I am not programming in VBA. This is a simple excel spreadsheet. Essentially, I have a formula the finds the lowest price in a range of cells and returns its respective column title. It works fine. However, some ranges do not have any values at all. So, the cell that populates with the column header displays #N/A in this case.
What I need to do is check whether or not this happens. If the result is #N/A, I want the cell to show "No Values to Reference." I was thinking something along the lines of:
=IF(CELL != NULL, Display_Header, ELSE "No Bids to Reference")
OR
=IF(CELL = NULL, No Bids to Reference", ELSE Display_Header)
I have tried both NULL and #N/A but I am not sure how Excel handles these situations. That is, how Excel handles #N/A returns.
IF(INDEX($D$1:$M$1,MATCH(MIN(D3:M3),D3:M3,0))= "#N/A","No Bids To Reference", INDEX($D$1:$M$1,MATCH(MIN(D3:M3),D3:M3,0)))
Since you have only one calculation here, you can simply use an IFERROR:
=IFERROR(INDEX($D$1:$M$1,MATCH(MIN(D3:M3),D3:M3,0)),"No Bids To Reference")
The IFERROR checks whether the expression evaluates to an error (it can be #N/A, #VALUE! or #REF!). If true, evaluate the next expression, otherwise return the first expression.
I would CTL+G, Special, and replace the values of all cells with formula errors.
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I have the following formula to make a unique list from column plant in table 15:
{=IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant];MATCH(0;COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2;Tabel15[Plant]);0));"")}
This formula is working, but when there is just 1 value in column plant the formula gives a value of 0. This is wrong because it should return the value.
Does anyone know how I can adapt this formula to make it work?
I wanted to change it to this:
{=IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[plant])>0;INDEX(Tabel15[Plant];MATCH(0;COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2;Tabel15[Plant]);0));Kopie - datablad$G$2)}
But it doesn't work either.
Good mock example. Try and see if this works:
The formula counts the unique cells against another list. The unique list expects to take the first row, no matter what. It also expects you to have more than one value in your duplicate list. If it doesn't you can't compare since it expect duplicates and it throws an error, #N/A. This is mask as blank cell since it's wrapped in IFERROR:
"Unique formula" = IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF($Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),"")
To solve this we check how many values it exist in our duplicate list:
=IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,... "Unique formula" ... ,Tabel15[Plant]) //***//
This will give us this result.
Then you probably don't want duplicates...
So we need to check if previous rows contain any of the values the formula would return.
The VLOOKUP formula do that for us, and as lookup value we use the formula above //***// and lookup range will be our current column: $Q$1:Q2. NOTICE this is a dynamic range so Q2 is relative reference (no $).
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF($Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),$Q$1:Q2,1,FALSE))
So the Final result we need to apply is this in Cell Q3:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,1,FALSE)),IF(COUNTA(Tabel15[Plant])>1,IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$1:Q2,Tabel15[Plant]), 0)),""),Tabel15[Plant]),"")
The macro error can be ignored by:
If Not IsError(Sheets("Hulpblad").Range("B6").Value) Then
t = Sheets("Hulpblad").Range("B6").Value
'Code...
End If
there is no problem in your formula, it is just telling that there are blanks in the range, 0 means blank. the formula is treating the blank as a value and also considering it in the unique value calculations.
If you want to remove 0 you can just insert an if over your formula to remove it. like
=if(formula = 0, "", formula)
or in orignal form
=IF( (IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2,Tabel15[Plant]),0)),""))=0,"",IFERROR(INDEX(Tabel15[Plant],MATCH(0,COUNTIF(Analyses!$Q$2:$Q2,Tabel15[Plant]),0)),""))
or go in the cell formatting and change the format to display 0 as a dash.
sometimes blank is also used as error checking, you can apply such formulae as well to check how many are blank, maybe that would someday be used to check any data entry problems.
I have the below formula which looks up a value of a cell in a column (B3:B14), based on a column of random (rand()) values (J3:J14)-
=INDEX(Wordlist_Upper!$B$3:$B$14, IF(Wordlist_Upper!$B$3:$B$14<>"", RANK(Wordlist_Upper!J7, Wordlist_Upper!$J$3:$J$14)))
This works fine however it sometimes returns blank values as some of the content of cells B3:B14 may be blank.
Is there a way to instruct it to only return values if the cells contain something (ie. ignore blank cells within the range B3:B14)?
Thanks
UPDATE: I've tried adding IF(Wordlist_Upper!$B$3:$B$14<>"", in the middle, but it still returns blanks
You were on the right track, but your IF evaluation is invalid, which has a knock-on effect on your INDEX statement.
Try this instead, or at least a variant tailored to your data.
=if((isblank(index($B$3:$B$14,rank(J7,$J$3:$J$14,0))))=true,"cell is empty",isblank(index($B$3:$B$14,rank(J7,$J$3:$J$14,0))))
This nests several components. The main different compared to your formula (besides syntax) is the order of the nesting.
These are the components:
1 - index($B$3:$B$14,rank(J7,$J$3:$J$14,0))
This gets a cell value from column B. The row offset is the rank (an integer) of cell J7 among the numbers in column J.
2 - isblank(index($B$3:$B$14,rank(J7,$J$3:$J$14,0)))
This evaluates whether the cell obtained by the INDEX component is empty of not. If the cell is blank, then the formula will return TRUE; if the cell is not empty, then the formula will return FALSE.
3 - if(isblank()=TRUE,"cell is empty", index())
The last component is the IF statement. To paraphrase:
If the cell in column B is blank (i.e. isblank() = TRUE), then display some text saying the cell is empty, otherwise the cell isn't empty (i.e. isblank()=FALSE) so return the value generated by the INDEX statement.
Obviously you should substitute your alternate value in place of my "cell is empty" string. To be honest, I couldn't figure out what you wanted to do when the cell was empty, otherwise I would have completed the formula.
I've been struggling with this for a while now, i use a Sumifs in excel to evaluate over a range of data,
My problem is that it returns the blank cells as zeros instead of blank,
is there a way to make the cell return as blank when looking at multiple ranges,
The above link is what the data looks like and the below link is what the sumifs returns, i need it to return blanks where the data is blank instead of zero,
The equation i am using is =SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C;Sheet1!$A:$A;Sheet2!$A2;Sheet1!$B:$B;Sheet2!$B2) where sheet 1 is the sheet with the data and sheet 2 is the table where the sumifs evaluates to,
Also if the value is blank in the data it must return blank, but if it is zero in the data it must return as a zero.
Please someone help me.
You can use IF condition to check if the total is zero.
=IF(SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C,Sheet1!$A:$A,Sheet2!$A2,Sheet1!$B:$B,Sheet2!$B2)=0,"",SUMIFS(Sheet1!C:C,Sheet1!$A:$A,Sheet2!$A2,Sheet1!$B:$B,Sheet2!$B2))
Apply cell formatting to hide zeros 0;-0;;#
My formula:
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B2,Dists!$D$1:$D$22250,1,FALSE) & AND(B2<>"")),"","MATCHES")
This essentially looks at B2 to see if it returns a VLOOKUP value and if it's blank.
If it's not blank, and VLOOKUP returns a value, then it displays "MATCHES" in the designated cell. If it does not return a value or it is blank, it displays the cell as blank.
I would like to expand on this, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. I am trying to have a cell display blank if B2 is blank, but display "NOT FOUND" if it's not blank and the VLOOKUP returns false. It will display "MATCHES" if the vlookup returns a value.
For example..
B2 is blank so my cell shows as blank.
B2 is not blank and VLOOKUP returns true, so my cell says MATCHES.
B2 is not blank and VLOOKUP returns false, so my cell says NOT FOUND.
Any clue?
Use this:
=IF(B2="","",IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B2,Dists!$D$1:$D$22250,1,FALSE)),"NOT FOUND","MATCHES"))
While your code has other structural errors resolved in the answer provided by Scott, your original function =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B2,Dists!$D$1:$D$22250,1,FALSE) & AND(B2<>"")),"","MATCHES") uses the AND() function incorrectly.
AND(), OR(), XOR(), and NOT() in Excel are placed before the different condition. For example, =IF(OR(A1="Foo",A1="Bar"),"Yes","No") returns YES when A1 contains either Foo or Bar.
Microsoft Office Support - AND() function
I have multiple Excel workbooks in which there are many columns. There will be a column in English and a column in Spanish. What I am trying to do is compare the two columns to see if the Spanish column does indeed have translated text from English. That's easy enough:
IF(A2=C2, "NOT TRANSLATED", "TRANSLATED")
However, there are hundreds of cells that simply do not have values in both the English and Spanish columns. So the formula I used above will say "Yes, these are technically the same value even though they're null, so no translation has been done". This is causing it to seem like there are far too many "NOT TRANSLATED" values than there actually are. This is what I tried:
IF(A2=C2, "NOT TRANSLATED", "TRANSLATED", IF(ISBLANK(A2)=TRUE, "NULL VALUE", "CHECK VALUE"))
That gives me an error though.
I am thinking that I need to have a function that first checks to see if the cell has a value to begin with. If it does, then the formula should proceed to check to see if the two cells have identical values or not. If either cell does not have a value, then it should return "NULL VALUE". Any ideas?
You're effectively giving the IF function 4 parameters with that second formula. IF accepts at least 1 mandatory parameter (the condition) and then 2 optional parameters (what to do if it returns TRUE or FALSE).
Instead you need to nest your IF conditions with something like:
IF(A2=C2, IF(ISBLANK(A2)=TRUE, "NULL VALUE", "CHECK VALUE"), "TRANSLATED")
Which checks to see if A2=C2, if it is then it checks to see if A2 is blank, if it is (and A2=C2 remember) then it returns "NULL VALUE", if it isn't (but A2 is still equal to C2) then it reurns "CHECK VALUE" and if A2 isn't equal to C2 then it returns "TRANSLATED".
Obviously you might want to tweak this for your problem.
Wooo!!! With a little help from you guys I got it. It looks like this:
=IF(AND(ISBLANK(A2)=TRUE; ISBLANK(B2)=TRUE); "NULL"; IF(OR(ISBLANK(A2)=TRUE; ISBLANK(B2)=TRUE); "NOT TRANSLATED"; IF(A2=B2; "NOT TRANSLATED"; "TRANSLATED")))
That one was a monster.
You might find this formula helpful, it will check for a null value in either column
{=IF(OR(A1:B1=""),"Null Value",IF(A1=B1,"Not Translated","Translated"))}
Leave out the curly braces and enter the function using Ctrl+Shift+Enter
You can drag that down for the following results
a a Not Translated
b c Translated
d Null Value
e Null Value
Null Value
f f Not Translated
Try:
=IF(OR(LEN(A2)=0,LEN(C2)=0),"IS NULL",IF(A2=C2, "NOT TRANSLATED", "TRANSLATED"))