I'm not sure if this is possible but as you can see I have a pivot table with multiple dependent and expandable fields. I am trying to concatenate the data from columns A:D into one cell which works fine in row 2 but doesn't work with blank parent cells, as you can see in column F.
Any ideas for how to achieve this?
Pivot table
This answer assumes that you don't want to just Repeat All Item Labels in the PivotTable from the "Report Layout" drop-down on the Pivt Table Tools "Design" tab.
A formula to get the first non-blank value on or above the same row as the current cell from Column B can be constructed with a combination of AGGREGATE, SUMPRODUCT and OFFSET, like so:
=OFFSET($B2,SUMPRODUCT(AGGREGATE(14,6,ROW($B$1:$B$100)*--(ROW($B$1:$B$100)<=ROW())*--(LEN($B$1:$B$100)>0),1))-ROW(),0)
How does it work?
Starting with the outermost part, OFFSET($B2, VALUE, 0) - this will start in cell B2, then look up or down by VALUE rows to get the value.
Next we need to know how many rows we will need to look up-or-down. Now, if we can work out the bottom-most row with data, we can subtract the current ROW() from that, giving us OFFSET($B2, NON_BLANK-ROW(),0)
So, to finish up we need to work out which rows are not blank, AND which rows are on-or-above our current row, then take the largest of those. This is going to take an ArrayFormula, but we can use SUMPRODUCT to make that calculate properly. To find the largest number we could use MAX or LARGE - but we get less errors if we pick AGGREGATE(14,6,..,1). (The 14 means "we want the kth largest number", the 6 means "ignore error values", and the 1 is k - so "we want the largest number, ignoring errors")
But, what list of numbers are we going to look at, I don't hear you ask. Well, we want the ROW for output from our range (I'm using $B$1:$B$100, because using the whole column B would take far to long to calculate repeatedly), a comparison against the current ROW(), and check that the LENgth is > 0. Those last two are comparisons, so let's write them out first:
ROW($B$1:$B100)<=ROW()
and
LEN($B$1:$B$100)>0
We want to use -- to convert TRUE and FALSE to 1 and 0 - this means that any "bad" values become 0, and any "good" values are larger than 0:
ROW($B$1:$B$100)*--(ROW($B$1:$B$100)<=ROW())*--(LEN($B$1:$B$100)>0)
This gives us the Row number when the Row is on-or-before the current row AND Column B is not blank - if either of those are False, then we get 0 instead. Stick that in the AGGREGATE to find the largest number:
AGGREGATE(14, 6, ROW($B$1:$B$100)*--(ROW($B$1:$B$100)<=ROW())*--(LEN($B$1:$B$100)>0), 1)
Then put it in a SUMPRODUCT to force Excel to treat it as an ArrayFormula, and that's your NON_BLANK. This then gives you that first formula right at the top of the post
In OpenRefine, I'm trying to increase the value of every number in a column by 1.
The GREL expression sum([value],1) gives me Error: sum expects an array of numbers.
I guess I don't know how to produce an array of numbers. When I use a different function on the same column, such as tan([value]), I get the result I want.
I think you misunderstood the use of sum(). If you just want to add 1 to each cell, just use value + 1.
Make sure, however, that your column contains numbers (in green) and not strings (in black). If in doubt, use toNumber(value) + 1 instead.
The sum() function allows to add all the numbers contained in an array, for instance sum([1,2,3,4]) = 10, but you have no array if each cell of your column contains a unique number.
I'm currently in the process of creating an excel volume calculator to help estimate item volume in a home, the problem is I need the sheet to perform individual multiplications, store the value, then sum them all up at the end.
I need the sheet to mulitply the No col by the M3, and store this in the sum, but the sheet has around 200 items so instead of doing each one manually like =sum (A1*B1 + A2*B2 + A3*B3 etc etc) I wondered if there was an easier way?
Example
In a new column, say column X, with the formula =A1*B1 and fill the series for each row. So every cell in that column will be A1*B1, A2*B2,A3*B3, etc.
Now set a new column, say column Y, to =sum(X1:X_?_) where the question mark is the last row you would like to sum.
That will give you your desired A1*B2 + A2*B2, etc.
I am new to asking questions here so I hope I get this correct. I am helping my dad with a spreadsheet and I'm having issues with figuring out how to do one formula. Dont know if it can be done with a formula or if it has to be done with macros.
This is a scoring sheet with multiple matches. For each match there is a total score and the cell next to the score is an X count (number of bulleyes). In the same row (column K) I calculate the top 6 total scores and average them:
=AVERAGE(LARGE((N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15,AF15,AI15,AL15,AO15,AR15,AU15,AX15,BA15,BD15,BG15,BJ15),{1,2,3,4,5,6}))
Now I need to take the AVG of the X counts that are next to the total scores that are used in the formula above and put solution in column L.
For example, if the cells that are used for AVG score in that row are:
N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15
then the cells that would need to be used for the X count AVG would be:
O15,R15,U15,X15,AA15,AD15
This result would be put into L15
Please help. If any clarification is needed just let me know.
Screen Shot:
Please try the following formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(O15:BM15,
--(MOD(COLUMN(N15:BL15)-COLUMN($N15),3)=0),
--(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6>=
LARGE(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6,6))
)/6
How does it work?
SUMPRODUCT has 3 parameters - first is the array to sum, next 2 parameters return an array of 0 and 1 to choose only interesting elements of the first array.
MOD(COLUMN(N15:BL15)-COLUMN($N15),3)=0)
This part is included to avoid listing every single cell. If the score is in every third column of the input range, we can calculate column number relative to first column, and function MOD(column,3) returns: {1,0,0,1,0,0...}. So only every third column of input array will be included in sum.
(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6>=
LARGE(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6,6)
This part is to decide which 6 of the scores should be included in the final sum. The trickiest part is to decide what to do with ties. My approach is to take:
if two scores are the same, take the one with higher number of bulleyes
if it is still tied, take the one from first columns
This means that instead of N15 value we calculate:
N15+O15/10^3+COLUMN(N15)/10^6
With your sample data it evaluates to: 566.017014. First three decimal places is the number of bulleyes, next 3 is column number.
You can use the same formula to calculate average of top 6 scores by changing the first parameter:
=SUMPRODUCT(N15:BL15,
--(MOD(COLUMN(N15:BL15)-COLUMN($N15),3)=0),
--(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6>=
LARGE(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6,6))
)/6
You can try this not so elegant solution:
=SUMPRODUCT(INDEX(N15:BK15,MATCH(LARGE((N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15,AF15,AI15,AL15,AO15,AR15,AU15,AX15,BA15,BD15,BG15,BJ15),{1,2,3,4,5,6}),N15:BK15,0)+1))/6
Entered as array formula by Ctr+Shift+Enter in Cell L15:M15 (2 cells) which should look like this:
{=SUMPRODUCT(INDEX(N15:BK15,MATCH(LARGE((N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15,AF15,AI15,AL15,AO15,AR15,AU15,AX15,BA15,BD15,BG15,BJ15),{1,2,3,4,5,6}),N15:BK15,0)+1))/6}
with added braces.
The number 6 is the equates to the number of top scores you want returned.
Now, why 2 cells (L15:M15). I cannot make SUMPRODUCT evaluate the resulting array from the INDEX so we have to enter it at 2 cells. I don't think that would be a problem since in your screen shot, Column M is not used.
Note: If the range evaluated have less than 6 items, it will error out. Also good point by user3964075. It may or may not be able to deal with ties.
If there is already an answer please redirect me.
I want to get statistics from measurements of my drill holes.
Column A holds the drill hole names, Column B holds the measurements. For every entry of a name in column A I want to return the equivalent range in column B. Then feed that range to the median, min and max functions.
Essentially a vlookup that returns a range instead of just a value.
Thank you.
If the values in column A are sorted ascending, you can get the range with an Index function.
INDEX(B:B,MATCH(E2,A:A,0)):INDEX(B:B,MATCH(E2,A:A,1))
Fed that to the Min() function like this.
=MIN(INDEX(B:B,MATCH(E2,A:A,0)):INDEX(B:B,MATCH(E2,A:A,1)))
See screenshot for the setup. The formula is in cell E3.