Is there a way to execute a formula when a cell is clicked or get adress of selected cell and then if it matches execute formula without using VBA?
There is something that almost does want you want natively in Excel without VBA.
The CELL function allows you to access some (fairly limited) information about a particular cell. If you choose, you can direct the function to give you information about a particular cell, or you can let the function give you information about the last cell which had information entered in it.
For example, the following tells you the width of cell A1:
=CELL("width",A1)
Whereas the following (without a second argument provided) tells you the address of the last cell where data was entered:
=CELL("address")
For your purposes, you can use this information in other formulas to act based on where you have most recently entered data, like so:
=IF(CELL("address") = "$A$1", "A1 was the last cell entered!", "")
Related
I'm trying to create a formula that will take the contents from a cell on a different sheet. I don't want to just give the direct cell reference, because I want to be able to cut & paste this into different places and refer to a reference number to know which cell to get.
So, I'm using the Cell() function. But, when I enter something like =CELL("contents", Sheet1!A2), it returns the value of A2 on the current sheet, not on Sheet 1. Every other function I've tried recognizes Sheet 1 when it is given. (This example is just a trial. In reality I have to use Concat() & Indirect() to create the cell reference).
If it matters, I'm using Excel365
I would like to highlight a cell which is the closest the a specific value but still lower (below) or equal according to a formula.
For instance, if I have 14 in B4, I would like the cell 13 (or 14) highlighted but not 15 in the range.
The value I need to look for would be in B4 and the range that I must apply the highlight formula to would be L1:L371.
So far, the best result I was able to achieve was with (from what I was able to find using Google or Stackoverflow already existing content):
=SMALL($L1:$L317,COUNTIF($L1:$L371,"<="&$B$4))
Although, not only it selects the value I am looking for, it also selects all the values below.
May someone provide me some help so I can achieve the expected result please?
Thank you for your time and help, it is greatly appreciated.
Based on your description, it seems like you need to find the maximum value of a range (L1:L137) that is less than or equal to an input variable (B4) and highlight that value in the search range. Depending on what version of Excel you have, here's what you need to do:
For Excel 2019 or Excel 365
You can use the MAXIFS function. You would actually put that function in a conditional formatting rule, but more on that in just a second. As a test, put the following code in cell B5:
=MAXIFS($L$1:$L$137,$L$1:$L$137,"<="&$B$4)
The first argument is your "MAX_RANGE", or the range that contains the values you want to find the max of. It is also our "CRITERIA_RANGE", the second argument. The third argument is the criteria itself, which is that the search range must be less than or equal to the value in cell B4. Essentially, we are going through the list and creating a subset of numbers that are less than or equal to our search value, and discarding the rest. I assume you are aware of relative vs. absolute referencing, since you used the "$" anchor in your referenced code. If not, here's a description of the difference.
Now, the result of that formula should be the highest number in the list less than or equal to the search value, but that doesn't highlight it for us in our list. To do this we need conditional formatting. To do this, highlight your data range (L1:L137) and go to the conditional formatting drop down on the home tab of the menu ribbon. Choose "New Rule". On the dialog that pops up, choose, "Use a formula to determine which cells to format". In the formula input box, enter:
=L1=MAXIFS($L$1:$L$137,$L$1:$L$137,"<="&$B$4)
This will compare whether the value in the cell being evaluated (L1, for instance) is equal to the result of that formula we talked about above. Since L1 is only relatively referenced, this formula will work for every cell in the data range.
Now, before you hit "OK" on the dialog, select the Format button. This will allow you to adjust your highlighting and formatting as you desire. Click "OK" on the formatting dialog, then "OK" on the Conditional Formatting Rule dialog. This should now highlight any data cell that is equal specifically to the result of our formula, and not everything that's less than our value.
For Earlier Versions of Excel
The concept is the same in earlier versions of Excel, but unfortunately, the MAXIFS function is not present in these versions. Instead, we must use an array formula. Array formulas are a whole other can of worms, but ExcelJet is an excellent resource. In fact, they talk about this very issue, here.
Unfortunately, we can't put the array formula in the conditional formatting formula like we did above, so we'll need to put this formula on a cell in the worksheet, then the conditional formula should reference that new cell. So in cell B5, if you put:
=MAX(IF(L1:L137=B4,L1:L137)
And then, instead of pressing Enter, you must press Ctl + Shift + Enter
This keyboard combination will tell Excel that you are trying to enter an array formula. If you don't press these keys, then the formula will error. Once you have entered the array formula, if you put your cursor in cell B5, you will see the formula bar at the top has added curly braces ({ , }) around the formula to look like
{=MAX(IF(L1:L137=B4,L1:L137)}
This leads to the same result as above, but is just achieved slightly differently. Now, following the same process described above for conditional formatting, you will simply set the formula to:
=L1=$B$5
And that should be it! Hope this helps!
I have a cell formula that's working mixing both text and an If statement, example: ="USER_INPUT" & IF(F2="Asia/Singapore","+08:00","+02:00") output: USER_INPUT+8:00
I'm not the one that will use this formula so I'd like to avoid having the user to search for the "USER_INPUT" in the whole formula in order to prevent mistakes.
Is it possible for the user just to type whatever he want in the cell wihout having the whole formula behind?
example of cell input I want:
="USER_INPUT" & formula
Is there any reason why the cell containing this formula cannot be in another location which the user does not need to edit? So I am suggesting that you have a highlighted cell somewhere for user input (say G2 for the sake of argument), and then in another cell you have the following formula:
=G2 & IF(F2="Asia/Singapore","+08:00","+02:00")
Your display cell can then refer to the cell containing the above formula. You could even take things a step further and lock the cells which contain the actual formulas, to make sure your users don't accidentally change them. Follow the link below for information on how to do that.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/214081/xl-how-to-lock-individual-cells-in-a-worksheet
I have a client list database on a excel document. What I need is to display client information by entering a number (each client has a code). For example, if I enter the number "1" it would have to show the info of number one client. I thought that I could do someshing like these:
The codes of the clients start at A1 cell, and the names at B1. On another part of the document (let's say on the cell G4), I enter a number, for example number 7. Then, I want the cell above to the "7" (G5) display the name of the client. To do it I thought to link the cell to the B column (where the names are) and the row that says the cell G4 (in that case G4=7). That would point to the right cell by entering a fixed column and a variable row. The problem is that I have no idea on how I could do these. I tried entering a formula like "=LINK(B(G4))" but this is not a correct formula. How these could be done? So many thanks in advance.
Try to use following formula in G5:
=VLOOKUP(G4,$A:$B,2,0)
If an exact match is not found, the error value #N/A is returned.
You can also modify formula to return "not found" (or another message) instead #N/A:
for excel 2007 or later:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(G4,$A:$B,2,0),"not found")
for excel 2003:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(G4,$A:$B,2,0)), "not found", VLOOKUP(G4,$A:$B,2,0))
You can read more about VLOOKUP here.
How does one cell obtain the formula of another cell as text without using VBA? I can see this question has already been asked many times and the answer is always to write a custom function in VBA.
However, I found a post made in 2006 which claimed to have found the non-VBA solution but the link provided in that post is already broken.
=FormulaText(Reference) will do the trick Documentation
There is nice way of doing this without VBA. It uses XL4 macros (these are macros, but it is not VBA, as asked).
With reference to the figure 1, cells A2:A4 contain usual formulas.
Going to Formulas -> Define Name, I defined two named ranges (see fig. 2), with the information shown in cells A6:B8.
Enter in cell B2 =FormulaAsText. This will retrieve the formula in cell A2 as text.
Explanation:
The named range FormulaAsText uses =GET.CELL(info_type,reference). In this case, ìnfo_type = 6 retrieves the formula, and reference = OFFSET(INDIRECT("RC",FALSE),0,-1) uses the cell with 0 rows and -1 columns offset from the one the formula is used in.
Copy B2 and paste into B3:B4. This will show formulas in A3:A4. Cell A4 shows that the worksheet function CELL only retrieves values, not formulas (as opposed to GET.CELL).
Since FormulaAsText gets the formula from a cell at fixed offset (0,-1) from the current, I defined another range FormulaAsText2, which uses an offset (rows,cols) read from the worksheet itself. Cells D2:D4 contain =FormulaAsText2. Thus, cell D2 shows the contents of cell B3 (=OffSET(D2,1,-2)), which is FormulaAsText. cells D3:D4 show the contents of themselves. This adds some flexibility. YMMV.
PS1: The essence was taken from
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/20611-info-only-get-cell-arguments.html
PS2: Tim Williams mentioned in a comment "the old XLM GET.FORMULA()". This answer is possibly related (not the same, since this one uses GET.CELL()).
PS3: A simple VBA solution is given, e.g., in
http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/excel/formula.htm
EDIT: Complementing this nice answer, the worksheet function FormulaText is available for Excel 2013 and later.
This suggestion may be helpful for those who after retrieving a block of formulas and transporting them to a new spreadsheet want to put them to work again. Excels FORMULATEXT function is great for picking up formulas but it leaves them as unusable text strings. If you want to get them back as fully functioning formulas you have to edit each one individually to remove the string character, but here is a shortcut for larger blocks.
Get to the position where you have the required formulas as text (in other words after using FORMULATEXT - you have done a copy and (value only) paste). The next step involves highlighting all the cells you want to convert and then navigating to the [Text-To-Columns] menu option ({Data} bar on Excel 2016). You can select 'Delimited' but on the next screen just make sure you de-select any marks that do appear in your formulas. Then 'Finish'. Excel should automatically analyse the cells as containing formulas and you should now have them working again.
There is a way to do this. In my example I had a table that showed a date. The date comes from Sheet!G91. In my table I also had a column that showed the sheet name. I added two more columns to my table. The first column had column(Sheet!g91), which returns the number 7, because G is the seventh letter in the alphabet. I then converted the number to a letter (G) using another table in my workbook. In the second column that I added, I made a formula row(Sheet!G91), which returns the number 91. Note: Row and Column may appear as volatile formulas, which recalculate with every calculation of the workbook.
I wanted another column to show the formula contents of the date cell mentioned at the beginning of this post. I included the following string function (you can also use CONCATENATE).
"=" & AJ9 & "!" & AM9 & AN9
The items separated by ampersands get strung together (that is, concatenated). AJ9 in my example contains the sheet name, AM9 contains the column letter, and AN9 contains the row number.
I now have a column that dynamically updates its contents to reflect the sheet name and cell reference. The results in my workbook cell are
=Sheet!G91.
You can't. This is most likely a design choice to eliminate an average Excel user from accidentally getting something they did not want.
What you are reading is correct - writing a UDF is the solution you want.