I've setup a formula that combines numbers from multiple worksheets and then compares it against another number from worksheet.
I am using the INDIRECT function to reference the sheets as well as COLUMN and ROW to adjust the numbers to the corresponding coordinates when I drag it across.
However, some of the figures don't always exist in the worksheets so a #VALUE error is returned. How Can I change it so a blank cell is shown if this happens?
My Current formula: =INDIRECT("'"&$C$11&"'!R"&ROW(E29)&"C"&COLUMN(E29),FALSE)-SUM(INDIRECT("'"&$C$11&"'!R"&ROW(C29)&"C"&COLUMN(C29),FALSE),INDIRECT("'"&$C$13&"'!R"&ROW(E29)&"C"&COLUMN(E29),FALSE))
Use =IFERROR(<your original formula>, "") which will replace any error with "" but passes any other result through.
But do bear in mind the degradation in spreadsheet stability: INDIRECT makes spreadsheets brittle enough on its own: your hiding any error output could be dangerous.
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Anyone,
I've chatted with and called excel customer service with no luck. I used the formula builder (please see attached screenshot) to make sure each element of the formula is correct and returns the value for the criteria I'm trying to reference.
Everything is accurate, but it returns a value of 0. When I do the same thing in the actual sheet the data is stored in (and click a criteria cell within the criteria range) it returns the accurate value?! I'm not sure why it won't work on the other sheet. The values I am using to select are dynamic and change with a drop down. I have another, advanced, workbook (I did not create) that does the same thing and completes an even more complicated formula, but actually works so I'm not sure why this is returning a 0 value.
Photos and code/syntax: Dynamic Selection, Example 2 of it working, Example 1 of it working, Formula Builder, CountIFs, Advanced Spreadsheet working, VLOOKUP
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q,'GFEBS Pull'!G:G,FMCOP!$C$20,'GFEBS Pull'!H:H,FMCOP!B23)
or:
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q,'GFEBS Pull'!G:G,'FMCOP'!$C$20,'GFEBS Pull'!H:H,'FMCOP'!B23)
When I type ' around FMCOP sheet name, they disappear? I've also tried to lock the columns on the 'GFEBS Pull' sheet with no luck. Cell B23 is not locked because I'm going to copy the formula down to reference other cells. Any help is appreciated!
In this screenshot you can clearly see that both FMCOP!C20 ansd FMCOP!B23 have prefacing spaces; e.g. " HHC".
Since " HHC" will never match "HHC", fix the data returned from 'the lower table in the same screenshot'.
A Text-to-Columns, Fixed Width, Finish should do this. You could adjust the original formula like,
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q, 'GFEBS Pull'!G:G, TRIM(FMCOP!$C$20), 'GFEBS Pull'!H:H, TRIM(FMCOP!B23))
I would caution against the latter 'bandaid' fix. Fix the original data; do not apply bandaids on-the-fly.
I'm trying to apply a formula through VBA for a particular range. This is the code in my VBA editor:
Sheets("WBR45").Range("AE105").Formula = "=PERCENTILE.INC(TP!$A$3:$A$30:$B$3:$B$30:$C$3:$C$30:$E$3:$E$30,50%)*24"
And the below formula gets updated in the destination cell when this is run:
=PERCENTILE.INC(TP!$A$3:$A$30:$B$3:$B$30:$C$3:$C$30:$E$3:$E$30,50%)*24
But I get an error in the destination cell as #VALUE!.
And when I click on "Show Calculation steps", only this part of the formula is underlined :
TP!$A$3:$A$30:$B$3:$B$30
I have no idea what is wrong with this simple formula. Can someone please take a look
Honestly I have no clue about what you're doing with this, but this may fix it:
"=PERCENTILE.INC(TP!$A$3:$A$30:TP!$B$3:$B$30:TP!$C$3:$C$30:TP!$E$3:$E$30,50%)*24"
You appear to have three errors in your formula:
You are using : to separate ranges instead of ,
You are not specifying which sheet the second, third and fourth ranges refer to, therefore it is defaulting to the sheet on which the formula occurs (i.e. sheet "WBR45")
Multiple ranges will need to be enclosed within brackets (...) in order to be passed as a single range.
If you are trying to have your function operate on the range A3:C30 together with the range E3:E30 (i.e. A3:E30 but ignoring column D), with those ranges being on the "TP" worksheet, I believe that you need to change your formula to
Sheets("WBR45").Range("AE105").Formula = "=PERCENTILE.INC((TP!$A$3:$A$30,TP!$B$3:$B$30,TP!$C$3:$C$30,TP!$E$3:$E$30),50%)*24"
or, slightly simplified
Sheets("WBR45").Range("AE105").Formula = "=PERCENTILE.INC((TP!$A$3:$C$30,TP!$E$3:$E$30),50%)*24"
I have a SAP Report embedded in a worksheet, it is refreshed via a macro using variables defined in another worksheet. That all works fine, but i am having trouble selecting the data the report generates.
The headings of the report are in and always will fall in this range ("A17:K17"), but the results rows will vary making the total range I want to capture anywhere from ("A17:K18") to (A17:K1000").
The solutions I've already tried didn't work i think because there is almost no consistency in the result data, it's a mixture of text and numbers with empty cells all over the place, in both the rows and columns. Including the occasional completely empty row. This means the methods I have tried before reach a point where it thinks it's reached the end of the populated rows - but it hasn't.
The only factor that remains the same throughout the report is that the cells in the range I want to capture are all filled with a color as default and anything outside the range is unfilled.
To me the simplest solution would be to use VBA to select all the cells beneath and including the headers on ("A17:K17") where the color index is not 0 (blank?) regardless of their contents as I don't mind capturing empty cells. Except I don't know how to do this.
At this point I'd just like to select this range I haven't decided if I'm going to copy it into a new workbook or into an email yet, but that I can do. I've just hit a dead end selecting it.
Quite unsure exactly what it is you require but here's a solution. It's worth noting that both the ColorIndex and Color properties are not necessarily zero with no fill, so if you just change blankCell to a cell with the fill which you define to be blank you'll be good to go.
Sub test()
Set blankCell = Range("A1") ' change this to a cell that you define to be blank
blankIndex = blankCell.Interior.Color
Set cellsDesired = Range("A17:K17")
For Each cell In Range("A17:K1000")
If cell.Interior.Color <> blankIndex Then
Set cellsDesired = Application.Union(cellsDesired, Range(cell.Address))
End If
Next cell
cellsDesired.Select
End Sub
I wish to create a dynamic Print_Area in Excel 2010 which will consist of two cell ranges.
For example the first cell range is A1:J50 and the second range is A100:J150. These should print out on two pages, ignoring the cells that come in between these two ranges.
The four cells shown in the above example ranges should be dynamic, and not hard coded as simple Print_Area ranges. Therefore in my worksheet I used cells AA1, AB1, AC1 and AD1 to store values "A1", "J50", "A100" and "J150" respectively.
(The cells AA1, AB1, AC1 and AD1 actually use formulas to determine what cell address will be used, but for this question lets just assume the values are set as above).
I then used the Name Manager and entered the following formula under Print_Area:
=INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AA$1):INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AB$1);INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AC$1):INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AD$1)
The result of this formula is exactly what I need, and it actually works the first time I print the ranges. However once I did that, Excel automatically substitutes the formula with the actual cell range that was calculated. So when I check the Print_Area in the Name Manager after printing once, it contains something like:
=Sheet1!$A$1:$J$50,Sheet1!$A$100:$J$150
Is there a way to prevent the Print_Area from converting my formula to calculated values, and instead using the formula every time I print? I would like to not use macros if at all possible (if not, I'll try macros too)
I tested this and it seemed to work.
Create a new name called Test and set its value to (Note that I used a comma rather than the semicolon you had. I have US language set)
=INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AA$1):INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AA$2),INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AA$3):INDIRECT(Sheet1!$AA$4)
Set your Print_Area name to
=TEST
Good luck!
EDIT
The above works for me, but it appears unnecessary. I just tried to replicate the problem, and was unable. When I have the Print_Area set to the formula with INDIRECT it does not replace after printing.
See this linked file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgm0iv19u6igdm5/Book1.xlsx
I'm building a macro in Excelto run rules against a set of data and output whether each row passes or fails the rules. I want to be able to add, remove, or alter the rules without altering the macro. As such I have a DATA worksheet and a RULES worksheet and the macro generates the OUTPUT worksheet and then populates it.
RULES is set up so that each different rule is enumerated on a different row. For this to work I need to be able to enter the actual VBA code relevant to the rule in on RULES, then I need to have the macro look at that column on RULES and execute the code in the cell.
Simplified example of my setup-
DATA has : ID, Dividend1, Dividend2, Divisor. There are n rows on DATA.
An example of a row on DATA might be ID="123", Dividend1=5, Dividend2=7, Divisor=35.
RULES has : Name, Formula, Threshold. For simplicity's sake there is only .
Let's set the as Name="Example", Formula=[see below], Threshold="0.15" (Threshold is used for conditional formatting in the macro, in this example it is unused.)
I'm going to use pseudocode for Formula just to eliminate the need to explain some of the irrelevant particulars of my macro so far. RULES.Formula should contain a line of VBA code that carries out-
If CurrentDATARow.Dividend1 = Empty Then
CurrentDATARow.Dividend2 / CurrentDATARow.Divisor
Else
CurrentDATARow.Dividend1 / CurrentDATARow.Divisor
End If
So, all of this explanation just to give context to this question: What can I do in the VBA of the macro to make it read the contents of RULES.Formula and make it execute that code inline with the rest of the macro?
If you have (say)
IF({dividend1}="",{dividend2}/{divisor},{dividend1}/{divisor})
stored in a "rule" cell (note do not include the "="), you can use Replace() to replace the placeholders with the relevant cell addresses for each cell in the row you're checking.
Then use something like
Dim val
val=Sheet1.Evaluate(yourformulastring) 'evaluate vs. specific worksheet
If Not IsError(val) Then
'check against thresholds etc
End If
If the evaluation results in an error you can test with IsError(val) as shown, otherwise it will return the result of the formula, which you can test against your "threshold" value cell. If you set background colors on your threshold cells you can color each row according to which threshold was exceeded.
NOTE without a worksheet qualifier, Evaluate will calculate the formula based on the ActiveSheet, so make sure the right sheet is active when this runs if you don't use the qualifier.
you could store your Tests/Rules as Excel worksheet formulas in Named ranges. Then you just call them from the cells.
see Ozgrid: Named Formulas
If you give us some example data and the type of calculations or rules I can give you a couple of examples.