3
1
50
C
1
1
42
C
3
1
31
and SET 2
CLASS
SIZE
YEARS
A
39
7
B
20
12
C
31
6
and wish to COMBINE to make SET 3
CLASS
STUDENT
TEST
SCORE
SIZE
YEARS
A
1
1
46
39
7
A
1
2
50
39
7
A
1
3
45
39
7
A
2
1
45
39
7
A
2
2
47
39
7
A
2
3
31
39
7
A
3
1
34
39
7
A
3
2
45
39
7
B
1
1
36
20
12
B
2
1
31
20
12
B
2
2
41
20
12
B
3
1
50
20
12
C
1
1
42
31
6
C
3
1
31
31
6
so basically add the SIZE and YEARS columns from SET 2 and merge on CLASS onto SET 1. In excel how you can do this? I need to match on CLASS
Define both sets as tables and “left join” in PowerQuery. There you can choose the columns of the resulting table.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/merge-queries-left-outer
If you have Set 1 on the top left of a worksheet "Set1" and Set 2 on the top left of a worksheet "Set2", then you can use the formula
=VLOOKUP(A2;'Set2'!$A$2:$C$4;2;FALSE), where $A$2:$C$4 is the range of Set2, and A2 is the class value from Set1, which is what is used to do the lookup in Set2. The next argument, 2, means to take the second row from Set2, and the FALSE at the end means that you only want exact matches on the CLASS. You can do auto-fill with this formula, and do similar steps for the years. If you look up the help for VLOOKUP within Excel, that should help you to understand how it works.
Your first set of data is essentially your primary set of data that you just want to add attribute columns to. I built this example on Google Sheets which should help explain. Using spill formulas, only a few cells are needed with their own formulas. You can see them as they are highlighted in yellow. When you use in Excel, obviously make sure you change the column references, but this would get you the answer.
Note you have to have SpillRange in Excel for this to work. To test, see if you have the formula =unique()
This solution may work for you if both sets start in the same column. As example in my image, both of them start at column A. You can get all data with a single VLOOKUP formula:
Formula in cell E2 is:
=VLOOKUP($A2;$A$22:$R$25;COLUMN($B22);FALSE)
Notice the mixed references at first and third argument and absolute references in the second one. Third argument is critical, because is the relational position between both sets, that's the reason it's easier if both sets start at same column. If not, you'll need to adjust this argument substracting or adding, depending on the case.
Anyways, with a single formula, you can get any number of columns. The only disavantage of this formula is that you need to manually drag to right until you got all the columns (10, 30 or whatever). You'll notice you are done because the formula will raise an error:
This error means you are trying to get a referenced outside of your column area.
Hope someone can help me out with what is probably quite a simple thing in Excel but I just can't seem to be able to work it out. I have a table of numbers which correspond to colour codes:
A
B
C
D
E
F
2
2
2
2
2
24
36
36
2
2
2
24
2
2
2
2
2
2
36
2
36
2
2
24
2
2
36
2
2
2
2
36
2
2
2
24
2
2
2
2
36
2
What I would like to able to have is some way of having a total based on the criteria:
Count the total number of times '36' appears in the table only if the row has '24' in column F
I've tried using COUNTIF and COUNTIFS but that only works for matching sized columns of data.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Use SUMPRODUCT:
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:E7=36)*(F1:F7=24))
I have a situation that for every 6 contracts I sign I am able to sign an additional 1. That also means that for every additional 6 contracts I can sign another contract. This of course goes on for ever.
Contract Additional Additional(2) Total
6 1 0 7
12 2 0 14
18 3 0 21
24 4 0 28
30 5 0 35
36 6 1 43
...
Is there away of doing generating the total without using VBA?
Thanks
Your "Total" column is related to the "Contract" column by:
Total = INT(Contract+(Contract-6)/5)+1
So the formula to fill down would be =INT(A2+(A2-6)/5)+1 if your "Contract" column is column A.
Put this in the first cell and copy down:
=7*ROW($ZZ1)+INT((ROW($ZZ1))/6)
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I am looking to create an excel formula that will number my rows based on the number of times a clientID shows up.
Example:
column A (clientID) shows something like this
111
111
111
222
333
333
So I want a formula to put in column B (excel formula) so that it will appear like this:
1
2
3
1
1
2
(since 111 shows up 3 times, 222 shows up only once, and 333 shows up twice)
together the final result would be:
A B
111 1
111 2
111 3
222 1
333 1
333 2
Many thanks in advance for your help!!
maybe something like,
=countif(a$1:a1, a1)
I'm facing a issue with ranking in Excel particularly in regards to tie breaking. I tried several options but i guess they don't fit my issue. Its quite simple really, I'll explain:
The Data:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
87 83 74 95 69 90 73 0 74 85
121 121 96 121 121 121 121 83 121 121
As you can see its easy for me to rank the first line (I'm working in columns instead of rows for the data). When i do a Rank Function gives the following result:
3 5 6 1 9 2 8 10 6 4
Which is correct.
The problem arises in the second line. There are ties because all of them reach the maximum of 121:
1 1 9 1 1 1 1 10 1 1
What i would like to do is take the first row as a tie breaker. So even if there is a tie the first line which was firstly text but now is a sequence from 1 to 10 could provide as secondary criteria to order the rank, thus giving the following ranking line:
1 2 9 3 4 5 6 10 7 9
Could one achieve this result?
Thank You very much in advance.
You need a helper row to break the tie. You can add a fraction of the first row to the second row to create a new row & use the new row to rank
A4 = A3+(A2/(MAX($A$2:$J$2)+1))
Using the MAX I ensure the fraction is less than 1 which is adequate to break ties in this case.
A6 = RANK(A4,$A$4:$J$4)
You can hide the helper row if you dont want to show it.