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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 20:53 
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Also demonstrating serious proficiency with excel usually involves saying "don't use Excel for this"


One of my colleagues was on the phone with someone from Microsoft support today because something we were doing was working and we couldn't see how it was possible and their response was basically 'That shouldn't work :shrug: '

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 0:43 
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Cras wrote:
Also demonstrating serious proficiency with excel usually involves saying "don't use Excel for this"


Yeah, I get what you're saying and it's an amusing way to phrase it - Excel is a tool that isn't suitable for all purposes BUT it is still very capable and for many is a familiar way of working so I do see why a lot of people use it as their first go-to (indeed, I do)

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:29 
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Yeah, it can get out of hand, though. Quite a few of the things we've done at work are to replace some insane excel solution that's causing issues, but then there were probably bigger issues that got solved by their ad-hoc solution so I can see both sides.


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:12 
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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 15:03 
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There must be a more efficient way of doing this. Any idea? I'm rubbish at Excel.

Code:
=((I2*C2)+(I3*C3)+(I4*C4)+(I5*C5)+(I6*C6)+(I7*C7)+(I8*C8)+(I9*C9)+(I10*C10)+(I11*C11)+(I12*C12)+(I13*C13)+(I14*C14))/C15

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 15:24 
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You could have a column J where J2=I2*C2 then copy that formula all the way down. Then at the bottom of J (which is presumably J15) have the formula sum(J2:J14) then have a cell that is just J15/C15

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 15:24 
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Oh yeah, that’s nice. Thanks.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:21 
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Apologies for this being a dumb-as-rocks question, especially as my entire job used to revolve around Excel and I was pretty damned good with it, but having a baby turned my brain to potato.

I am making a meal planner (again, potato brain) with drop downs that feet in from the secondary sheets.

I want a text field in a cell to only show if another cell is populated by text from one of the options in a drop down. Does that make sense? Maybe a screenshot will explain better than I can.

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So, where it says 'with' or 'and' - I only want to show those if the thing has an accompaniment. So Bagel WITH cheese and ham, but not French Toast WITH <blank> - I just want that to say 'French Toast'.

It's in this kiddy's learning font because I'm making it for a little'un.


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:27 
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I would make a table with the main part of meal in one column and the extras in subsequent column and then use vlookup I think

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:35 
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It’s ok, I’ve got it. Thank you though x

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:36 
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Assuming I've got what you were trying, i'd do something like this:

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=IF(B5<>"","with","")


in the "with" boxes, and something similar in the "and" boxes. B5 being the cell under French Toast in this example, so if B5 is not empty, it shows with, if it is empty it doesn't show anything.

I think, haven't actually fired up a spreadsheet to test it.


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:42 
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Something like that

I have called the first table "mains" and then in the cell to the right of French Toast, Sanwich Thin and Bolognese I have a formular like this:

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,2,FALSE)

in the cell below that (where the first and would appear) I have

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,3,FALSE)

and the one below that (where the 2nd would be appear) I have

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,4,FALSE)


Bit Clunky, but hopefully you get the idea


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:58 
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Trooper wrote:
Assuming I've got what you were trying, i'd do something like this:

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=IF(B5<>"","with","")


in the "with" boxes, and something similar in the "and" boxes. B5 being the cell under French Toast in this example, so if B5 is not empty, it shows with, if it is empty it doesn't show anything.

I think, haven't actually fired up a spreadsheet to test it.


Roundabout:
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=IF(B5="","","with")

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:59 
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Malc wrote:
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Something like that

I have called the first table "mains" and then in the cell to the right of French Toast, Sanwich Thin and Bolognese I have a formular like this:

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,2,FALSE)

in the cell below that (where the first and would appear) I have

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,3,FALSE)

and the one below that (where the 2nd would be appear) I have

=VLOOKUP(M4,mains,4,FALSE)


Bit Clunky, but hopefully you get the idea


I do, but I went with the other way as I'd already 99% set it up that way, but thank you :)

Honestly, I'm pretty sure my mind is permanent fudge now, but it's definitely been worse since lockdown.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2021 10:44 
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Hello.

I can't work this out.

Column A has product numbers. In columns J,K, and L I want the delivery dates. These sit on a separate worksheet (product number in column F and delivery in date in P. One product can have more than delivery dates as separate orders.

I think I need an index function and array it, is that right?

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2021 11:28 
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Oh so close now.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2021 11:50 
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Hello.

I can't work this out.

Column A has product numbers. In columns J,K, and L I want the delivery dates. These sit on a separate worksheet (product number in column F and delivery in date in P. One product can have more than delivery dates as separate orders.

I think I need an index function and array it, is that right?



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=IFERROR(INDEX(PO!$P$3:$P$33333, SMALL(IF(PO!$F:$F:F=$A6, ROW(PO!P:P)-ROW(PO!$P$3)+1), COLUMN(A5)}},"")


Pleased with that.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:16 
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Hellloooo, I need excel help please!

I have a spreadsheet. In the first sheet are 2000+ products, with the following headings:
Vendor Product code Product name Category Secondary categories Price Quantity Status Shipping freight Free shipping Description Taxes Inventory tracking Zero price action Page title Meta keywords Meta description Search words Options Short description Out of stock actions Min quantity Language Product id Image URL Items in box Box size SEO name Weight Product URL

In the second sheet are 1000ish products (originating from sheet 1 but with the unwanted ones culled).

There are different column headings in sheet 1 and sheet 2, but they are the same products.

I need to put all of the rows from sheet 1 that exist in sheet 2 into sheet 3 - hopefully using the SKU (which is "Product code" in sheet 1, "SKU" in sheet 2).

I thought this - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/563 ... tching-key - would help but honestly it just made me more confused and I'm at the point where I will literally just pay someone to do this for me if I can't figure it out in the next few hours :D

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:26 
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I'm assuming you've got access to a mySQL db - it might be easiest to just load both sheets into a couple of tables and then just use something "Select * from table1 where product_code in (select SKU from table2)"

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:32 
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Yeah, that was going to be my backup plan if I couldn't figure it out in excel. (I could have probably done it 10 times over in mysql by now. Stubborness sucks :DD )

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:40 
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I'd add a copy sheet 1 to sheet 3, and add a column at the end doing a VLOOKUP against sheet 2, , filter on #N/A and delete them.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:00 
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That sounds easier than the pivot thing, I'll do that.

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:40 
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Much like Mali, I was also going to say it looked like VLOOKUP would be the solution to me (I can't do SQL or VBA though, so there may be a better way if you need to do this often).

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 16:16 
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How do I make a formula return a blank cell and not just an empty string?


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 16:25 
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DavPaz wrote:
How do I make a formula return a blank cell and not just an empty string?


Not answering your question, but countblank will count "" returned from a formula, so that might help.


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 16:26 
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Cheers, I'll try it


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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 16:28 
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Yep, that worked for what I needed. Thanks Excel Guru


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:45 
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Excel Help please.

I'm tracking my son's football team's results and the coach has asked me to add assists to the stats. I've been able to use the same formula that I use for tracking MOTM for now, where a countif checks a cell for a certain string, but it occurs to me that someone might get more than one assist in a game.

=countif(League!B24:Z24,"*PLAYERNAME*")

Does anyone have a way of counting how many times a certain string appears in a given cell?

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sumif?

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 Post subject: Re: Excel help
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:51 
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I haven't looked, but I am pretty sure I was able to use sum if in a similar situation (where I needed to sum multiple cells, rather than just count them) If that doesn't work, let me know, and I'll try and actually mock up some data and see what's needed

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:53 
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No, that just returns a zero. It needs to count all occurrences of a string across a range of cells where the string could appear multiple times in each cell, with other strings.

You can see why I'm struggling to wrap my head around it


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DavPaz wrote:
No, that just returns a zero. It needs to count all occurrences of a string across a range of cells where the string could appear multiple times in each cell, with other strings.

You can see why I'm struggling to wrap my head around it


Can you provide sample data? (with the names removed)

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=(LEN(B2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B2,"sheila","")))/LEN("shiela")

That'll count for a specific cell, add the cells up for a range of cells I guess


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But what if they weren't called Sheila?

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Thanks gents. I've copied the system I use to track goals.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 3:21 
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Sounds like the data being input isn't all that helpful to begin with, why is there not just a # for goals (be it 0, 1, 2 whatever) and the same for assists.

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