I have a VLOOKUP (actually an INDEX-MATCH) in an Excel cell.
This resolves ok but the resulting value has a leading zero, which Excel removes.
The standard solution (according to Google) is to format the cell as text, but if I do that the cell displays the formula instead of resolving it.
What format should I use?
This is an example of the formula (if it makes a difference):
=MID(INDEX('$save'!M23:M1021,MATCH(B70,'$save'!X23:X1021,0),1),2,99)
Thanks
For anyone else who is interested, this is how I solved it.
I needed to add the TEXT function into the formula:
=MID(TEXT(INDEX('$save'!M23:M1021,MATCH(B70,'$save'!X23:X1021,0),1),""),2,99)
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Im exploring how feasible it is to extract data from cells that consist of text. ultimately. I will apply conditional formatting rules based on the date relative to today, but right now I just need to be able to extract them.
So far I have achieved the following:
To achieve this I've used the formula found online =IFERROR(DATEVALUE(LEFT(RIGHT(B2,(LEN(B2)-(FIND("-",B2)-3))),11)),""). The issue is that if a cell contains only a date, the Length is subtracted from itself and nothing is returned. I have tried modifying the above equation but keep running into errors.
Hoping someone may be able to help me out modify this formula. Alternatively, if anyone knows how dates can be extracted used just excel formulas that would be great.
The issue is that without the other text it is a true date and a true date is a double and has no - in it.
The simple fix is to wrap change the"" return from the IFERROR to B2:
=IFERROR(DATEVALUE(LEFT(RIGHT(B2,(LEN(B2)-(FIND("-",B2)-3))),11)),B2)
If that is not sufficient you can do an IF to test if date:
=IF(ISNUMBER(B2),B2,IFERROR(DATEVALUE(LEFT(RIGHT(B2,(LEN(B2)-(FIND("-",B2)-3))),11)),""))
This is a solution I came up with with appears to work for almost Any Date format provided the date is at the top of the cell. Note this was done for dates in cell H6 of my workbook.
The formula below can be entered below to extract the date from this cell amongst text.
=TEXT(IFERROR(LEFT(H6,SEARCH(CHAR(10),H6,1)-1),H6),"dd-mmm-yyyy")
This formula checks if the date is within 3 years and returns a true of false value. This can be used to conditionally Format Cells if the date once extracted is out of date.
=IF(ISBLANK(H6),FALSE,IFERROR(IF(DATEVALUE(TEXT(IFERROR(LEFT(H6,SEARCH(CHAR(10), H6, 1)-1),H6),"dd-mmm-yyyy"))<=TODAY()-(365*3),TRUE,FALSE),TRUE))
Works really well for me!
I'm trying to take the sum of numbers that are formatted as strings in Excel without firstly reformatting them as numbers manually, on row I.
How is this done?
My best attempt so far is
=VALUE(SUM(I:I))
But does not work :(
Any ideas?
One option:
=SUMPRODUCT(IFERROR(--I1:I1000,0))
Depending on your version of Excel, may need confirmed with Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
Adjust the range as necessary.
Note: =SUM(IFERROR(--I1:I1000,0)) is a valid (and shorter!) option.
Maybe this can help. Typed some words and numbers mixed, and formatted all those cells as text.
My formula in C13 is an array formula:
=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(VALUE(A1:A10))=TRUE;VALUE(A1:A10)))
Because it's an array formula, it must be entered with CTRL+ENTER+SHIFT
IMPORTANT: Sometimes when referencing cells formatted as text in a formula, the active cell gets formatted to text. So make sure the cell contanining the formula (in my image, C13) is formatted as Standard.
My NodeJS program populates an excel formula in a cell which in turn calculates the sum of all the numbers in a column. The numbers are stored as text in the cells.
The formula used is : =SUM(0+(I5:I19999)).
All the numbers are present in column 'I' but not necessarily till 19999th row (few may be blank).
However, the result of this formula is always #VALUE!.
I can't seem to find the issue in this.
Any help in this issue is really appreciated.
Thanks!
Formula you are using to add numbers stored as text i.e. =SUM(0+(I5:I19999)) is an array formula and needs to be committed by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
If you want non-array formula you can use
=SUMPRODUCT((I5:I19999)*1)
the value in the cell must be stored as a number because sum works on numbers only if you give text then it will display #VALUE.
you can store value as numbers using numformat('0.00').you can get more info from this page https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Number-format-codes-5026bbd6-04bc-48cd-bf33-80f18b4eae68.if you are reading then you have to convert it.
Could you please let me know which package(exceljs,Node-xlsx) are you using so that i can send you the code require?
I tried to convert a date 1130505 to excel date format 5/5/2013, I first converted it by "=19000000+1130505"(20130505) in B2, then use =TEXT(B2,"yyyy-mm-dd") but it gave me an error. Anyone knows why?
It is looking for a number in the excel date notation. i.e. (see below) if you put in the date 8/7/2013 the excel "value" of that is 41493 for which the =TEXT(B6,"yyyy-mm-dd") formula would work.
Since you've already got the date formatted you don't want excel to do any thinking so you want to use =TEXT(B2,"####-##-##")
Excel has values for dates that don't equate to the numbers concatenated, so unfortunately the "TEXT" formula isn't going to work.
My recommendation would be to use a combination of "CONCATENATE", "RIGHT", and "LEFT" functions. In this case, you'd write:
=CONCATENATE(LEFT(RIGHT(A2,4),2),"/",RIGHT(A2,2),"/",RIGHT(LEFT(A2,3),2))
It looks a bit complicated, but it's the only way I can think of to handle the ordering in your values and that leading "1".
With data in A1, in B1 enter:
=DATE(2000+MID(A1,2,2),MID(A1,4,2),RIGHT(A1,2))
Then you can format B1 (if you need a true date):
or you can use:
=TEXT(DATE(2000+MID(A1,2,2),MID(A1,4,2),RIGHT(A1,2)),"m/d/yyyy")
if you need a text result.
I have to restrict some invalid data in a Excel Column.
Below is Validation Criteria:
Should be a numeric Number
Size/Length should be equals to 9
Ex : valid:602005514, invalid:were,43456 etc.
I have created a Custom Data Validation using below function.
=AND(LEN(INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()),"$","")))=9,
ISNUMBER(INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()),"$",""))))
//here i have to get cell name dynamically. so, i have used ADDRESS function
But its not working as expected. It is not allowing any value in cell.
I guess it might be because of LEN function circular reference.
I have tried many ways, but not able to solve it. Please help me to solve this.
You don't need to resort to INDIRECT etc, in you formula just refer to top left cell in the range you are applying the validation.to. Excel will adjust for the othger cells in the range. When entering cell references don't use absolute references, ie no $'s
Eg select a range starting at cell A1, and set data validation formula to
=AND(ISNUMBER(A1),LEN(A1)=9)
Check this simple validation .. checking Cell D13 ..
=IF(LEN(D13)=9,IF(ISNUMBER(D13),"yes","no"),"no")
Another way:
=AND(ISNUMBER(A1),A1>99999999)
Make sure there are no leading or trailing spaces in the cell:
=IF(TRIM(A3)=A3,TRUE,FALSE)