Good day to anyone who can help!
I have two long columns in excel of employee names stretching over 1000 in each one. They are not in any order.
One column shows a list of employees who worked for the company 10th January and the other column shows who works for the company 10th February. Now there will be leavers and there will be new starts so the names and amount of employees will have changed.
Is there a way in an excel spreadsheet to highlight this difference? Whether it highlights all the names that match or it highlights the names that don't. I need a way of finding out the difference between the two columns to show essentially who has left the company as keeping this record of who has left isn't available. All I can get is a list of current employees and when they have started. I need to find who has left in between the two dates.
I hope this makes sense.
Many Thanks
If each list contains only uniques, then Conditional Formatting with two rules may suit:
ColumnA: =COUNTIF(B:B,A1)<>1
ColumnB: =COUNTIF(A:A,B1)<>1
each applied to the occupied range of the respective column.
I would recommend using VLOOKUP twice - it basically searchs a given list for a value and returns something if the value is found. If it does not find the value, it returns #NV
So, you create two new columns: Number One contains a vlookup for january, the scond one for february.
The rest is conditional formatting.
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I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to import a data, in a sort of a COUNTIF function but only for the data dated today?
I have 2 sheets, Attendance and Department.
In the Department tab, I have a list of employee's in column A. In column B and so on, I have a drop down option to select which department they're are stationed for each day. Each column represent a day, B being the 1st, C being 2nd, ... and so on. The header for each column has the day for the day as well.
On the attendance sheet, I have the list of Department in column A and in B, it is used to record how many employee are stationed at that department. I also have the day for the day on this sheet on A1.
Is it possible that when I change the date, the number of employee stationed in each department will change according to the date?
Is it possible to do this with just functions?
I've tried using the COUNTIF function, but I've found that I will have to change the range on a daily basis.
Use The Function: in B4 of Attendance Tab
=COUNTIF(INDIRECT("Department!" &ADDRESS(3,MATCH($A$1,Department!$A$2:$P$2,0)) & ":" &ADDRESS(6,MATCH($A$1,Department!$A$2:$P$2,0))),$A4)
Results: Attendance Tab
Department Tab:
I have used all the references as in the screenshots, you can change them if they are different in your sheet.
your question can be solved by SUMPRODUCT function. See below solution picture:
SOLUTION
Just to quickly explain my solution, I gave a name to the date on the Department sheet, called it 'Date_Lookup'; and I gave a name to the dates on the Attendance sheet, called it 'Date_List'. Names will simplify my formula especially when referencing across worksheets.
You will eventually find a lot of COUNIF scenario can be solved by SUMPRODUCT and this is just one example. SUMPRODUCT can do a lot IFs than COUNTIFS can do. In your case there are two criteria, one is which department did an employee attend to, and the other is on which date did the employee attend to that particular department. So my SUMPRODUCT formula can be understood as:
=SUMPRODUCT(('from the list of dates'='the particular date I want to see')*('from the full attendance record'='how many employees went to the given department'))
Let me know if you have difficulties understand my answer. A good 1 hour read through some online articles regarding SUMPRODUCT will help.
Cheers :)
Your first step would be to use a function to work out in which column the entered date appears. So in your Department sheet you enter a date in A1, then set B1 to:
=IFERROR(MATCH(A1, Attendance!2:2, 0), 0)
I use the IFERROR as I don't like seeing errors on my sheet. Assuming the result isn't zero, use a COUNTIF looking for the department letter in a range in the result column. I'd simply use on OFFSET to get the right range, but sticklers would tell you to find a different way of doing it. So long as your spreadsheet isn't going to increase in size to a massive complexity, OFFSET is fine.
Formula to add all occurrences where a name pops up in a column (multiple columns) and return the summed value of all adjacent cells. For more clarification see
Example Attached
In this circumstance I want it to find all of Jim's adding to 5, all of George adding to 4, and all of Terry adding to 7. The challenge is each column will have the names randomly assorted and some times the name may not show up for that day.
Is it possible to search all days for the month (for this example) and add the total of the adjacent column for each person if I input their name?
I was looking into SUMIF functions but I can only get that to work if its all in 2 columns, with the way this one is approached I can only work through multiple columns.
Thank you for any assistance!
Use SUMIF, You will need to provide the list of names:
=SUMIF(Y:AC,"Jim",Z:AD)
Note the offset but same size ranges. Also change "Jim" to a cell that contains the name you want to sum.
I run an open order report for a warehouse team every two days, and then go through the open orders; and email vendors to confirm their delivery date as pointed out by the report.
Naturally the reports are going to have some of the same information every other day, but there will be new orders, as well.
What I need to be able to do is figure out a way to tell the new spreadsheet to determine if any of the information in the new sheet was in the old sheet.
For example.
A, B, C, D, is Delivery Date, Part Number, Part Description, and Purchase Order Number - Respectively.
Information in spreadsheets in internal and confidential, otherwise I would post a photo of it, to help understand.
I want it to tell me if those items match between both spreadsheets, so that I don't suddenly end up asking twice about an order or have to go line by line to match up. Because that takes FOREVER.
Assuming the purchase orders are unique day to day, you can use the match function in a column on the new orders page to see if the same PO is on the old PO's tab. If you get a #N/A the values are unique. Otherwise, Match will return the row number of the matching value.
If you need to match on multiple values (e.g. Date, PO, Part#) then use the concatenate formula to create a multi-part key.
=Concatenate(Text(DateCell, "YYYYMMDD"),"_", PO,"_", Part#)
Then put the same formula on both sheets and do the match on your new key column.
If you want to test for equality across all items, you can do it easily with an array formula. Here is an example that compares 4 columns (similar to you) for exact matches. It multiples the combined result by ROW so that you can see where the last match occurs. It is the last one because MAX is used.
Hopefully you can see how this would be extended to your case. Note that this is an array formula (entered with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER) in cell F2 copied down through the column.
Formula in cell F2
=MAX((A2=$H$2:$H$21)*(B2=$I$2:$I$21)*(C2=$J$2:$J$21)*(D2=$K$2:$K$21)*ROW($H$2:$H$21))
This formula works by building up a product of comparisons which is the same as an AND operation. This will be a 1 if the conditions are all true. That 1 is then multiplied by the ROW so that the match location is returned.
Picture with a couple matching rows colored and the ranges in color to see how the formula works.
I have a spread sheet populated with dates (Months) and revenue figures. The sheet is structured with numerous tables all containing these month-revenue pairings but they are not all in the same columns.
I need to be able to search the whole range of cells for a given month and then each time the month is found I need to look across for the revenue figure (5 cells to the right) and return the answer.
The answer returned needs to give the total figure for all instances of the search term.
VLookup won't work because there are multiple tables and they are not all lined up.
Any advice would be very gratefully received.
Thanks
You should use a VBA script for that, IMHO this is not possible to do in a formula. Here is a rough outline what you need to do:
Define an array of the month names as they appear in you sheet
Iterate this array and for each month name find all cells containing it (this might help)
Iterate all cells of each month and do your calculation based on this cell (find a cell with a certain offset or whatever)
If you cen provide a more specific description of your problem (preferably with example data/images), maybe we can give you a more specific answer.
I've been searching for a solution to my problem for days and haven't had any luck. Maybe I simply can't manage to search for the right wording for this problem but hopefully somebody will understand me here.
I'm having difficulties displaying data that is present in several columns at the same time, in my case the data to be displayed are trading days for various stocks. As the trading days vary between stocks I would like to have a column that displays the dates present in all other columns to only see trading days in common for all stocks.
I apologize if I'm unclear as this is my first question here. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Here's the google spreadsheet link so you can see what I mean by different amount of trading days. The idea is to have column A display dates which are present in columns B,F,J,N,R,V at the same time but not show the other ones.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19GsIAtEdWPGcBfNOPaeqNVB7QQNO-bOyg-dCZzDaGkQ/edit?usp=sharing
EDIT: To show the desired output I'm looking for, here's another example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jrIqaEzDPWcW4hkF2YdHq9XYIWjG8PhrewYrBHqEdVY/edit?usp=sharing
The dates are automatically pulled from google finance. As the various exchanges are open on different dates, each stock has a varying amount of open days in columns B-E.
What I'm trying to do is have a formula in Column A that checks all the other columns and returns the data (in this case the date) that appears in every other column, discarding the data that doesn't appear in all other columns. For example 3/9/2013 appears in all columns B-E therefore it is shown, however 12/09/2013 doesn't appear in column B therefore it isn't shown.
Cheers
your dates are in european (UK) style, ie: 31/12/2014 but your spreadsheet is saved as US standard. This will cause some dates to be stored as text, as they are considered invalid. Ti will also couse unexpected results if you try to do any calculations or comparisons using your data. Go to File -> Spreadsheet settings and under locale choose correct country.
Then select all date columns, and click format->number->date or click the 123v button on tool bar, and choose date.
to simplify your problem:
for a value to be repeated across all 6 columns, that value must appear in column B.
you therefore want column A to contain the value of the adjacent cell in column B, if that value also appears anywhere in column F,J,N,R and V.
to check if value of B4 appears in column F you can use COUNTIF function. If the result if >0, than value of B4 appears in column F. Repeat for all columns and combine to achieve the following formula (to go in cell A4) :
=if(countif(F:F,B4)*countif(J:J,B4)*countif(N:N,B4)*countif(R:R,B4)*countif(V:V,B4),B4,)
now copy this formula down, and only dates that appear in all columns will be displayed in column A.
Use IF and COUNTIF. I think this is what you are looking for.
IF(COUNTIF(B4:V4,B4)=6,B4,NA())