I have two sheets with same data and I want to compare entire row in two sheets.
On Sheet1 (old data)
Col A | Col B
1001 | My Val 1
2001 | My Val 2
3001 | My Val 3
On Sheet2 (new data)
Col A | Col B | C
3001 | My Val 3 |True
1001 | My New Val 1 |False
2001 | My New Val 2 |False
Instead of trying to think in terms of comparing rows, make the problem simpler. It is easier to compare just a single cell - so first combine your "whole row" into a single cell. This is easy by concatenating all the cells using the & symbol.
Insert a new (hidden) column C on both sheets, that combines the other columns with a formula like:
= A1 & B1
Now you have a summary that is easy to compare, because you are just looking at single cells and a single column.
On your new sheet, insert a new column D that uses VLOOKUP to see if the row exists on sheet 1:
=VLOOKUP( C1, Sheet1!C:C, 1, false)
Now this will give you an error if the row is not found, and will return the row if it is found.
Your new column E (which corresponds to your old column C) can be calculated with:
=NOT( ISERR( D1 ))
Hide unused columns as required.
I started down the path of the accepted answer, concatenating columns. But with 107 columns, this proved to be tedious.
My solution for this was to paste both sheets into one, keeping the columns aligned.
Then, on the Data tab, click Remove Duplicates. If your remaining row count equals your starting row count, they're identical. If they're not, you'll need to filter columns to find the ones that are not the same.
Related
A |B |C |....|K |L |M |
Tom |0 | |....|Tom |Jim |Dave |
Jim |1000 | |....|15000|14000|12000|
Dave |3000 | |....| | | |
Using Google Sheets for this one. I would like the values in columns K, L, and M to read from column B, detect if the corresponding cell from A reads one of 'Tom', 'Jim', or 'Dave' for example, and then subtract the amount from the correct column to reduce a running total. I've had some trouble figuring it out and tried to use conditional formatting to solve it but can't seem to quite get there. Is there a formula I can use that will read column B and subtract the amount shown from the correct column based on the name in column A?
So to pseudo-code it:
read(column B cell);
if(column B cell - 1 column = "Tom")
{
column K - (value of column B cell)
}
else if(column B cell - 1 column = "Jim")
{
column L - (value of column B cell)
}
etc.
Is there a simple method I can use to generate this result? Also thought about changing the formatting of a cell based on the name in the cell next to it and subtracting the value of any cell with that colour but this becomes unwieldy if names are added. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
would there be a way to constrain the formula to a single cell so I can have the total in a single location rather than down the columns? My plan is to have the total boxes scroll with the sheet and always be visible.
Let's assume that Columns A and B continue on down the sheet, with further name + amount entries. You want to have a single row of balances for each of the people.
The balance is then some initial value less the sum of amounts for that person. Say the amounts you've shown in row 2 are the initial values; here's how you could have row 3 reflect the remaining balance for each person (This is for "Tom", copy for the others):
=K2-sumif($A$2:$B,"="&K$1,$B$2:$B)
Alternative solution
This doesn't do exactly what you want, but it is more appropriate for a running total scenario, so others may find it useful to adapt to ledgers, etc.
The IF() function can be used to decide whether or not a value in Column B applies to one of the "total" columns, K to M.
Use this formula in K3, copy to the rest of the range:
=K2-if($A2=K$1,$B2,0)
This example is in Google Sheets, but the same formula works in Excel and other "compatible" offerings.
What you do is put the formula in each column.
Column K subtracts value of column B if column A = "Tom"
Column L subtracts value of column B if column A = "Jim"
etc
I'm using excel and have two columns (A & B) with values
I want to search for each value in Column A and return the position in Column B.
I'm using this formula:
IFERROR(MATCH("Values in Column A";"Array = Column B";0);0)
The results are:
Column A | Column B | Column C
1 | 4 | 2
2 | 1 | 3
3 | 2 | 4
4 | 1 | 1
1 | 2 | 2
| 3 |
It works fine if it doesn't encounter repeated values. However, I want it to encounter repeated values, so the formula should ignore the ones it was encountered before and go through the others. So the correct result should look like this:
Column C
2
3
5
1
4
Can you help me on this? Is there a VBA routine for this?
From the article Getting the 2nd matching value from a list using VLOOKUP formula, you can create a helper column to affix the instance number of each value, to create unique id's.
For example, in Column C, add the following function:
=A1&"-"&COUNTIF($A$1:A1,A1)
Note: The relative reference on the count range will cause the applicable range to grow as it is dragged down. The count of the items matching that cell in a range containing only that cell should always be one. As it gets dragged down to include other cells, it will increment accordingly.
Then add the same thing in Column D to get the instances of cells in Column B:
=B1&"-"&COUNTIF($B$1:B1,B1)
Finally, do the math you want to do in Column E like this:
=IFERROR(MATCH(C1,D:D,0),0)
So I have column A (cat) and column B (Amt) on lots of separate works sheets.
Cat | Amt
1 | 3.4
4 | 7.4
2 | 8.4
4 | 9.4
What I need is to have a grand total for each category type across all the worksheets.
So a total for category 4, a total for category 2 etc.
This is more suitable for VBA solution, however if you know how many unique "Cat" you have, then it can be done without VBA.
For each sheet on C column add SUMIF formula, this will give sum for each group.
C2=SUMIF($A:$A,A2,$B:$B) - copy it down for each row.
On Sheet11 Column A is your unique "Cat" list. Columns B1 to K1, name them as Sheet1, Sheet2, ...Sheet10.
B2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP($A2,INDIRECT(B$1&"!$A:$C"),3,FALSE),0) - copy it for each row, column.
Column L will be GrandTotal.
G2=SUM(B2:K2) - copy it for each row.
I'm trying to make a macro that will go through a spreadsheet, and based on the first and last name being the same for 2 rows, add the contents of an ethnicity column to the first row.
eg.
FirstN|LastN |Ethnicity |ID |
Sally |Smith |Caucasian |55555 |
Sally |Smith |Native American | |
Sally |Smith |Black/African American | |
(after the macro runs)
Sally |Smith |Caucasian/Native American/Black/African American|55555 |
Any suggestions on how to do this? I read several different methods for VBA but have gotten confused as to what way would work to create this macro.
EDIT
There may be more than 2 rows that need to be combined, and the lower row(s) need to be deleted or removed some how.
If you can use a formula, then you can do those:
Couple of assumptions I'm making:
Sally is in cell A2 (there are headers in row 1).
No person has more than 2 ethnicities.
Now, for the steps:
Put a filter and sort by name and surname. This provides for any person having their names separated. (i.e. if there is a 'Sally Smith' at the top, there are no more 'Sally Smith' somewhere down in the sheet after different people).
In column D, put the formula =if(and(A2=A3,B2=B3),C2&"/"&C3,"")
Extend the filter to column D and filter out all the blanks.
That is does is it sees whether the names cells A2 and A3 are equal (names are the same), and whether the cells B2 and B3 are equal (surnames are the same).
If both are true, it's the same person, so we concatenate (using & is another way to concatenate besides using concatenate()) the two ethnicities.
Otherwise, if either the name, or username, or both are different, leave as blank.
To delete the redundant rows altogether, copy/paste values on column D, filter on the blank cells in column D and delete. Sort afterwards.
EDIT: As per edit of question:
The new steps:
Put a filter and sort by name and surname. (already explained above)
In column E, put the formula =IF(AND(A1=A2,B1=B2),E1&"/"&C2,C2) (I changed the formula to adapt to the new method)
In column F, put the formula =if(and(A1=A2,B1=B2),F1+1,1)
In column G, put the formula =if(F3<F2,1,0)
In column H, put the formula =if(and(D2="",A1=A2,B1=B2),H1,D2) (this takes the ID wherever it goes).
Put the formulae as from row 2. What step 3 does is putting an incremental number for the people with same name.
What step 4 does is checking for when the column F goes back to 1. This will identify your 'final rows to be kept'.
Here's my output from those formulae:
The green rows are what you keep (notice that there is 1 in column G that allows you to quickly spot them), and the columns A, B, C, E and H are the columns you keep in the final sheet. Don't forget to copy/paste values once you are done with the formulae and before deleting rows!
If first Sally is in A1 then =IF(AND(A1=A2,B1=B2),C1&"/"&C2,"")copied down as appropriate might suit. Assumes where not the same a blank ("") is preferred to repetition of the C value.
So i have Two Sheets.
First sheet contains two columns
BRAND | LEFTOVER
The second sheet consists of two columns also.
BRAND | LEFTOVER (%)
So in case if the BRAND row value in the first Sheet will match the BRAND row value in the second i want to display the matching LEFTOVER (%) row value in the first sheet rows in the column LEFTOVER.
Kind of lost here.
Appreciate any ideas. Thanks.
In Sheet2:
. A | B
--------------------
1 BRAND | LEFTOVER %
2 X | Y
3 |
In Sheet1:
. A | B
--------------------
1 BRAND | LEFTOVER
2 X | =VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A:B,2)
3 |
The VLookup function searches for its first parameter (in this case the value of Sheet1!A2) in the first column of the range denoted by the second parameter (in this case the leftmost column of the range containing columns A and B on Sheet2)
It then returns the value from that same row of the range that is to the right in the columns denoted by the third parameter (1 is the leftmost column where the matched value was). So in this case we use the number 2 because 1 means column A and 2 is column B (which explains why we used a two column wide range for the second parameter - it needed to encompass the column the result was in)
This isn't the only way to do this, but it is the easiest.
As Jerry stated VLOOKUP is the simplest way to do this.
HOWEVER if you have multiple/repeat instances (rows) in BRAND, VLOOKUP will only return the first record (row) that appears in your data.
If this is the case, you will need to add either a unique identifier column; and/or additional criteria to differentiate between the repeat instances.
As an example column A is used as a unique identifier to differentiate between the 2 'Nike' rows.
A B C
1 BRAND LEFTOVER
2 Nike 50
3 Adidas 25
4 Reebok 30
5 Nike 29
I feel that you can use vlookup to accomplish your goals.
Let me explain it in a bit detail.Suppose you have two sheets as:
A | B | A | B
--------------------- | -------------------
1 BRAND | LEFTOVER % | 1 BRAND | LEFTOVER
2 X | Y | 2 X | =Vlookup(A2,Sheet2!A:B,False)
3 | | 3 |
Sheet2 | Sheet1
After this you can drag this formula for the entire range. This will automatically make the formula correct for the below cells as well.
Also, if you need to populate any other fields from the Sheet2 then you can also use the vlookup as an array formula like: VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A:B,{1,2,3,4},FALSE)
Enter this as an array formula using Crtl+Shift+Enter
Here {1,2,3,4} stands for the columns to be fetched.
If you want to know more about vlookup then read this article: http://www.exceltrick.com/formulas_macros/vlookup-in-excel