I'm trying to create an excel document with two sheets, the first one containing a list of fruit types, for example
ID Description
1 Apple
2 Orange
3 Pear
...
The second sheet would contain a reference to a row from the first sheet and some additional data.
For example
Fruit_ID Quantity Customer
1 12 Chris
3 7 Jenny
...
And when a user is adding a new row in the second sheet he would be presented with a drop down list of entries from the second sheet when setting the first column value.
The number of rows in the second sheet is dynamic ( user will be adding data into it).
How can I do this ?
Select the cells where you want to display dropdown.
Go to Data Tab > Data Validation
Enter the following criteria
Allow:List
Source: =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,1,0,COUNT(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$1048576))
Change the sheet name accordingly and it will show drop-down based on the Sheet1, column 1.
Let me know if it works.
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I have a table that looks like this:
Type Value
Movie 5
Food 3
Gas 10
Food 2
.... ....
And There's a second table I want to fill in with "Value" based on their type in the first table, so that the corresponding rows look like this:
Rent Food Movie Gas Clothing ... ( appear in specific order bc they are subcategories)
5
3
10
2
The title row is already there, so I was thinking there might be some kind of lookup method to do this? How do I do that?
your second table apperas to hold one value per row but it doesn't have a label. it does correlate to the original row number, is this by design or coincidence?
if this is by design then you can use those 2 columns, hide them if you like, get a unique list of categories by copying you r abels to a new colum, removing duplicates in the data tab, then paste special transpose in c1 to create colum headers.
so column a and b remain unchanged
row 1 contains header starting at column c
your data starts at c2
this is the formula
=Iferror(vlookup(C$1,$A2:$B2,2,false),"")
drag it down and to the right
you can copy paste special values when done to remove the formulas
for something with only a hundred or thousand cells this will be one of the easier options but i would not do this on large tables, for those i would use power query or VBA
Assuming your 1st table is in Sheet1 and 2nd table is in sheet2.. you may try to fill in Sheet2!A2
=IF(Sheet1!$A2=A$1,Sheet1!$B2,"")
and drag it all the way.. Hope you get how it works.. and what you need.
i have never used excel except for in college and well that was a while ago, what i have is 3 sheets sheet 1 contains all user information sheet 2 is company information and sheet 3 is company member information,
now what i need to do is this,
i need to loop through sheet 1 column K and search for what is not "Individual" then i need the value of sheet 1 column A and put that in sheet 3 column C
i also need the index of the same row that does not equal "Individual" and use that to grab the value of sheet 2 column A and put that in sheet 3 column B
hopefully that makes sense and is actually possible and any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
I have an issue that I've been scratching my head at; I've looked into the Index:Match lookup method, and V/HLookup, but I'm not sure these will help just yet. Here's what's happening:
I have two worksheets in excel-2007. One has a Customer ID column (which does and will have duplicate ID's in the instance that the customer did "x activity" more than one time in a month) and then the date that this happened in another column. The second sheet is for giving an overview of a specific day, IE what happened on 7-1-13.
The issue is that my raw data sheet is sorted via the first of the month descending, so 7-1,7-2,etc, and when I run the Vlookup, if a Customer ID has a record on 7-2 and on 7-15, the VLookup will pull data only from the 7-2 (first) row. Has anyone experienced this and found a workaround?
My current workaround would be to make either a new table for each day's data, or instead of using my VLookup of =Vlookup(A2, 'Data Sheet' A:D, 4, 0) to give the columns row numbers, like =Vlookup(A2, 'Data Sheet' A$1:D$30, 4, 0). This is a daily report, and that would be intense. Please help if you can!
(Another side note, I have one main sheet for the view, one data sheet where it's all collected, and then 30 sheets, one for each day of the month, this case being July). For each sheet, I've named them the day of the month, so I'm reflecting the data as such:
Sheets("7-1-13") has data from the 1st on it. The Data Sheet in it's entireity has data from 7-1-13 to 7-31-13. I need to reference ID's on the 1st to the data for the 1st and the 1st only.
I want to use something like this, but I'm having a hard time with it
=Vlookup(A2, 'Data Sheet', A:D (ONLY IF THE CREATE DATE OF THIS ITEM IS 7-1), 4,0)`
but of course it's not that easy :p
This may not give you your results in a format you like and still requires a bit of manual work, but without going the route of macros, I think this will get you one step closer. I thought of using an array formula to get all the IDs by a specific date.
Example:
A B
ID Date
1 5 7/1/2013
2 2 7/2/2013
3 5 7/3/2013
In this situation, I assume you want 5 from the first row to appear on your 7/1 sheet, 2 to appear on your 7/2 sheet, and 5 from the third row to appear on your 7/3 sheet
on your 7/1 sheet. you'll need to select the number of blank rows that matches your raw data (using the example above, you would be selecting A1:A3 on your 7/1 sheet). Once you have your cells selected, then enter the following formula in the formula bar and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. This is what makes the formula an array formula.
=((Raw_DataSheet!B1:B3=DATE(2013,7,1))*1)*Raw_DataSheet!A1:A3
What this formula does is looks at all the dates in B1:B3 and finds the ones that equal 7/1/2013. Since you're using an array formula, this gives you the array {TRUE,FALSE,FALSE}. Multiply this by 1, and you get the array {1,0,0}. You now have an array that has a 1 for each row of B1:B3 that was equal to 7/1/2013. This array {1,0,0} is then multiplied by your Customer IDs {5,2,5}
5 * 1 = 5
2 * 0 = 0
5 * 0 = 0
So now your entire formula is equal to the array {5,0,0}. Since you selected A1:A3 on your 7/1 sheet, the values that should appear should be
A
ID
1 5
2 0
3 0
From here, you can always filter out the 0's and you'd just have a list of all the IDs that had the date of 7/1 from your Raw Data Sheet. You would also then replicate this for each of your sheets and just change the date in the formula...Yes, I know, way more complicated than you probably wanted but it's what I came up with!
I need to find changed values in dataSet.
So I have 2 sheets with, in general, same data.
I have two columns: docID(which is unique key) and rev(which is not unique).
I need to find(highlight/display only/...) those rows, where for same docID from first sheet rev is different in the second sheet.
UPDATE 1
Sheet 1:
docID rev
1 5
2 6
3 1
Sheet 2:
docID rev
1 6
2 6
3 1
Only the first row makes an interest to me, as others did not changed.
UPDATE 2
simple if statement which should give some understanding what I need. In general this is done on similar test data set, so cells are incorrect.
=IF(NOT(AND($B6=Sheet1!$B6;$C6=Sheet1!$C6));1;0)
So values are NOT equal.
You can do this with a custom formula in Conditional Highlighting:
Select the top cell in the column docID column, then select the whole column (in the example, I assume that this is column A and you select A1 and the rev is in column B, same structure in both sheets. Adjust as to your needs)
Goto home->Conditional Formatting->New rules->Use formula to determine which cells to format and enter the following formula:
=VLOKUP(A1,Sheet1!$A:$B,2,0)<>B1
Click on format and select the format you need.
Done!
I have a very simple Excel book that I am trying to spiffy up. Here's what it looks like:
Sheet 1:
ID Name
1 Bob
2 Joe
3 Earl
Sheet 2:
Name ID Whatever
I would like when I type a name on sheet two for it to match it to a name in sheet 1 and fill in the id for that row in the field in sheet 2. So If I type "Joe" in sheet two it will fill in 2 in the id column.
My problem is slightly more complex than this, but I believe this is the crux of it for now.
You can use VLOOKUP to look up values that are to the right of the key. INDEX and MATCH can be used to look up values to the left of the key.
The formula in this case on Sheet2 would be
=INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,MATCH(A2,Sheet1!B:B,0))