Excel 2007
I have a row of cells with variation of numbers and letters (which all mean something.. not random.)
It's basically a timesheet. If they take a sick day they put in S, if they take a partial sick day they put in PS. The problem is they also put in the hours they did work too. They put it in this format: (number)/PS.
Now if it were just letters I could just do =countif(range,"S") to keep track of how many s / ps cells there are. How would I keep track if they are PS where it also has a number separated by a slash then PS.... I also still need to be able to use that number to add to a total. Is it even possible or will I have to format things different to be able to keep track of all this stuff.
Assuming this is something like what your data looks like:
A B C D E
1 1 2 S 4/PS 8
...then you could do this:
1- add a column that just totals the "S" entries with a COUNTIF function.
2- add a hidden row beneath each real data row that will copy the numerical part of the PS entries only with this function in each column:
=IF(RIGHT(B1,2)="PS",IF(ISERROR(LEFT(B1,LEN(B1)-SEARCH("/",B1)-1)),"",INT(LEFT(B1,LEN(B1)-SEARCH("/",B1)-1))),"")
3- add another column to the right that just totals the "PS" entries by summing the hidden row from step 2.
3- add another column that totals everything by just summing the data row. that will ignore the text entries automagically.
4- have a grand total column that adds those three columns up
If you don't want to see the "S" and "PS" total columns, you can of course just hide them.
So in the end, the sheet would look like this:
A B C D E F G H I J
1 1 2 S 4/PS 8 1 4 11 16
2 4 <--- hidden row
HTH...
My quick take on this is:
pass the cell value into a CSTR function, so no matter what is entered you will be working with a string.
parse the information. Look for S, PS, or any other code you deem to be valid. Use Left or Right functions if you need to look at partial string.
check for number by testing the ascii value, or trying a CINT function, which will only work if the string can be converted to integer.
If you can show a sample of your cells with variation of numbers and letters I can give you more help. Hope this works out.
-- Mike
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Im new in VBA and want to know how can i format my table in such a way that each name in Column one do only have 1 row in between.
Some of them do have more than 1 row in between and some of them doesn't have. I just need to format then in such a way where every name on column A has 1 blank row in between. Any help would be appreciated!
Please note that i have thousands of data so manual will not work.
also i tried doing the filtering and convert them into single block. the problem with single block is that my column c do have more than 1 information which is connected to column a, .
here is an example.enter image description here
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($N15),3)=0),
--(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6>=
LARGE(N15:BL15+O15:BM15/10^3+COLUMN(N15:BL15)/10^6,6))
)/6
You can try this not so elegant solution:
=SUMPRODUCT(INDEX(N15:BK15,MATCH(LARGE((N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15,AF15,AI15,AL15,AO15,AR15,AU15,AX15,BA15,BD15,BG15,BJ15),{1,2,3,4,5,6}),N15:BK15,0)+1))/6
Entered as array formula by Ctr+Shift+Enter in Cell L15:M15 (2 cells) which should look like this:
{=SUMPRODUCT(INDEX(N15:BK15,MATCH(LARGE((N15,Q15,T15,W15,Z15,AC15,AF15,AI15,AL15,AO15,AR15,AU15,AX15,BA15,BD15,BG15,BJ15),{1,2,3,4,5,6}),N15:BK15,0)+1))/6}
with added braces.
The number 6 is the equates to the number of top scores you want returned.
Now, why 2 cells (L15:M15). I cannot make SUMPRODUCT evaluate the resulting array from the INDEX so we have to enter it at 2 cells. I don't think that would be a problem since in your screen shot, Column M is not used.
Note: If the range evaluated have less than 6 items, it will error out. Also good point by user3964075. It may or may not be able to deal with ties.
I am trying to find the average for the last 3 instances only. I am using the AVERAGEIF statement and it will calculate the average for the entire range but I need it to only calculate for that last 3 instances it finds (or less if there is less than 3 available). I need the entire column for G and H to have the average for the last 3 games that the Team played.
This is what I have:
=AVERAGEIF(B3:C17,B17,D3:E17)
You can do this with array formulas (They have to be entered using the keys Ctrl+Shift+Enter)...
Basic steps are:
Find the row (including and above current) that is the third highest row number containing the team name (or use row 1 otherwise)
Use the INDIRECT ranges in your AVERAGEIF from B-that_row to C-current_row and D_that_row to E-current_row
So in cell F17 you would have the formula
{=AVERAGEIF(INDIRECT("B"&LARGE(IF(--($B$3:B17=B17)+($C$3:C17=B17),ROW($B$3:B17),1),3)&":"&CELL("address",C17)),B17,INDIRECT("D"&LARGE(IF(--($B$3:B17=B17)+($C$3:C17=B17),ROW($B$3:B17),1),3)&":"&CELL("address",E17)))}
We repeat some of the logic, because we have two ranges (criteria range and average range).
IF(--($B$3:B17=B17)+($C$3:C17=B17),ROW($B$3:B17),1) means that if column B or (using +) column C has the value of in B17, give me the row number, otherwise 1 (our <3 case... we could make this 3, the first row of team names)
LARGE(...,3) will give us the third highest of this array --> the third highest row number having our team name
INDIRECT("B"&...&":"&CELL("address",C17)) is going to give us the range using our third highest row number to the current row, columns B and C
then we do exactly the same thing as you were doing in AVERAGEIF but using this INDIRECT range and the equivalent for columns D and E
Fun question! Good luck. And remember to use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter it!
EDIT The above was giving an #NUM! error for the first two rows - that was because the LARGE function was trying to get the third largest in an array of 2! Also noticed that there were some cases where the column letter needed to be absolute (i.e. $) for copying to the Away column. So the updated formula:
{=AVERAGEIF(INDIRECT("B"&LARGE(IF(--($B$3:$B17=B17)+($C$3:$C17=B17),ROW($B$3:$B17),1),MIN(3,ROW()-2))&":"&CELL("address",$C17)),B17,INDIRECT("D"&LARGE(IF(--($B$3:$B17=B17)+($C$3:$C17=B17),ROW($B$3:$B17),1),MIN(3,ROW()-2))&":"&CELL("address",$E17)))}
Replaced the 3 with MIN(3,ROW()-2) so that we get 3 if there are, but 1 or 2 if we are in one of the first two data rows
OK I posted this prematurely and attempted to delete it when I realised it wouldn't work. It should work now.... providing you add another condition which is the game dates in column A. Remember that this is an array formula so hit ctrl+shift+enter. Dates in column A; teams in column B; stats in column D. This formula can reside somewhere permanent on the sheet so you can enter the team name (shown as F13 here) to get the three most recent stats.
=AVERAGE(VLOOKUP(LARGE(IF(B3:B24=F13,A3:A24),1),A3:D24,4),VLOOKUP(LARGE(IF(B3:B24=F13,A3:A24),2),A3:D24,4),VLOOKUP(LARGE(IF(B3:B24=F13,A3:A24),3),A3:D24,4))
Given
O 1 2 3 A
A 4 5 6 B
B 7 8 9 D
O 3
C 15
T 18
I'm looking for VBA code to validate that when column A contains a value that the remaining columns also contain values and when it doesn't contain a value, that columns 2 & 5 also contain values but 3 & 4 don't.
I've simplified the example, in a real sheet there will be many more columns and rows to check.
I've considered COUNTIF and INDEX/MATCH and array forumlas but from my understanding these all work on single columns at a time.
I want to do something like WHEN A1:An<>"" THEN COUNTBLANK(B:E) ELSE COUNTA (C:D)
Is the best way to use autofilter using blanks in A and then countblank and then a second autofilter for values in A.
Thanks
You can do it with a couple of nested IF formulae as follows:
=IF(A1<>"",
"A not empty, "&IF(COUNTBLANK(B1:E1)=0,
"B:E not blank",
"B:E have blanks"),
"A blank, "&IF(AND(COUNTBLANK(B1)+COUNTBLANK(E1)=0,
COUNTBLANK(C1)+COUNTBLANK(D1)=2),
"Columns 2&5 have values and Columns 3&4 don't",
"but condition not met"))
The reason for going down the VBA route is that I want a generic reusable function as opposed to a formula I copy between cells and sheets changing the columns etc along the way ending up with a lot of duplicate code.
So something that takes a column to test and a value to test it with. Third parameter would be a range of columns to validate, and the fourth parameter the validation.
I don't want any solution to have the columns hard coded and I don't want intermediate totals at the end of rows. This is fairly easily achieved in Excel itself...
The reason for trying to use countblank is that I can apply it to a range.
After a lot of searching I discovered this (the columns don't match the original example)
=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A19<>"")*(B2:D19=""))
=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A19="")*(D2:D19=""))
=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A19="")*(B2:C19<>""))
Nice huh? I just need to convert it into VBA now.
Thanks
I Have 6 columns where I have up to 320 values. I say up to because the number of values differ in each column and the values also differ in the columns.
Like this:
Column A has the following values, one in each cell: 1,2,3,4,6,8,9
Column B has the following values, one in each cell: 1,3,4,6,7,8,10
etc.
I would like to know what numbers that differ between the columns, so I would like to know that 2 is missing in the B column and that 9 is missing from the A column.
Optimal would be if it were possible to have one line for each number and when there is missing I just get a blank cell on that line in that specific column.
Keep in mind that there are 6 columns.
Is this possible? Is there a workaround?
I would prefer to do this in Excel but I can use other solutions as well as long as it solves my problem.
If I understand your question correctly the following might help. (I'm assuming no header row here)
In column G put the numbers 1 to 320, e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6,...320 - so this takes up 320 rows.
In cell H1 put the following:
=VLOOKUP($G1,A:A,1,0)
Drag the above formulae across 6 columns - so H1 to M1 and then select the 6 cells (H1:M1) and drag them down to row 320.
In the missing numbers cells you will get a "#N/A" display so you could replace the above vlookup and use an if condition if you want. Something like:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP($G1,A:A,1,0)),"",VLOOKUP($G1,A:A,1,0))
Hope this helps.