I've been working on a sheet that helps me track matching numbers. To help me track easily, I want the cells in column B ang G to be highlighted when both value matches.
I tried different ways with conditional formatting. I think it is something doable, but I just could not figure it out after several times. It kept highlight the wrong cells.
The format in Column B and G seems to be a NUMBER.
Your help will really be appreciated. Thank you!
Here is the link to the document in case you want to have a glimpse of it. I added my 3 attempts in the sheet so you can see it. The file is editable.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I0pLi0sKWMHaDXiyCzZjc7sAOYIhp3BMkdr3AAMR3T4/edit?usp=sharing
Try this:
Use custom formula =COUNTIF($B$1:$G$21,B1)>1 while highlighting only columns B and G
Screenshot:
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So, I have a formula graciously shared by someone here that works amazing in highlighting cells in a column that contains letters from K to Z, excluding RR. Here it is below...
=REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"[K-Z]")*(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"RR")=FALSE)
But, I'm trying to accomplish the same thing with an IF formula (not conditional formatting), where if a cell in column E contains a letter from K-Z, it will display the green checkbox, and if not, display the red down arrow. I'm not sure exactly how to exclude RR again in the equation. Here's the formula I'm trying to get to work...
={"OL";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(E5:E="",,if(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z"),"✅","🔻")))}
The formula works except it includes cells containing RR, I guess because R is in there? But I want to exclude cells containing RR.
Here's a Google Sheet that contains the formula I'm currently using.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I left a new sheet ("Erik Help") with a formula in B1 that somewhat follows the form of your original formula there, since that seems to be something you understand. All I did was add another outer IF to rule out instances of "RR" up front:
={"OL";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,IF(A2:A="RR","🔻",IF(REGEXMATCH(A2:A,"[K-Z]"),"✅","🔻"))))}
use:
={"OL"; INDEX(IF(
REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"[K-Z]")*(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"RR")=FALSE),
"✅", "🔻"))}
I'm trying to get an ARRAYFORMULA to subtract the current cell from the previous one,
but it appears that if I write
=ARRAYFORMULA((A3:A)-(A2))
The formula does not increase of one cell as it expands.
here's an example of what I get
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ci4kiNCgjBZK0Ue218IRIk5t8tSmElF5EgbIxb1_Q9w/edit?usp=sharing
it's clear that it keeps referencing A2 (but I'm not using $A$2 in the formula)
if I wouldn't use ARRAYFORMULA I would simply use
=SUM(A3-A2)
Can anyone suggest me a solution?
Your sample spreadsheet is still "View only"; so neither I nor anyone else can directly leave our solutions. However, place the following formula in D1:
=ArrayFormula({"Difference"; IF(A2:A="",,IFERROR(A2:A-OFFSET(A2:A,-1,0)))})
This will create the header (which you can change within the formula itself as you like) and all results.
(Adjusting to the location in your actual spreadsheet, as indicated in your post, this would be =ArrayFormula({"Difference";IF(L7:L="",,IFERROR(L7:L-OFFSET(L7:L,-1,0)))}).)
Couple Comments
You should accept Erik Tyler's answer as he put in more work and helped you present your problem more clearly. However these formulas allow for some more flexibility if you want any values below the rows (which now that I think about it doesn't make a lot of sense based on having a dynamic array flowing down, but conceptually maybe someone will find it useful).
Simple Formula will require one cell below your range to be blank:
=iferror(filter(filter(N(A2:A),A2:A<>"")-N(A1:A),A1:A<>""),"")
Complex Formula will allow values directly below (which I again admit seems nonsensical considering the whole point of this is a dynamic expansion down rows...)
=Filter(filter(filter(N(A2:A),A2:A<>"")-N(A1:A),A1:A<>""),ISNUMBER(filter(filter(N(A2:A),A2:A<>"")-N(A1:A),A1:A<>"")))
I gave a demo on your page.
I need help to make a formula to apply to the entire column (column D) so that if I add/remove a row everything stays with the formula
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14LFutwrMf7gtffL6aTm4PhRNBMlgHIdvGzP90Efzt28/edit?usp=sharing
I have tried adding an array, but I must be doing something wrong, I can't make it work. I have shared an example sheet. Can someone please give me a help.
It should just be
=ArrayFormula(if(A:A="","",hyperlink(A:A&B:B,"SMS")))
I am trying to use conditional formatting to color a column based on the value of the column itself, plus another column. But I am having issues.
If the value in H is "Race Expense" and the K cell is empty, I want the K cell to be colored in red. But as you can see below, it is not working. The results I am getting (the colored cells) are incorrect.
Here's my format condition:
Here's the actual formula (since you can not see all of it above):
=AND(($K667=""),($H667="Race Expense"))
Any ideas what's wrong?
Ok, so I feel like an idiot. Thanks to a comment on my original post the issue is solved.
Since my selected range was K666:K671, I had to modify my formula to use the first row of the range.
I was originally using this formula:
=AND(($K667=""),($H667="Race Expense"))
But by just changing it to this one it solved the issue:
=AND(($K666=""),($H666="Race Expense"))
I use Arrayformula() to make my reports dynamic and easier to edit. For example, if I have a Column A with a list o number o blue balls in a set and a Column B with a list red balls in a set, on the cell C1 I can write =ArrayFormula(add(A1:A,B1:B)) and in the Column C will have the total of balls in each set. It would be exactly the same as writing =A1+B1 in cell C1 and dragging the formula down to the last row. Arrayformula() has some benefits, because it will work if some adds or removes rows from the sheet and also it makes the reports way more organized and easier to edit.
Since I´ve discovered arrayformula(), my life has changed, because of the fact that googleSheets expands the formula to other cells. It does not work every time, but the idea of expanding to other cells seems to be possible some way or another, here is a good example of a problem that was not resolved by arrayformula(), but has the same idea.
Keeping that idea in mind, imagine that on Column A there is a list of First Names and on Column B there is a list of Last names. On Column C I want to join this two string using a simples space. The way to do that would be in the cell C1 write =join(" ",A1,B1) and then drag down this formula. This method method however is prone to error since people can add and remove rows, deleting my formula. I want to use a formula that I can write in one single cell and it expands to other cells. I´ve tried =arrayformula(join(" ",A1:A,B1:B)), but it does not work.
Is that a way to do that using =arrayformula() or other native function?
I know I could write a script or custom formula to do that, but this is not my goal here.
I think this formula should work:
=arrayformula(A1:A&" "&B1:B)
In case you want to use a delimiter, you can do the following to have a clean result even though, A or B is not present in some cases:
ARRAYFORMULA(ifna(ifs(isblank(A1:A),,ISBLANK(B1:B),A1:A),A1:A&" - "&B1:B))