I am trying to write a custom validation formula to require the following conditions for Cell O22 on a spreadsheet:
Value must be a number
Value cannot be zero
Value must be greater than or equal to 0.001
Value must be greater than the cell to the right
In the example, O22 is the gross weight for an object and P22 is the net weight, so both will be numbers.
So I plug in the following formula to a custom data validation box:
=AND(ISNUMBER(O22), O22<>0, O22>0.001, O22>P22)
However, when I go to enter in an invalid value such as the letter "A", no error message appears. I can put the exact same formula into another cell and it will evaluate as false, because "A" is not a number.
After building the formula out one condition at a time, everything works correctly until I add the O22>P22 test. This is when it starts accepting any value without error. Can anyone suggest a workaround for this?
You need to uncheck the Ignore Blank check box in the Data Validation dialog box. If Ignore Blank is checked, no data will be validated as long as a cell in your validation formula (in this case P22) is blank.
Once Ignore Blank is unchecked, any formula that returns FALSE will be considered Invalid Data.
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I have a cell Formatted as a date (M/dd/yyyy HH:mm). The function in this cell is:
=IF($CX$30,MAIN_LEL_BUMP,"")
This is saying that if a check box is clicked (CX30), find the value of MAIN_LEL_BUMP, otherwise leave the cell blank. The issue is sometimes the users do not enter the value of MAIN_LEL_BUMP and consequently the cell gets autofilled with 1/0/1900 0:00. This will pass my date validation checker that I have, but needs to be the accurate date. if MAIN_LEL_BUMP is not filled out, then it absolutely needs to leave the cell blank so that the data validation will pick it up as not being entered. I have looked around on the web for this, and changing the "" to the actual cell name did not work either. HELP
Seems like all you need is one extra condition to check the value of that cell. The following formula will only use the value of MAIN_LEL_BUMP if your original criteria AND MAIN_LEL_BUMP is not empty. If either condition fails you will get your empty cell.
=If(AND($CX$30,MAIN_LEL_BUMP<>""),MAIN_LEL_BUMP,"")
Creating a spreadsheet that has a bunch of test cases and at the end says pass or fail.
all values right now are either "Pass" or "fail". I need to be able to have a conditional where I can type in like a number. if it is above 5 i need it to return a pass. if it is below 5 i need it to return a false. any solutions guys?
The following might be the way to go:
where you enter a value in B1, which is then used to condition on. It's usually easier and more transparent to have a column that contains the conditioned value that is separate from the original data.
Another option might be conditional formatting. In this case, you condition on the value in a cell. Here I've formatted the cells to display a green/yellow/red dot (traffic sign) depending on the value in the cell.:
with the output resembling
Another option is to change the formatting of the cell to a specific "Custom" formatting:
Read more about how to Create a custom number format on Microsoft's help page.
A final option (that is a bit more intricate) requires you to set multiple, mutually exclusive, conditional formatting of the cells as well as separate "Custom" cell formatting:
Note that the cell entry A4 has a value of 16, while the display is actually "Pass" (since it's greater than 8 (cell B1). The steps for obtaining this include:
Create a conditional formatting using the "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" option.
Specify the "Format values where this formula is true" as depicted above (removing the dollar signs inserted around A4 by default), while setting the format using "Custom":
Do the same for the other (mutually exclusive) condition by creating a new rule for the same cell ("Format values where this formula is true:" =A4<=$B$1 and setting the "Custom" format to "Fail").
Once both conditional formatting rules are set, change the "Applied to" field to fit your range:
=IF(A2>5,"Pass","Fail") Replacing A2 with the appropriate cell reference.
I'm having a formula in some cells which is based on values in other cells(say A1,B1) which in turn are getting populated from database.My formula is coming correct but it is always considering null value in A1,B1...ie,on opening my excel, the value in cells having formula is always zero..unless I change it in the generated excel.
I want it to consider cell values which are getting dynamically populated and then show the result.Please help!!!!!
In case your sheet has some formula for say A3=sum(A1:A2) is calculated and it is working fine with A1=5, A2 =4. Now if change the value of A2 with 2 like
sh.getRow(0).getCell(0).setCellValue(2); // set A1=2
and perform write operation, check the value of A3 it is still showing 9. It seems wrong but actully not. The point is that Excel caches previously calculated results and you need to trigger recalculation to updated them.
wb.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator().evaluateAll();
or with
wb.setForceFormulaRecalculation(true);
and then perform Write operation. This will give you the correct result. For Detail check here
I'm currently working on the following excel workbook that is to be used for recording test cases:
If the user enters fel in the F column, it will color it red. Fel means fault" (in swedish) so I want to force the tester to register this error in the bug tracking system whenever one of the test-cases fails. The column I should contain which ID to this error in the bug tracking system. So what I'm trying to achieve is:
If the tester have entered fel in the column F, it should force or make the tester aware of that no ID have been entered in the I column. One idea is to color the corresponding I cell red if the F cell contains fel and the I cell is empty, and when the tester enters something in the I cell the red color goes away.
This is what I've done so far:
=IF(AND(F5="Fel",I5=ISEMPTY(TRUE)),)
which I use with conditional formatting but I'm unable to get it to work. Also the cell values are hard coded, how could i make the condition be valid for a certain column with a corresponding row's cell.
Also, I'm open to suggestions if there is a better way then to just color that cell red to make the user aware of that he needs to enter something in the I column
I am taking the example of Cells F1:F10. Please amend as applicable.
There is no formula as ISEMPTY. Use ISBLANK
Use this formula
=AND($F1="Fel",ISBLANK($I1))
To ensure that it works for all cells in that range (F1:F10) use $ for the column only thereby making it constant and the row a variable
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I have an excel spreadsheet that is giving me an error for a specific column. It's a truncate error so i am needing to check each cell in column O for length >= 8000. The datatype is varchar(max) so by checking this i can see which row is being rejected. This error occurred when trying to import the data into SQL server. I need to find which row is causing the error and fix it so i can import the data. The error actually states its either a truncate exception or a invalid character so this method will at least solve one of the questions. The top row is the column names if that matters. I believe i need something like this LEN(Column O) >= 8000 but im not very excel savy so hopefully i can find help here :)
Create a new column in the raw data. Call it "Greater than 8000"
Put a formula in the next cell down (row 2 I assume). Then put this formula in there:
=IF(LEN(O2)>8000,"YES","NO")
copy and paste the formula to the last cell row.
Then apply a filter to the data (click on a1, then click Home-->Sort & Filter --> Filter). Then go to the new column "Greater than 8000" and filter for "YES".
LEN(InsertYourCellHere) will indeed give you the lenght of text inside the cell. What you can do is create a new rule in Conditional Formatting menu => Use a formula to determine which cells to format. There you will enter the LEN() formula.