When I try to enter Vlookup formula manually in Excel, I get the following error;
excel manual vlookup error. This error appears while I'm defining the second element of the formula from another excel file and it doesn't let me to define the area.And it directs me to use formula wizard, however it's not useful and efficient for me. Has anyone experienced this problem before?
You may find the formula I try to use as below;
=vlookup(S2;'[Copy of Material Master_S112.xlsx]q_S112'!$G$2:$I$7
after this point it doesn'let me to make any change and directs me to formula wizard.
Thank you for your help in advance
VLOOKUP() takes 4 arguments:
Value to seek.
Target range.
Number of result column relative to the first column of target range. E.g. if your target range is $G:$I and you need results from column H this parameter should be 2, if you want results from column I - then 3.
Parameter specifying whether you need exact (TRUE) or approximate (FALSE) match. Set it to FALSE in most cases.
And of course you need closing parenthesis ) at the end.
So the correct formula should look something like this:
=VLOOKUP(S2;'[Copy of Material Master_S112.xlsx]q_S112'!$G$2:$I$7;3;FALSE)
If you use Ctrl-Shift-Down after you have started to enter the second parameter you will get the "you have entered too few arguments" message.
You can only use Ctrl-Shift-Down after selecting a cell but before you have entered anything for the second VLOOKUP parameter.
As I mentioned in my comment, arguments in Excel formulas are separated by commas, not semicolons.
For example,
=VLOOKUP(S2, '[Copy of Material Master_S112.xlsx]q_S112'!$G$2:$I$7, 2, FALSE)
Thank you for all your answers. It's kind of interesting but, I have to hit at first shift and then control not to get this error. It wasn't like that before but when I hit control first and then shift+down it gives the error. But at least it works like this.
if you use win 10 , you must change the regoin configoration .
in control panel > region >formats> additional setting> list separator
change content to ";"
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I have a problem with an excel file.
I am trying to extract information from a column. This information appears randomly, before a ".", "-" or ":". So an example would be:
CELL
EXPECTED RESULT
hi.this is:
hi
maybe I- this works
maybe I
Who is: what. like-
Who is
I am using the formula:
=MID(A1,1,FIND("-",A1,1)-1)
Using this one, I get the information I need, but I am not able to add the other characters (".", ":",...) to the formula. Also I have the problem that in a same cell, I can have several of this characters, and I only want the information before the FIRST character (of all posible kinds) that appears in the cell.
I dont know if somebody can help me here.
Thank you very much in advance!
You can try:
Formula in B1:
=TEXTBEFORE(A1:A3,{".","-",":"})
If you don't yet have acces to TEXTBEFORE() then try:
=LEFT(A1,MIN(FIND({".","-",":"},A1&".-:"))-1)
I suppose this is an array-entered formula in versions prior to ms365.
I want to sum a column of an Excel tab (depending on the content of another column) which can have different names.
Therefore I dynamically build the name of the tab and then use it in the SUMIF-function.
However, I get #REFERENCE! error and I don't know why?! I can reference single cells this way but not a range which I have to in this case. Can someone see what I'm doing wrong or maybe help me with a workaround?
=SUMIF(INDIRECT(CHAR(39)&Settings!$D$3&"-V"&L$7&CHAR(39)&"!B3:B100";FALSE);B44;INDIRECT(CHAR(39)&Settings!$D$3&"-V"&L$7&CHAR(39)&"!H3:H100";FALSE))
Area to sum as you can see below:-
Cell where I want the sum to be:-
=SUMIF(INDIRECT("'"&YEAR($E$5)&"-V"&L$7&"'!$M$3:$M$10"),"*"&$C9,INDIRECT("'"&YEAR($E$5)&"-V"&L$7&"'!$O$3:$O$10"))
This is the correct use (note I have used the actual character ' instead of CHAR(39))
The wildcard is used to match anything before the cells content as your data contains PL before it and also note the use of absolute referencing.
You will need to change the , to ; to match your regional settings...
I was using this Index Match formula with no issues:
=INDEX('Rain Data For 9 Stations'!A:S,MATCH(RainWICSProximity!J100,'Rain Data For 9 Stations'!A:A,0),INDEX($N$4:$N$12,MATCH(H100,$M$4:$M$12,0)))
I added more data, and it now only returns some values, while returning #N/A for others, even though there is a value to return.
Index returns the value in a range.
What you are doing is =INDEX(MATCH(),INDEX(MATCH())). It works due to some luck, because sometimes the second Index() returns cell with value as well. However, if the second index returns cell with an empty value, then the first index has to return something like =Index(4,0), which is #N/A.
In general, try =Index(Match(),Match()).
To see where exactly the error is, select the cell with the formula, go to the Excel ribbon >Formulas>Evaluate Formula.
Then press a few times Evaluate Formula and see what happens:
See this answer for step-by-step formula evaluation.
#Vityata was correct, Index, Match, Match works wonderfully, also, my original formula does work.
The issue was, I had calculate set to Manual, not auto, in excel settings.
I believe you need to expand your range. I am not real familiar with Index Match but trying to learn to use it more, but I believe it is kind of like VLOOKUP. Your ranges $N$4:$N$12 and $M$4:$M$12 is where it is looking right? If so, those ranges are not expanding even though you added more data. So you need to expand it to like $M$4:$M$100 or whatever. Or expand it to find the last row which is what I usually do. like mine would be "$M$4:$M" & LastRow & "" or something like that.
I have a cell (A1) in sheet 4 that is containing the following formula:
=CELL("contents",Sheet1!B61)
However, I want to find the content of the result. When I try to formulate it
=CELL("contents",A1)
The result is the same.
What I want to find is the content of =CELL("contents",Sheet1!B61). Is it possible to enclose it with a cell function twice? I've been trying to formulate it but there is always an error.
I cannot imagine a scenario in which it would be necessary to generate text strings representing cell addresses and then reference these in formulas. However:
=CELL("contents",INDIRECT(Sheet1!B61))
is what you require.
Regards
=CELL("contents",Sheet1!B61) is the same as =Sheet1!B61.
I think you are looking for INDIRECT which will translate a cell address given as text to the value contained in the cell.
=INDIRECT(Sheet1!B61)
Idk, try a nested CELL(CELL=(...)) not sure if it will work but...
Also, can you clarify exactly what you want? When you have
=CELL("contents",Sheet1!B61)
I assume the result is a number or text or whatever
Then you say, "I want to find the content of the result". What do you mean here? You want the cell (A1) in sheet 4 to display something other than the result of the formula above? If so, just change the formula. I think I'm a little lost here...
While i have seen this topic answered before i cant seem to understand the solution :(
Here is my worksheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AsCQyX3EZ40SdC1FNFBjVDh6d01iY2g0WnVXOU5GeFE&output=xls
As you can see i need the second INDEX in the first sheet to return the second value looked, but instead (as expected) it shows the first one again.
I am not the best with excel, explain slowly and i will understand fast!
Thanks in advance!
Try this "array formula" in Calculator sheet cell A3
=IFERROR(INDEX(IngredientDB!B$1:B$100,SMALL(IF(IngredientDB!$A$1:$A$100=$B$1,ROW(IngredientDB!$A$1:$A$100)),ROWS(A$3:A3))),"")
confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and copied across and down. When you run out of entries you get blanks - assumes up to 100 rows of data, increase as required
If you wanted to go the pivot table route you can start with this as a base and then customize it to your exact liking.:
Start with your info:
Then add a pivot of your data:
Then set the properties as so and then you can select the search terms, you can also change the settings to allow someone to type it in also:
The result will be as so: