return the nearest number value above current cell within a list in Excel 2010 - excel

This is a little difficult to explain but I have a list of data, all in one column, that contains a department number and then below each department number is a long list of brands that correspond to that department number. So within this list there are multiple departments with brands listed underneath them.
My goal is to somehow return the value of the department next to each brand but because the department number is located above the list of brands and the data is changing each time I repull the report, the row numbers will not remain them same and there may be duplicate brand names, and I cannot figure out what formula to use because it is all contained in one column.
I need to come up with some type of formula that doesn't just search, but returns the value of the next number or value above the current cell and skips all of the text or blanks in between so it will grab the department number above it. Is there a way to do this or a better way to accomplish the goal of assigning each brand to the department above it while allowing for changing data each time I pull the report?
I tried replacing all of the text with 0's or blanks and then used the indirect function to say: =IF(BG24="",INDIRECT("BF" & ROW() - 1),""), but I assumed it would continue to loop and skip the zeroes or blanks until it found a number, but it did not, it just returned the zero value.

If I understand your problem correctly, the following formula should do it. Put it in cell B2. In cell A1, I'm assuming that there's the department number.
=IF(ISERROR(A1*1), IF(ISERROR(A2*1), B1, ""), A1)
This will work for a table like the following where no brands are numbers only:
1
Brand1
Brand2
2
Brand1
Brand2
To become:
1
Brand1 1
Brand2 1
2
Brand1 2
Brand2 2

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How to fill cells dynamically based on the value of a cell? How to segregate values based on a particular cell?

Suppose, I have secured Marks for a particular subject which have 5 course Outcomes (each containing 2Marks--Total 10 marks for each subject).
I have the total marks obtained for all the students, but not the marks of each CO.
I want to fill the COs(Column B-F) based on the Column H(Total).
Example- A Student having total of 8 should have the value- 2,2,2,1,1 or 2,2,1,2,1, etc
Conditions-
All the cells should be filled in case of marks with >5
Each cell should have the value between 1 and 2. 0 in case when total is less than 5. As we don't have enough values to fill:
Previously, I used the randbetween(1,2) in Columns B to E (to get random values between 1 and 2) and for Column F, I used the formula =10-SUM(B6:E6)
It works fine, but doesn't work well if the difference is more than 2(which violates our condition)
With 2007 we need to refer to the cell in column A, so change that to an empty cell or text. Put this in B2 and copy over and down:
=IF(SUM($A2:A2)+6-COLUMN(A$1)>=$H2,1,IF($H2/(6-COLUMN(A$1))>=2,2,RANDBETWEEN(1,2)))
with Office 365 we do not need Column A to be blank or text as we no longer need to refer to it:
=LET(
sm,H2,
rng,B2:F2,
clm,COLUMN(rng),
{1,1,1,1,1}+ISNUMBER(MATCH(clm,TAKE(UNIQUE(RANDARRAY(1,100,MIN(clm),MAX(clm),TRUE),TRUE),,sm-5),0)))

Need help in excel formula

1) I have two tables. 1st table contains data for more then 20,000 rows and 2nd table I already have the following columns details i.e. Region, Item, Number and I just have to get the Total value of the product from the 1st table
2) There are two types of prices in the 1st table . One is Retail Price and Another one is a Wholesale price
3) In each of the regions Rep, Item and Numbers are same in most of the cases, but the Total price is different
4) I am able to get the Total price details in 2nd table through vlookup formula (After concatinating the following columns i.e. Region, Item and Number from both the tables) wherever there is an account number for retail price
5) Currently I am manually updating "Total Price" details in 2nd table for Wholesale price which is taking lot of time.
Is it possible to build a formula to get the wholesale price details in the 2nd table, since there are more then one account number, but the price is same
If the wholesale price is the lowest price for the specific item, then you can find it with the formulas MIN and IF.
Based on your screen shot:
D is the column with the list of items
I5 is the cell with the item name for which you want to find the wholesale price
F is the column with the list of prices
If you enter the following formula in cell K5, it should find the lowest price for pencils
=MIN(IF(D:D=I5,F:F))
On this link, there is an explanation if you want to use multiple criteria.
http://www.contextures.com/excelminmaxfunction.html
try the sumifs function.
It takes multiple arguments and criteria. So it should look something like:
cell value at j5 = sumifs(f3:f23, b3:b23, h5, d3:d23, i5....)
you need to mark off which rows in your first table are wholesale selling. So it should be a column of some kind. Once you do that, let's say in column G, then you add onto the sumifs function...
, g3:g23, L5)
What you're doing is summing up all of the values in column F where h5 (region) matches in b3:b23, i5 (item) match in d3:d23, and where L5 (retail type) match in a new column g2:g23.
This will find all of the values that match that criteria exactly.
Vlookup is useful, but it's harder to scale IMO than the advanced if functions.
SUMIFS is probably the better way to go on this one, but as an alternative there is also SUMPRODUCT.
=SUMPRODUCT(($H3=$B$3:$B$20004)*($I3=$D$3:$D$20004)*($J3=$E$3:$E$20004)*($F$3:$F$20004))
The * acts as an AND statement in a logical check, and each of the ($H3=$B$3:$B$20004) is a logical check. When the row is true it will evaluate to 1. When it is false it will evaluate to 0. in the end you wind up with a list of prices or 0s that get summed. The end result is the sum of everything that matches your criteria.
The danger of using this formula is that it can get labour intensive as it is performing array calculations without being an array formula.

To filter multiple columns with a condition on the results

I am trying to find a way of highlighting a result with multiple conditions. I have no knowledge of pivot tables. I would rather use a formula or macros. The table is organised by Dealer.
Acc NAME Add Dealer Total
68687 Sara 11 Wood 111A 0
68687 Sara 11 Wood 111A 0
32187 Sara 11 Wood 111A 0
12345 Tom 10 Main 7878C 2
12345 Tom 10 Main 7878C 2
54321 Tom 10 Main 7878C 2
My table is similar to the one above. I want to select where the Total is greater than 0 & for each Dealer each unique Account number with the lowest Account number highlighted somehow.
So the results I want for the table above would be: Dealer 7878C, Accounts 12345, 54321.
12345 being the lower of the two, it is highlighted.
I don't mind copying the results onto another sheet, as I don't want to remove any data from the sheet. I started by just filtering the Totals for >0 and I was thinking of trying to filter for unique values in Account but its the next step that I am stuck on. A countifs formula?
The sheet is quite large and I'm just not sure which is the best way to try and do it.
Thanks for any help.
There's a nice but complicated way to do it.
With your original data:
With changed data:
As you can see I've placed your data in A1:E7.
I use two array formulas, one for the Dealer in G2:G5 and one for the Accounts H2:N5. The Dealer formula is vertical, and the Accounts formula is horizontal.
For the dealers put this array formula in G2 (press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter it):
=IFERROR(INDEX($D$2:$D$7,SMALL(IF(($E$2:$E$7>0)*(COUNTIF($G$1:$G1,$D$2:$D$7)=0),ROW($D$2:$D$7)-1),ROW($G$1:$G1))),"")
Now copy G2 down to G3:G5 to get the rest of the relevant dealers.
For the accounts put this array formula in H2:
=IFERROR(SMALL(IF(($D$2:$D$7=$G2)*(COUNTIF($G2:G2,$A$2:$A$7)=0),$A$2:$A$7),1),"")
Now copy H2 to the right, I2:N2, and down to H3:N5.
To make the first accounts bold I simply make the H column formatted as Bold.
You can copy these formulas farther as needed. Note that the locations are important. If you want to place the formulas elsewhere you'll need to change the references accordingly.
Formulas explained
What these formulas do is check for your conditions, and then get the smallest value that hasn't been retrieved yet, in the upper / left most cells.
The two formulas are mostly the same, apart from the fact that in the account numbers we can use the actual numbers, and with the dealer we use the row number instead.
The dealer formula from the inside out:
The conditions are set in the IF part of the formula, with a multiplier * as a logical AND (TRUE*TRUE=TRUE FALSE*TRUE=FALSE).
The first condition in IF(($E$2:$E$7>0)*(COUNTIF($G$1:$G1,$D$2:$D$7)=0),... checks for the row's Total value to be greater than zero, the second condition checks that the dealer is not already present in the G column. The second condition is irrelevant in the first cell, but in the second cell G3 it becomes COUNTIF($G$1:$G2,... which returns more than 0 if the dealer already exists, and evaluate to FALSE.
If the conditions are met the IF returns the dealer's index by using its row minus 1 ROW($D$2:$D$7)-1, which returns 1 for the first etc. as the starting row is 2. Otherwise it returns FALSE which is ignored.
The SMALL function returns the k-th smallest item. It ignores the FALSE items, and in our case returns the k-th smallest index that meets the conditions (Total>0 and not already present in the results). SMALL(...,ROW($G$1:$G1) in the first cell return the first item. ROW($G$1:$G2) in the second cell G3 evaluates to 2 and returns the second smallest item, and so forth.
The INDEX function simply returns the dealer from the data according to the index.
And finally, the IFERROR is there only to hide the errors when the end of the results is reached.
based on your sample data and assuming a header row in row 1 and the left column being column A.
=COUNTIF($A$2:A2,A2)
place that in F2 and copy down. Then do a filter on the helper column =1

Automatically working out the average of filtered results

I have a spreadsheet where column P has a score between 1-6
The cell O4 has the following formula: =AVERAGEIFS(P8:P5000,P8:P5000,"<>6",P8:P5000,"<>0")
This formula searches for the average of the score in column P excluding 6, blanks and 0
Column O has staff names e.g John, Mark, Tim.......
What i want to do is for Cell O4 to automatically calculate the average of the figures shown in column P after i have used the filter function to show only results of a selected staff member.
I was hoping excel might be able to do this automatically however cell O4 appears to still be showing the average of the whole column P regardless of whether i have filtered or not.
I was given the formula below on another forum but it seems to be giving slightly wrong results albeit only by a small amount but i need to have the results exact if possible. Any help appreciated.
=SUMPRODUCT(1-ISNUMBER(MATCH(P8:P100,{0,6},0)),SUBTOTAL(9,OFFSET(P8,ROW(P8:P100)-ROW(P8),0,1)))/SUMPRODUCT(1-ISNUMBER(MATCH(P8:P100,{0,6},0)),SUBTOTAL(2,OFFSET(P8,ROW(P8:P100)-ROW(P8),0,1)))
Maybe
{=AVERAGE(IF((P8:P5000<>6)*(P8:P5000<>0)*SUBTOTAL(103,INDIRECT("O"&ROW(8:5000))),P8:P5000))}
will do what you want. Assuming the Filter is on column O.
The 103 in SUBTOTAL will also exclude if rows are manually hidden. If this ist unwanted and it should only exclude hidden rows, if filtered, then use 3 instead.
This is an array formula. Input it into the cell without the curly brackets and then press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Enter] to create the array formula.
I would create a separate table in a new sheet with all unique staff members and then perform the calculation. This way, you can quickly compare values for all staff just by scanning the table instead of having to constantly update the filter to see the values for potentially dozens or hundreds of staff. You would add the staff name range and criteria to your AVERAGEIFS formula.
For your example:
Sheet 2
A B
--- ---
1 | Staff Average
2 | Bob =AVERAGEIFS(Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,Sheet1!$O$8:$O$5000,A2,Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>6",Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>0")
3 | Mary =AVERAGEIFS(Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,Sheet1!$O$8:$O$5000,A3,Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>6",Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>0")
4 | Joe =AVERAGEIFS(Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,Sheet1!$O$8:$O$5000,A4,Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>6",Sheet1!$P$8:$P$5000,"<>0")

How can I remove non-matching values in two different columns and sort in Excel?

I have several columns of data in my Excel spreadsheet.
Originally, I had two different spreadsheets, as they were generated from reports in a software application.
One of the spreadsheets contains the names of individuals who have had transactions with us in the past year. The other spreadsheet contains the names and the phone numbers. I copied and pasted the columns with the names and phone numbers into my spreadsheet with just the names of people who have purchased something from us in the past year.
My ultimate goal is to extract the names and phone numbers of only the names that have purchased something in the past year.
My column for the past year contains 1,002 names, while my master customer list (with phone numbers) contains over 20,000 individuals. I need the phone numbers of all of the individuals that have purchased something from us in the past year, but I don't want to have to manually go through 1,000 names (and, essentially, 20,000+ to find the match).
If I can achieve my goal without having to use VBA, that would be great. If this is the only route I can take, then I will go that route, but I would like to avoid coding if possible. (This is simply due to time constraints.)
The VLOOKUP function is likely the best solution for you. From the Excel documentation, it:
Looks for a value in the leftmost column of a table, and then returns
a value in the same row from a column you specify. By default, the
table must be sorted in an ascending order.
Note well the implication of that last sentence: the column you're searching in (leftmost column of the lookup table) must be sorted in ascending order for this function to produce the correct results.
Taking a simple example, let's say you have Sheet1 in your Excel workbook with the following information:
A B C
1 Name Transactions Phone
2 Sally 3
3 Alice 5
4 Joe 2
5 Jon 1
You need to add their phone numbers to this sheet, from another workbook. Let's say your phone number information in the other workbook looks like this:
A B
1 Name Phone
2 Alice 2222222
3 Bill 3333333
4 Bob 4444444
5 Jim 5555555
6 Joe 6666666
7 Sally 7777777
8 Sue 8888888
9 Tom 9999999
Take the following steps to add the phone numbers to Sheet1 in the first workbook:
Copy the phone information into a blank sheet in the first workbook. Let's call this Sheet2 for this example.
Make sure the phone information is sorted ascending by the Name column (A), because that's the leftmost column and thus the lookup column.
In cell C2 of Sheet1 (the empty phone cell for Sally), enter: =VLOOKUP(A2, Sheet2!A$2:B$9, 2,FALSE).
Drag-copy this formula down to the remaining cells in the Phone column.
Result:
A B C
1 Name Transactions Phone
2 Sally 3 7777777
3 Alice 5 2222222
4 Joe 2 6666666
5 Jon 1 #N/A
Notes:
The second parameter (Table_array - the lookup data range) should not include the column headings. As you can see, it's Sheet2!A$2:B$9 so it includes the information from rows 2 to 9 in columns A and B.
The last parameter (Range_lookup) should be set to FALSE so you don't pick up the information from the closest match. Note how Jon has no matching phone number record, so his Phone is set to "#N/A" - otherwise he would have been assigned Joe's phone number since that's closest match to Jon.
Parameter documentation:
Lookup_value is the value to be found in the first column of the table, and can be a value, a reference, or a text string.
Table_array is a table of text, numbers, or logical values, in which data is retrieved. Table_array can be a reference to a range or
a range name.
Col_index_num is the column number in Table_array from which the matching value should be returned. The first column of values in
the table is column 1.
Range_lookup is a logical value: to find the closest match in the first column (sorted in ascending order) = TRUE or omitted; find
an exact match = FALSE.

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