I am trying to call a simple cell (Eg: =a1) in Excel. However this "a1" is available in another cell, let's say in cell 'e1'.
In another way, what I mean is e1 cell has the value "a1" in it and for that reason alone I want to call a1. Finally will in turn populate the value that is actually in a1.
I need to do this is because the cell no. that needs to be populated is retrieved from a formula in e1. That is how the cell a1 comes into the picture.
Using the function: =Indirect([cell]) will give you the value in the [cell]. For example, if cell Z1 has the function =Indirect(E1), and E1 has the value A1, will give you the value of A1 in Z1. Then if E1 changes to, say, A2, then cell Z1 will contain the value from A2.
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I want to fill empty cells with value from upper non-empty cells, ms excel have ctrl+d for doing that. but i want one step further I want to do multi hop ctrl+d.
For Example
A1, A3, A9, A25, A28 have some value and all other cells of column A are empty I want to fill cell A2 with value of A1,cells A4 to A8 with value of A3,cells A10 to A25 with value A9,cells A26 to A27 with value of A25
Other columns also have such empty cells and I want to fill them like I want for column A.
Folowing are images of sample excel:
I can fill the empty cells by grading cell down for each hop.
For given example I can fill cells by dragging down A1, A3, A9, A25, A28 each.
But I want to do that in one go because I have this type of empty cells and filled cells in between empty cell in thousands.
how can I do that?
Assuming the 1st table content is in A1:C15, put :
=IF(A2="",E1,A2) in E2
=IF(B2="",F1,B2) in F1
=IF(C2="",G1,C2) in G1
and drag downwards..
Hope it solves..
You might like this trick
Just use simple formula and Ctrl+Shift+V (Paste Special - Skip Empty Cells)
I have a range of data in one column like so:
and I'm trying to copy each value after the one in "A1" and move it one column over and up one row, for example (A2 copied to B1, A3 copied to B2, A4 copied to B3 etc.) like so:
Is there a few lines of code that can do this successfully?
In B1:
=IF(ISBLANK(OFFSET($A1,COLUMN()-1,0)),"",OFFSET($A1,COLUMN()-1,0))
fill down and across
Alternate:
=IF(ROW(B1)>COUNTA($A:$A)-COLUMN(A1),"",INDEX($A:$A,COLUMN(B1)+ROW(B1)-1))
I am using Excel 2016 and have text in another language in column A (currently French but could be another in another spreadsheet) and I want to put a formula in e.g. cell B1 which will translate cell A1 and show the result in B1. I then want to drag the formula down (if possible) so then this formula translates each cell in column and puts the result in the corresponding cell in column B e.g. B2 will have the translation in English for A2 and B3 will have the translation for A3 and so on...
Is this possible?
To answer your question:
"Yes"
...it is definitely possible.
I need a VBA for the whole column B and A says that
if Value of Cell B2 did not change then A2 value will be the same
if B2 value is changed then A2 value will increase by one
Use this formula.
Put your staring number in A1.
Put this in A2:
=IF(B2<>B1,A1+1,A1)
And copy down.
I'd like to know how to pull cell references from the value of another cell and insert them into a formula.
For a simple example:
In cell A1 I have this: COUNT(B4:H4)
Instead of choosing the range when I set up the formula, I'd like this range to be dynamic, based on the value in other cells.
So, I want to type in cell references: in cell B4, I'd type in C5, and in H4 I'd type in C8. How can I set up my formula to look inside cells B4 and H4, but then return the range that is defined by the values in these cells (C5:C8 in this case...)
So in the end, cell A1 would return the count of C5:C8
I hope that makes sense. It seems like something pretty simple but I can't seem to find info on it.
Use INDIRECT()
=SUM(INDIRECT(<start cell here> & ":" & <end cell here>))