I have a sheet that needs to be updated monthly with a formula that needs to change with the month.
This is the formula: =IF($S3=AI$1,[#July],0)
The check is to make sure my values go into the correct category. After the category is determined correct, I need to take the month's values by referencing the month column in my table.
Question: Is there any way to make it so when I change the month somewhere, I can make the formula essentially move over a column to take the new month's values?
Note: I also have a similar case where instead of taking the month values verbatim, I'm summing the year's values til said month.
So I assume you have a table with column name January to December.
You can do this in at least two ways (I assume your month number is in cell A1)
Explicit: (in case these columns are not in order or adjacent to another)
=CHOOSE(A1,[#January],[#February], ... ,[#December])
Implicit: (if the months are next to each other:
=INDEX(TableName[#[January]:[December]],A1)
Obviously, I'd recommend the second option, if applicable.
If you want to sum from januar to the current month, you can use this little know trick/syntax:
=SUM([#January]:INDEX(TableName[#[January]:[December]],A1))
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I have a table in excel with months as columns and couple of rows with data. I would like to add a column on the end of the table that will populate with data from the table as the YTD sum of the month columns. The YTD sum will be based on dynamic selection of the month selected from a list. Have a look at the attached image to see what I mean please, in the example Aug-16 has been selected in column P and the YTD total is returned correctly for this period (this is what I want to happen, but not sure how to?:
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The dynamic selector I can do fine (Data validation -> list) but I'm not sure how to populate the column with the correct data, that is YTD for the month selected in the dynamic column added. Not sure if it can be done with MATCH, INDEX etc? I tried, also VLOOKUP, but not working....
One solution is to use this formula using the same parameters as your example image.
=SUM(C3:OFFSET(C3,0,MATCH($P$2,$C$2:$N$2,0)-1))
I set up a google forms form for my work where my employees pass information and this information is recorded in a spreadsheet. The information, when recorded, automatically inserts a date and time in the first column of form responses. However, when I enter the code = month (a1), it always returns the answer "1" or "January" and this information does not match the date entered in the column. How do I fix this?
If you are entering '=month(a1)' for every row, then you are always taking the month of the top left cell in the sheet. You would need to adjust the row number for the row you are in.
You could use something like '=month(now())' to ensure you are always getting the month of the current date.
I have a table that I am creating in relation to toolhire and I have many columns for on hire / off hire / days utilised. in the columns next to the on hire and off hire dates, I have it set to write the words ON and OFF when a date is entered into that cell. I want to set up a column at the end of the table which will look back through the row and tell me whether the item is currently ON or OFF by finding whether the last word it finds is ON or OFF.
If a row spans ColumnsA:M say, and contains only blanks, numeric values or ON or OFF then please try, say in ColumnN and for Row2:
=INDEX(A2:M2,MATCH("zzz",A2:M2))
Basically I have the following formulas:
Column J: =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(I2,CCG,1,FALSE)),"Out of Area",VLOOKUP(I2,CCG,1,FALSE))
Column K: =INDEX(ResponsibleAgency,MATCH(N3,LeftLookup,0),MATCH(J3,TopLookup,0))
Column L: =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(N3,PPLookup,2,FALSE)),"Missing F Code",VLOOKUP(N3,PPLookup,2,FALSE))
Column M: =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(N3,PPLookup,3,FALSE))," ",VLOOKUP(N3,PPLookup,3,FALSE))
Basically, I only want these formulas to activiate provided that column A is populated with a date. If there is no date in column A, I want the cells to remain blank.
Is this possible?
Technically speaking, it is not possible to tell if cell contains a date or not in strict sense.
In Excel dates are in fact numbers representing number of days since January 1, 1900. I.e. today is 42066. It's the formatting that makes those numbers look like dates to user. If you pass a cell containing a date to any formula, it receives this number.
As a workaround, you can check if the cell satisfies two conditions:
It is a number.
It falls into some date range that makes sense.
For example, if your column contains goods delivery dates you usually don't expect them be previous century or 50 years into the future.
So you can wrap your formulae into something like this:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A1),IF(AND(A1>=DATE(2014,1,1),A1<=DATE(2015,12,13)),[LOGIC_IF_CORRECT_DATE_HERE],""),"")
Being said, it's still a workaround.
We're currently porting some excel reports to SSRS. One of those reports has a graph where the last column is the MTD (Month to date) average for both series (Availability and Availability Goal) just like the example below:
I did some research about RunningValue() but whenever I did it it would add a second bar to my graph (the running value would have the same group).
Is it possible to have only one aggregate column (just like the screenshot) ?
Thanks in advance,
One way would be to force the average through the SQL query. For example, if your resulting table shows days of the month, and the Availability value, you could UNION a "dummy" day (max days of the month + 1) with the averaged value. You can either add an addition column to your SQL for the label names, i.e. the "dummy" day would show "Average", or in SSRS you can change the Label expression to replace the last value with a text.