Multiple Lookup Criteria - excel

I have this data below in Excel. What I want is to return the No.of Inactive months and the Inactive months themselves.
ACTIVITY MONTH
Jan17 Feb17 Mar17 Apr17 Reg Month No.Inactive months Months Inactive
User ID
1 5 38 0 60 Jan17
2 0 242 203 20 Feb17
3 30 0 0 30 Jan17
4 0 0 0 40 Apr17
5 0 0 16 0 Mar17

To count the inactive months you can use the following.
+---+------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--+-----------------+
| | A | B | C | D | E | F| G |
+---+------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--+-----------------+
| 1 | User | Jan 17 | feb-17 | mar-17 | apr-17 | | Inactive months |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 60 | | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 242 | 203 | 20 | | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 30 | | 2 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | | 3 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | | 3 |
+---+------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--+-----------------+
where in cell G2 the is this formula =COUNTIF(B2:E2,0)
To show the list of inactive months it's a little bit harder.
The point is that you have to explain how you want to see these results.
The easier way is to use the conditional formatting anc color the cell with zero (but this is not so useful). Others way could be to traspose the table and filter the column with zero. Another one could be to use a VBA macro....

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Excel lookup upwards

I am trying to lookup data that is the first occurrence of an ID looking upwards in excel. I would like to stop looking upwards when the cell value is ID is 0.
I have used the following to find the first occurrence when looking upwards:
In Cell D8:
=LOOKUP(2,1/($A$2:A8=C8),$B$2:B8)
In Cell D9:
=LOOKUP(2,1/($A$2:A9=C9),$B$2:B9)
For the case of desired outcome = 13 this works, however when there are consecutive IDs I would like to return the top most non-zero data field. Example desired outcome = 15 with the current formula returns 0.
How can I continue looking upwards until the top most ID = 2 before ID =0?
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| ID | Data | Lookup Value | Desired Outcome |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 2 | 18 | 1 | No Formula |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 1 | 25 | 2 | No Formula |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+------+--------------+-----------------+
Put this in D4 and copy down:
=IFERROR(LOOKUP(2,1/(($A$2:A4=C4)*($B$2:B4<>0)),$B$2:B4),0)
Put this in D4 and copy down:
=IFNA(LOOKUP(9^9,1/B$2:B4^-1/($A$2:A4=C4)),)

Graphical representation of a puzzle

Just for fun, I have written a solver for str8ts puzzles. While dealing with the REPL representation of a puzzle is okay for me, e.g.
STR8TS> (solve-puzzle #p"puzzles/2019-02-04-hard")
Initial puzzle:
-----------------------------------------------------
| -7 | -9 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -3 |
-----------------------------------------------------
Final state:
-----------------------------------------------------
| -7 | -9 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| 6 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
| -4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | -1 | -3 |
-----------------------------------------------------
Puzzle solved in 4.168 seconds.
I was wondering what could be a more elegant way to /draw/ the puzzle. The puzzle is stored in a two-dimensional array and 10 and negative number should be black fields.
Is there a library which allows for the generation of a simple png or svg file of the puzzle grid in b/w and the numbers as text?
I use Vecto for things like that. It's fairly low-level (kind of like writing PostScript code), but lets you draw stuff like the Movie Charts, so it's a matter of planning and practice to make what you like.

How to compose sales table for collections of items that are sold separately?

I want to compose sales table for purchased and sold items to see total profit. It's easy to do when items are purchased and sold individually or as a lot. But how to handle situation when one buys collection of items and sells them one by one. For example, I buy a collection (C) of a hammer and a screwdriver and sell tools separately. If I would enter data into simple table as in the image, I would get wrong profit result.
When there are only two items, I could divide their purchase price randomly, but when there are many items and not all of them are yet sold, I can't easily see if this collection already made profit or not.
I expect correct output of profit. In this case collection cost was 10 and selling price of all collection items was 13. Thus it should show profit of 3, not loss of -7. I was thinking of adding 2 new column, like IsCollection, CollectionID. Then derive a formula, which would use either simple subtraction or would check price of a whole collection and subtract it from the sum of items that belong to that collection. Deriving such formula is another question... But maybe there is an easier way of accomplishing the same
I added a column COLLECTION to identify item who belong to a collection.
Then I used SUMIF to sum sell price for items which belong at the same collection.
Then I used IF in Profit column to use summed sell price or single sell price.
You need to define in some formula a range of cell (see below).
Problem: you can't add profit values to obtain Total profit.
I used opencalc (but it should be almost the same in Excel).
Content of
SUM_COLL (row2):
=SUMIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A2;$D$1:$D$22)
SUM_COLL (row3):
=SUMIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A3;$D$1:$D$22)
and so on.
Profit (row2):
=IF(A2<>"";E2-C2;D2-C2)
Profit (row3):
=IF(A3<>"";E3-C3;D3-C3)
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| COLLECTION | Item name | Purch Price | Sell Price | SUM_COLL | Profit |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | A | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | B | 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C1 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C2 | 10 | 6 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| D | D1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 16 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | E | 8 | 12 | 0 | 4 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| D | D2 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 16 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
Update:
I added two more column to make Profit summable:
COUNT_COLL (row2):
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A2)
COUNT_COLL (row3):
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A3)
Profit_SUMMABLE (row2)
=IF(A2<>"";(E2-C2)/G2;D2-C2)
Profit_SUMMABLE (row3)
=IF(A3<>"";(E3-C3)/G3;D3-C3)
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| COLLECTION | Item name | Purch Price | Sell Price | SUM_COLL | Profit | COUNT_COLL | Profit_SUMMABLE |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | A | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | B | 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C1 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C2 | 10 | 6 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| D | D1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | E | 8 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| D | D2 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
...
...
| TOTAL | | | | | 87.6 | | 37.6 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+

Excel: Give scores based on range, where max = 1 and min = 10

I have following problem:
I want to give scores to a range of numbers from 1-10 for example:
| | A | B |
|---|------|----|
| 1 | 1209 | 1 |
| 2 | 401 | 7 |
| 3 | 123 | 9 |
| 4 | 49 | 10 |
| 5 | 30 | 10 |
(Not sure if B is 100% correct but roughly)
I got the B values with
=ABS(CEILING(A1;MAX($A$1:$A$32)/10)*10/MAX($A$1:$A$32)-11)
It seems to work but if I for example take numbers like
| | A | B |
|---|------|----|
| 1 | 100 | 1 |
| 2 | 90 | 2 |
| 3 | 80 | 3 |
| 4 | 70 | 4 |
| 5 | 50 | 6 |
But I want 50 to be 10.
I would like to have it scalable so I can do it with a 1-10 or 1-100 or 5-27 or whatever scale and with however many numbers in the list and whatever numbers to score from.
Thanks!
Use this formula:
=$E$1 + ROUND((MIN($A:$A)-A1)/((MAX($A:$A)-MIN($A:$A))/($E$1-$E$2)),0)
It is scalable. You put the max and min in E1 and E2.

How to get the cell with the highest number, work with it, get the next highest and so on in excel?

I'm trying to get a cell with value BBBBBBBGGGGGJJJJCCCCDDDDAA from these cells:
-----------------------------------------
| 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
-----------------------------------------
So it gets the highest value and writes the cell's horizontal address (that might have an offset) that many times. Then gets the next highest and does the same thing until it reaches the zeroes. Is that possible in excel?
additional samples:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | GGGGGDDDAA |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | GGGGGCC |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | BBBBBBBEEEEFFFGGGCCDD |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 4 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | IIIIIIIIBBBBBBBDDDDDDDEEEEEEEJJJJJJJAAAA |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 10| JJJJJJJJJJEEEEEEEEGGGGGGGGIIIIIIIBBDD |
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