I have a worksheet that I am trying to make more automated by providing users with updates, however I am having difficulty with getting a formula to work.
I am using a semi-large table (over 32 columns of information, 1,500 rows) but really only want to focus in on 2 columns for this issue. In column C I have the dates that a service order has been requested and in column D I have information that populates when a confirmation of the request is sent (if no request is sent, then it is blank). My hope is to be able to create a message box that alerts when the workbook opens and displays the number of order requests that are within 2 weeks of today that have not yet received a confirmation.
So far, it looks like my best option is to have hidden cells elsewhere that do the heavy lifting with formulas and then to display the values within a messagebox using a Workbook_Open event. I have been able to get a formula to display the number of requests that fit my time window:
=SUMPRODUCT((Table5[Date]>=TODAY())*(Table5[Date]<=TODAY()=14))
And this appears to be capturing the numbers that I need, however I am having difficulty integrating the second component that I need: whether or not a reply was sent. So far, my attempts at including some form of an AND qualifier within the formula has returned an error... I am hoping to be able to quantify within the formula something along the lines (logically) of this:
=IF(Table5[Reply]="" AND Table5[Date]>=TODAY()+14, SUMPRODUCT)
I know that the above won't work, but I am wondering if anyone has any pointers on how to modify this so that it can include both factors?
Many thanks!
Assuming you are looking at dates that are today and up to two weeks in the future, and that the Reply column is blank "" for those dates, then these formula will work for you:
Excel 2007 or higher:
=COUNTIFS(Table5[Date],">="&TODAY(),Table5[Date],"<="&TODAY()+14,Table5[Reply],"")
Backwards compatible:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(Table5[Date]>=TODAY()),--(Table5[Date]<=TODAY()+14),--(Table5[Reply]=""))
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I have been banging my head against the wall for a couple of days and can't quite figure this one out. I'm hoping someone has done this before and keep hitting a dead end. I'm trying to document a process for an end user that's not ridiculously cumbersome.
We have a mail room and use a system that allows us to receive packages and assign it to them. When they pick it up, they sign for it and it's marked as received. We run a report every Friday so we can check what is left in the mail rooms vs what the system says we should have on hand. So I have the report that shows what we have on hand and it holds the following columns:
Entry Name Room Space Receipt Date Shipping Parcel Type Tracking Number
I purchased some handheld scanners that we can scan all the tracking numbers of the packages. Once I get that into the spreadsheet, I want to remove the rows that match. This means either they were skipped when we scanned what we had in back or we gave it to someone and they didn't sign for it. But I can't figure out the best way.
So I pasted the scanned tracking numbers in the Tracking Number column and did remove duplicates, but it just removes one row. I want to delete both rows because that means that the package is in the system and on the shelf as it should be.
I also tried conditional formatting, but it's like it's not looking at the entire string and is highlighting tracking numbers that clearly aren't duplicates. :(
I don't know what else to try or if there's a formula that will remove the entire row when duplicate values are found in one cell. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I made a dummy version (fake names and extremely shortened) of the 2 spreadsheets I'm working with this spread sheets
Background:
I'm automating the data between Contracts and our Accounting Team's template. Note that neither of these spreadsheet's formats can budge so that why I'm stuck. It's a clunky process that I am trying to automate. The main source of data is the "Contracts" tab. Let's say out of the 300 subcontractors projects, in the week of 1/24/2019 my coworker approved 130 of the projects. The logic of what I am trying to accomplish:
In the Contracts tab, if Column R is "Yes"--
In the "Accounting Template" tab (the one with formulas) Column B, pull all the cells of Contracts!A of the vendors we are set to pay.
The same applies to Template! (a nickname for the path) Column M, pull the specific contract ID's of the approved Contract ID's from Contracts!C.
Note I intentionally showed that my fake Puppies program is NOT approved to get their payment, this will help demonstrate how to resolve my issue
My key issue is that the Accounting Template skips every 3 rows for the Project, and the Contracts row has Project day every single row. So, for Template!A5, I am pulling data from Contracts!A2, and Template!A8 I am pulling data from Contracts!A3, etc.
I was able to (sort of) make this work with an offset, row and index match:
=OFFSET(INDEX(Contracts!$C$2:$C$167,MATCH(ROWS(Contracts!$A$2:A17),Contracts!$AB$2:$AB$167,0)),-10,0)
See that negative -10? For each new 3rd row I am starting at template, I'm manually changing it to -10, -12, -14, etc etc. Not exactly sophisticated.
Looking at how offset and row work, it looks as though they heavily rely on the coordinates of cells in the Contracts workbook. However, I ideally am looking to do this:
=IF(Contracts!R2="Yes",OFFSET(INDEX(Contracts!$C$2:$C$167,MATCH(ROWS(Contracts!$A$2:A5),Contracts!$AB$2:$AB$167,0)),-2,0))
However, once I throw a conditional (IF) in the mix, that reorientating the rows of my offset match. Are there better formulas for what I am trying to accomplish? A VBA script that could accomplish this IF, INDEX, MATCH, OFFSET, ROW dream of mine? I'm not married to either of these formulas.
I've perused a few VBAs but nothing seems to have a conditional like IF as a component.
EDIT:
Per a request, adding screenshots. There's also a Google Sheet link:
Contracts tab, purposely hiding irrelevant columns:
Accounting Template Tab:
I'd do it with VBA, but this formula example might help you start. If your issue is basically turning horizontal data into vertical data and you have a fixed interval of 3 rows. You will need to adapt the formulae for your actual set up.
The formulas used are:
F1 and down =IF(MOD(ROW()-1,3)=0,INDEX($A$1:$A$3,(ROW()+2)/3),"")
G1 and down =INDEX($B$1:$D$3,CEILING(ROW(),3)/3,1+MOD(ROWS($G$1:G1)-1,3))
I'm sure there are better ways ...
I'm trying to read an Excel sheet from an XLS or XLSX file in memory using Delphi 7. When possible I use automation to read the cells one by one, but when Excel is not installed, I revert to using the ADO/ODBC Jet driver.
I connect using either
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=file.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;Persist Security Info=False;IMEX=1;HDR=No";
Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; Data Source=file.xlsx;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;Persist Security Info=False;IMEX=1;HDR=No";
My problem then is that when I use the following query:
SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]
the returned results do not contain the empty rows or empty columns, so if the sheet contains such rows or columns, the following cells are shifted and do not end up in their correct position. I need the sheet to be loaded "as is", ie know exactly from what cell position each value comes from.
I tried to read the cells one by one by issuing one query of the form
SELECT F1 FROM `SheetName$A1:A1`
but now the driver returns an error saying "There is data outside the selected region". btw I had to use backticks to enclose the name because using brackets like this [SheetName$A1:A1] gave out a syntax error message.
Is there a way to tell the driver to select the sheet as-is, whithout skipping blanks? Or maybe a way to know from which cell position each value is returned?
For internal policy reasons (I know they are bad but I do not decide these), it is not possible to use a third party library, I really need this to work from standard Delphi 7 components.
I assume that if your data is say in the range B2:D10 for example, you want to include the column A as an empty column? Maybe? Is that correct? If that's the case, then your data set, when you read the sheet (SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]) would also return 1 million rows by 16K columns!
Can you not execute a query like: SELECT * FROM [SheetName$B2:D10] and use the ADO GetRows function to get an array - which will give you the size of the data. Then you can index into the array to get what data you want?
OK, the correct answer is
Use a third party library no matter what your boss says. Do not even
try ODBC/ADO to load arbitrary Excel files, you will hit a wall sooner or later.
It may work for excel files that contain a single data table, but not when you want to cherry pick data in a sheet primarily made for human consumption (ie where a single column contains some cells with introductory text, some with numerical data, some with comments, etc...)
Using IMEX=1 ignores empty lines and empty columns
Using IMEX=0 sometimes no longer ignores empty lines, but now some of the first non empty cells are considered field names instead of data, although HDR=No. Would not work anyway since valules in a column are of mixed types.
Explicitly looping across cells and making a SELECT * FROM [SheetName$A1:A1] works until you reach an empty cell, then you get access violations (see below)
Access violation at address 1B30B3E3 in module 'msexcl40.dll'. Read of address 00000000
I'm too old to want to try and guess the appropriate value to use so it works until someone comes with yet another mix of data in a column. Sorry for having wasted everybody's time.
I'm trying for the life of me to figure out Excel VBA but I've been getting nowhere.
Here's what I'm needing to do:
Have a list of thousands of entries - each one corresponding to a ticket for a customer. Columns include information like client name (Column B), # of minutes worked on per ticket (Column I), etc.
We're trying to make a macro that totals the # minutes of worked on for all tickets of a specific client in a new row directly below, then hide all of those rows.
The end result should be only seeing a row containing "Total -client name here-" in the name column, then the total number of minutes in the # of minutes column.
The previous macros I've done aren't dynamic and were done via recordings within excel (which obviously don't work the way I wanted to, apparently).
Programming isn't my forte, and all this has been doing is making me want to pull my hair out. Any help?
It sounds like you'd be better off using a database like Access. You can enter all your information into a table and then write a query to find what you need. If you don't want to use Access, we'll need a better idea of what you're trying to do.
One of the reports that wastes a bunch of my time at work is the Roster. It's a multi-site, multi-contract listing of every employee currently assigned to a specific client. Currently, it has a little over 6,000 lines by 20-something columns, indexed against 3 different datasets. Not the largest mess in the world, but still a pain. And it's almost all in excel, because I somehow don't have a business case for Access.
But one part of this monster stands apart. One tab per site Site Totals, listing off every time any agent has gone through training. A second tab (again, one per site) Site Data displaying only the most recent training class, and the credentials they had during that class.
That second tab is driven by variations of this array formula - Last_Row is a named range on another tab, and column A is a pivot of the UID column on Site Totals. I've broken it apart for readability:
=IF(INDEX('Site Totals'!B:B,LARGE(($A2=INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row))*
(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!B1:B"&Last_Row)<>"")*
ROW(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row)),1))="Trainer",
"",
INDEX('Site Totals'!B:B,LARGE(($A2=INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row))*
(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!B1:B"&Last_Row)<>"")*
ROW(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row)),1)))
I know what this formula does, but I don't know how to improve it. This formula needs to be changed, because it currently is on the order of 500 Million calculations (I'm not allowed to delete historical data), and it takes me 3 hours to calculate the workbook ... if it doesn't crash Excel first.
I'm open to VBA and / or custom functions, but would prefer to have native Excel functions. I'm not able to install anything, so any solution must be native Excel, and Must be compatible to Excel 2007.
If your source is a pivot table, try is the GETPIVOTDATA function. You might be able to accomplish what you want without INDIRECT and INDEX.
What i have understood is that every person has/has not attended a training and you want to retrive the name of that training, in case he has not, you want a blank space in the cell. If this description is correct you can try this formua, press ctrl+shift+enter to execute.
=IFERROR(INDEX('Site Totals'!B$1:B$12,MATCH(A2&"Trainer",'Site Totals'!A$1:A$12&'Site Totals'!B$1:B$12)),"")
Here A2 contians the name of the person. I can be more precise with this formula if you can provide some sample data butI would recommend to not to use entire B & Columns in Site Total workssheete as this will definately slow down computing process, instead you can use B1:B8000 or smaller range, to speed up process. Hope that helps.