I'm working on this new project and I'm trying to set up a dynamic spreadsheet where once one process is complete another will start. To illustrate,
I have a series of payments paying off a mortgage, once the mortgage process is complete (principal remaining is zero) I need the series of payments to start paying off another loan. I'm having a problem setting up the spreadsheet to start one processes when another is done. I think some sort of if function is probably going to come in handy, if anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
What you're trying to do goes a little against the grain of Excel, but you can mimic the functionality you want pretty easily. It would take a second header row.
You don't have a ton of specifics in the prompt, so I'm going to use some general examples.
So, assuming you have your first process information in Column B, and your third process information in Column C, you would place a formula in B2 that determines whether the B process has completed, like:
=IF(SUM(B3:B400)>=5000,"Done","Not Done")
Then, your formulas from C3 to C(whatever) would involve:
=IF($B$2="Done",[Your_Stuff_Here],"")
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I feel like I'm missing something here but can't find out what. I'm creating a planning template. I want a separate table in which the user can put the deadline name with the deadline week.
In my planning overview I want these deadlines to appear. To do this, I tried an approach with IF()-statements. Although this works well, it doesn't deal with a new deadline that is added later on in the project.
I could brute force this and create 30 IF()-statements so there's space for 30 deadlines (which is more than enough) but I have a feeling this can be done in a much smoother way. Do you have any suggestions for this?
You can use INDEX/MATCH:
=IFERROR(INDEX($A:$A;MATCH(E2;$B:$B;0));"")
looks like you have not used the function vlookup before.
Vlookup is one of essential functions in excel and learning & starting use of it will definitely make you a better excel user and save you lots of time later on.
You can solve your puzzle via vlookup as described below:
Swap the columns "name" & "week". Week will be in col A, Concept in col B.
Write this formula to cell E1 and then you can paste it to F1 to N1:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(E$2;$A$2:$B$50;2;FALSE);"")
I am looking for some advice, I have a small micro green business and I have an excel sheet that breaks down the seeds, seed batch amount required, yield etc and so on.
I want to create a tab where I can input a customer order, I then want excel to schedule that order based on the information contained above in a calendar format on a tab.
I also want excel to calculate the amount of seed required number of trays and assign the tray a number. All trays are number in this format "A123, A124, A125" etc.
I'm also keen for excel to then assign the seed batch to the order and a tray number to the order.
Firstly is this possible, I've used excel a fair bit from my previous work experience but this is quite new for me and I am keen to learn so if someone could point me in the right direction on a possible method and what I should be looking at!
It sounds like you are looking for a data(base) structure for this challenge. Yes, that could be done in Excel, some VBA skills will probably come in handy if you want to achieve it automatically. As a first step, you could e.g. set up something like this:
Mockup of a data structure
So you would at least need one table where you enter your orders, one list of trays and one table where you link your incoming orders to the trays. You might need more columns than I added in my mockup.
Hope that gets you started
This is my first time posting on any website, so please be gentle lol!
I am trying to figure out what forumula i need to help with the attached tabs;
Main Sheet
Data Dump
Goal: to identify how many blocks are due for each block length, at each selected time for each service type. The current UI we have is really poor. this is more user friendly.
My solution?
in each cell there will be a formula to search each time slot for each service type and return the accepted amount for standard/large vehicles from the data dump CSV.
I'm self taught on excel and know some basic macros and formulas however i have admitted defeat here.
I hope this makes sense. I only need the formula to pick up one service type i can amend to suit where necessary.
Thanks in advance for those who take the time to assist.
Edit - Outcome
datadump2
James
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.
I am trying to make a sheet to add to templates that I give to my students for homework assignments; some of them are cheating by sending each other the files and I would like to catch them.
I have made a formula cell that populates with the current OS and directory of the file. What I would like to do is have this become text after evaluation so that if another student opens the file it will not change (but the following cell will, and so on..) Here is the formula:
(Cell A1):
=INFO("osversion")&INFO("directory")
(Cell A2 and beyond):
=IF(A1=(INFO("osversion")&INFO("directory")),"",IF(LEN(A1)<2," ",INFO("osversion")&INFO("directory")))
Do you know if there is any way to have a formula cell be replaced by its value after execution without using VBA? (If I use VBA it asks if you want to enable macros on startup which kind of gives the game away...)
Thank you in advance for your help!
There is a workaround: Use Track Changes. If you are using Excel 2010, for example:
Go to the Review tab and in the Changes group click Share Workbook.
Click the checkbox for Allow changes by more than one user at the same time.
In the Review tab, select Track Changes|Highlight Changes.
You may wish to select All for the When option and Everyone for the Who option.
You can then choose to highlight changes on screen and/or list changes in a new sheet.
If you do that before you make your final changes to the file, you can confirm that nobody has Accepted Changes between the last time you saw the file and the time it is returned to you by checking that your last change is shown correctly.
That will then let you see all the people who have edited the file since you last edited it, and what changes they have made.
(EDIT)
As #Siddharth Rout pointed out in another answer, one can use technological means to make cheating on assignments more difficult but a sufficiently resourceful student can always find a way to circumvent such measures.
This predicament can be resolved by distinguishing two cases:
(a) learning opportunities where students can choose to learn (do the assignment and get feedback on their approach - not a mark) or not choose to learn, and
(b) evaluation processes where one can measure how much they have learned (e.g. by getting the students together under one roof).
In case (a) students are not being evaluated and so have no motivation to "cheat". In case (b), they are being evaluated but have no opportunity to cheat.
Do you know if there is any way to have a formula cell be replaced by its value after execution without using VBA?
The answer to your question is "No, it cannot be done"
Even if you considered VBA as an option, it's futile as this is a classic example of XY Problem.
No matter what you do, you cannot stop your students from cheating. Consider these few scenarios.
Scenario 1
Student A has 1.xlsx. Student B has 2.xlsx. After student A finishes his/her assignment, he/she create a copy of 1.xlsx. Let's call it Copy.xlsx. Now Student A gives Copy.xlsx to Student B. Student B opens Copy.xlsx and copies the answers into 2.xlsx. Once finished, Student B deletes Copy.xlsx and gives you 2.xlsx. So now tell me how will you know Student B cheated?
Scenario 2
Student B calls Student A on mobile. They both have their copies opened. Student A gives all the answers on the phone. How will you know Student B cheated?
Scenario 3
Student A and Student B open files in two laptops next to each other and finish the assignment. How would you know who cheated whose assignment?
Alternative?
Get all the students under one roof and then get them fill it up in front of you. There is no other way you can even guess whether someone cheated unless someone is fool enough to mention other students name in his/her template or copied the answers verbatim.
You could always put some text in a cell location that only you know about and make the text white. You could code your text for each student and lock only the contents of that one cell with a password.
That's what I would do...
You can give each of them a different problem (maybe the same problem with different data). You will detect cheating of any kind by just looking at the results.
Programming or IT is not always the solution, even to programming or IT problems.