I am just wondering whether it is possible to achieve what I need to achieve, but using an ARRAYFORMULA.
I have a simple setup where in column B I show the value, which is present in the last previous filled in row in column A
Here is an example.
So, the questios is: is it possible to achieve the same, but with ARRAYFORMULA(s), so that in case a new row is incerted, one does not need to drag formula to fill in the new row, but the formula would be added automatically. All my attempts ended up with the circular reference problem.
This is tradtionally done with a vlookup of row numbers into a filtered array of the values. It would look like this in row 4 of your sample sheet:
=ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP(ROW(A4:A),FILTER({ROW(A4:A),A4:A},A4:A<>""),2,TRUE))
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I am new to google app sheet formulas.
In the image attached i have highlighted the formula, it works.
The formula i am using is =COUNTIFS(D4:S4,"y",D3:S3,"Personal")
Now i want to propagate this using ARRAYFORMULA for rows 5 and 6.
I tried with the below formula
=ArrayFormula(if(len(A2:A),COUNTIFS(D4:S,"y",D3:S3,"Personal"))
--Update
After adding the formula provided by Matt i am getting count mismatch for one row
--Update #2
As suggested by Eric, i found a space in the Header row
Unfortunately, it's not quite that straightforward to populate a COUNTIFS that reads sideways like that in the down direction. The common way to do this is with a function called MMULT() which does "matrix multiplication" but is very good for adding or counting across a 2d range like that. In your case because it's dates going sideways, i'm going to assume that the sheet keeps growing to the right? All the way across indefinitely?
You might try this in cell B4:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A4:A="",,MMULT(N(OFFSET(D4,,,9^9,9^9)="Y"),TRANSPOSE(N(D3:3="Personal")))))
You can check out this MMULT() demo sheet I made a while back.
I want for every row in my sheet to calculate a score using a formula. So the same formula for each row. I tried this:
=ARRAYFORMULA(min((((C3:C100)/4)+((K3:K100)*4/10)+(M3:M100)+((N3:N100)/2.5)+((O3:O100)/5)+(R3:R100)+(T3:T100)+((P3:P100)/3)+(V3:V100))/23))
But it does calculate at all, for any row. (I am starting from row 3)
Why does it act like this? Any suggestions?
It's always best to provide us a link to your sheet, so we can see what you're trying to accomplish (or at least create a copy without sensitive data and share that).
If you want the same exact formula for each row, you will get the same exact result with your current formula. Also, do you mean to SUM the range values you have provided inside the formula? If so, you need to alter your formula to look like this:
=ARRAYFORMULA(min((((sum(C3:C100)/4)+(sum(K3:K100)*4/10)+sum(M3:M100)+(sum(N3:N100)/2.5)+(sum(O3:O100)/5)+sum(R3:R100)+sum(T3:T100)+(sum(P3:P100)/3)+SUM(V3:V100))/23)))
Please be more specific about exactly what you want the formula to calculate on each row. If it's on row 20, for example, do you still want rows 3-100 to be considered? Or just rows 20-100? WHAT data do you need to be considered on each row's formula, in other words?
Here's a sheet I created to try to understand what you want:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GRdU6NLMWx2xPXDNp21VzYRQRj6cjNbL4RGVUV2x8Wk/edit?usp=sharing
I am using google sheets to make a spread sheet and do some simple math, I figured how to do the summing but the problem is that I have about 180 rows of data and want to avoid, if possible, the need to make a formula for every single pair of data. Here is the simple code that I have:
=SUM(AG4:AG5)
So I am writing this code in this case in AH4 and is always the same relative placement to the values I want to add. I want the sum of the two numbers one column to the left and the current row and a row under that. Is there any way to make it so that the same formula can be used over and over instead of typing each one out. Maybe some way to make the formula look one column to the left take that number and add it to the cell one column to the left and one row down?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
You can use the ARRAYFORMULA function to apply a formula to multiple rows. It does not like some functions, though, and SUM() is one of them. So we need to use a different method to add the numbers. In this case, we just use AG4 + AG5. To apply the formula to all the rows in the spreadsheet we do a little more. Here is the formula, which would be placed in cell AG3 provided that is where the formula should start adding items.
=ARRAYFORMULA( IF( ISBLANK( AG3:AG),, AG2:AG + AG3:AG))
The IF ISBLANK AG3:AG) causes the formula to be applied to every row from row 3 to the last row in the sheet. ISBLANK will return FALSE on any row we want to work on so we provide nothing to teh TRUE portion of the IF statement. Note that I did not put "" in for the TRUE portion as that actually places a value in the row and can cause problems with other formulas. Since we are placing this in cell AG3 the addition will increment adding the row above to the current row.
EDIT from Comments
Placing this in cell AH2 will get you what you want:
=ARRAYFORMULA( IF( ISBLANK( AG2:AG),, IF(iseven( ROW(AG2:AG)),AG2:AG + AG3:AG,)))
Taking it a step farther, placing this in cell AH1 will label the header row for you and keep the formula out of the data rows. This has the advantage of allowing rows to be inserted above row 2.
=ARRAYFORMULA( IF(ROW(AH1:AH) = 1, "Total", IF( ISBLANK( AG1:AG),, IF(iseven( ROW(AG1:AG)),AG1:AG + AG2:AG,))))
The explanation is similar to above, only minor changes were made.
NOTE: The rest of column AH (below the formula) should not have any other manually entered data, so you will have to delete your formulas.
In Google Sheets I want to get the sum of the first 2 columns and display that result in the 3rd column all the way down. Like this:
I'm hoping for a solution that does this in one step. As I have many rows.
Edit: I am aware of this question: Apply formula to the entire column and it appears to only cover part of what I am asking.
Try:
=arrayformula(if(A2:A<>"",ADD(A2:A,B2:B),""))
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))