Why do neither of the below work in conditional format formula's?
=OFFSET(INDIRECT("R"&ROW()),0,1)<>""
=OFFSET(INDIRECT("R"&ROW()&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE),0,1)<>""
EDIT: We just had an 1.5 hour power outage. Right as it started I realized I'd misspoken.
The 2nd one kind of works for me, but it only works with numbers. If I change it to the below it works for all cases:
=OFFSET(INDIRECT("R"&ROW()&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE),0,1)<>""
You've got just a greater than sign - ">", which won't work as expected with numbers.
The first one doesn't work, and that's because you are specifying the whole row.
Sorry for the confusion.
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I have tried looking for answers online, but I am lacking the right nomenclature to find any answers matching my question.
The DB I am working with is an inconsistent mess. I am currently trying to import a number of maintenance codes which I have to link to a pre-existing Excel table. For this reason, the maintenance code I import have to be very universal.
The table is designed to work with 2-3 digit number (time lengths), followed by a time unit.
For example, SERV-01W and SERV-03M .
As these used to be added to the DB by hand, a large number of older maintenance codes are actually written with 1 digit numbers.
For example, SERV-1W and SERV-3M.
I would like to replace the old codes by the new codes. In other words, I want to add a leading 0 if only one digit is used in the code.
REPLACE(T.Code,'-[0-9][DWM]','-0[0-9][DWM]') unfortunately does not work, most likely because I am using wildcards in the result string.
What would be a good way of handling this issue?
Thank you in advance.
Assuming I understand your requirement this should get you what you are after:
WITH VTE AS(
SELECT *
FROM (VALUES('SERV-03M'),
('SERV-01W'),
('SERV-1Q'),
('SERV-4X')) V(Example))
SELECT Example,
ISNULL(STUFF(Example, NULLIF(PATINDEX('%-[0-9][A-z]%',Example),0)+1,0,'0'),Example) AS NewExample
FROM VTE;
Instead of trying to replace the pattern, I used PATINDEX to find the pattern and then inject the extra '0' character. If the pattern wasn't found, so 0 was returned by PATINDEX, I forced the expression to return NULL and then wrapped the entire thing with a further ISNULL, so that the original value was returned.
I find a simple CASE expression to be a simple way to express the logic:
SELECT (CASE WHEN code LIKE '%-[0-9][0-9]%'
THEN code
ELSE REPLACE(code, '-', '-0')
END)
That is, if the code has two digits, then do nothing. Otherwise, add a zero. The code should be quite clear on what it is doing.
This is not generalizable (it doesn't add two zeros for instance), but it does do exactly what you are asking for.
So I feel like this is a pretty simple question, but I cannot for the life of my find the answer, here or elsewhere.
I'm trying to autopopulate a column with custom text. I suppose it would be the row adjacent.
Thought vlookup was the solution, but I'm rusty.
Basically it's financial, if the Description contains, say, "Amazon" or "Subway" I'd like to populate the adjacent cell with "Amazon" or "Online Shopping" or "Subway" or Fast food.
I'm using numbers but assume that excel advice would apply for such a simple (seemingly) task.
Make sense?
Also, hope I formatted the image correctly.
Ok thanks!
Just looking at the sample data I can see a pattern that emerges from these transactions. However, My first thought would be to jump to VBA for Excel but I don't believe that is available for Mac OS.
Vlookup will only work with the Range_Lookup set to TRUE which means it will try to find the closest match. This might lead to incorrect matches returned or problems with the requirement for sorting your table array that is being queried.
The only other thing that came to mind which would work for a single query value such as "Amazon" OR "Subway" would be to use a nested formula that checks if that substring is found in the Description column for each cell. This would be something like:
=IF(FIND("Amazon",D1)>0,"Amazon","")
The problem with this is that it only checks for one value and it does not have an error handling mechanism so each string that is checked without the word "Amazon" in it will return a #Value error in Excel.
I've come across a bit of code that is used to validate a number inputted.
It uses a percentage sign but is nothing to do with any LIKE or varchar functions - it is doing some sort of calculation but I cannot figure it out.
Essentially it looks like this: 1 % 11
If the second number is bigger than the first it will always bring back the first, but if the second is less than the first it brings back strange results.
Does anyone know what this function is doing?
It is modulo operator (division remainder). See MSDN for details.
I am trying to run an IF statement in Google Spreadsheet that will, if "Yes" SUM a series of values.
=IF(G3="Yes",=SUM(C3*D3)+(E3*D3))
This works (if I ignore the IF) and just do =SUM(C3*D3)+(E3*D3), so I know my math is correct.
I have read a few different posts that are asking similar questions, but many have "guesses" and are offering different structured formulas, so I'm not really even sure what the proper structure is any more.
Basically, for the nerdy portion of you, the spreadsheet does the following:
If the "killed" column is Yes, I need to calculate the XP of the monsters killed.
Base XP (C3) times Qty (D3), plus Bonus XP (E3) times Qty (D3) and them SUM the value.
The equal sign (=) in front of SUM should not be there. If your formula works I guess Google Docs just ignores it. Also, the function SUM() is useful to add the values from a range of cells from the same row or column when you don't know in advance how many cells you will add (or there are more than 2 cells and you use SUM() because it's less to write).
If I understood your request, the formula you need is:
=IF(G3="Yes",C3*D3+E3*D3)
Right now the SUM function is only wrapping C3*D3 then you are adding (E3*D3). This is the same as (C3*D3)+(E3*D3) not using the SUM function. Order of operations tells us there is no need for the parentheses so you could write C3*D3+E3*D3.
The IF function has the following parameters:
IF(EVALUATION,IF TRUE,IF FALSE)
So your final equation would be:
=IF(G3="YES",C3*D3+E3*D3,"")
I always add the FALSE return to be blank so that if I need to change it later I can do so.
I don't have much experience so I apologize in advance for a potentially dumb question. I did not create these tables nor the queries that have been used in the past. With that said --
For the past several months I have been using a date conversion query that was given to me to update columns from an integer to a date. It used to work just fine and I swear everything is the same for my latest data extractions, but at some point the dates started getting wonky. For example, a typical date column might look like:
58222
58158
59076
58103
And the conversion query looks something like this:
IIf([D_posting]<>0,[D_posting]-18261,0)
And returns the above dates as:
05/27/2059
03/24/2059
09/27/2061
01/28/2059
Which obviously is wrong. The situation kind of reminds me of how I remember we generated random numbers in C++ (which was a long time ago), but for the life of me I can't figure out how to reverse engineer the correct subtraction factor without a reference point.
I also tried using the CDate() function instead, and it resulted in a bunch of future dates also, leading me to wonder if there's something else wrong. I work for a small physicians group so it might be something in the Electronic Health Records software, but I'd like suggestion on what I should check to make sure it's nothing that I've done.
You could create a query that uses the 'cdate' function (see below) to return the date. You can modify the code so that it subtracts the offset (maybe 18261?)
In the immediate window of VBA you can tinker with the following:
The 'cdate' will take a number and convert it to a date:
?cdate(41925)
10/13/2014
The 'cdbl' will take a date and convert to a number.
?CDbl(Date())
41926