I'm trying to work out a function in a Google Sheets cells to look at a column then search current row and "above" the current row to find a non number value (text).
I have data that in two columns B (item code or category) & C (item description).
I need another column to contain the categories for each item - column D. I'm looking for a formula for this column, ideally an Arrayformula as the data can change, there can be multiple items per category, some might be only 1 item, some might be 100 items per category. The arrayformula in column D will get the category from column B if it is not a number.
B column - categories and item codes, C column - item descriptions, target is D column a copy of the categories from column B.
I've tried this numerous times and usually give up, do it manually but it becomes teadious quickly. Looking forward to any help that might come from this! thanks.
In D2 try
=Arrayformula(if(isnumber(B2:B), vlookup(row(B2:B), filter({row(B2:B) , B2:B}, istext(B2:B)), 2), B2:B))
and see if that works?
Try in D1
={"Category";ArrayFormula(lookup(row(B2:B),row(B2:B)/if(isnumber(B2:B),0,1),B2:B))}
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So I am using a conditional formatting custom formula to highlight a cell if the column it is summing from another spreadsheet has blanks, but I don't know how to do it with changing ranges. Basically what I want to do is use a third column, say column A, to determine the length of the range (of rows) I want to scan with CountBlank, and if it picks up a blank in there to return a "True".
So basically:
Column A Column B Column C Column D
Person 1 5:30AM 3:00PM 9.5
Person 2 5:00AM 8
Person 3 4:30AM 4:00PM 10.5
So ideally, the cell sums the fourth column with a different function (already have that), and it conditionally formats itself if a blank is picked up in Columns B or C, going all the way down to the last row of column A that has a value. Any help here would be appreciated, thank you.
If I understand you correctly, the custom formula for conditional formatting should be:
=or(countifs(A2:A,"<>",B2:B,""),countifs(A2:A,"<>",C2:C,""))
Suppose you had a list of people's names starting in F2 and their total hours starting in G2. Then you could alter the formula to:
=or(countifs(A$2:A,F2,B$2:B,""),countifs(A$2:A,F2,C$2:C,""))
I'm trying to make a spreadsheet to find the best price of a product in Google Sheets. I have the product description on B column, starting from the sixth row and below, the prices are on column E6 and on, (F6, G6, H6,...) Each supplier name is written on the fist row of their Columns. The lowest price is in column C and Column D displays the supplier with that price.
I've tried the min() function, but there's an issue, I need it to bypass 0 values.
On column C, I'm using this code =min($E6:$Z6) and for displaying the supplier I'm using =index($E$1:$Z$1,0,match(min($E6:$Z6),$E6:$Z6,0))
I'll add a screenshot of the problem.
wrap it into simple IF or IFERROR
=IF(MIN($E6:$Z6)=0, , MIN($E6:$Z6))
and the second one:
=IFERROR(INDEX($E$1:$Z$1, 0, MATCH(MIN($E6:$Z6), $E6:$Z6, 0)))
I have a spreadsheet that I want to calculate the average of the first three values in a row...
For example:
Column A Column B Column C Column D
Row 1 7/1/2017 6/1/2017 5/1/2017
Row 2 $934 $392 $214
So my formula is
=average($A$2:$C$2)
This works fine, until I add a new column to the left of Column A to add the newest month's data which now looks like this:
Column A Column B Column C Column D
Row 1 7/1/2017 6/1/2017 5/1/2017
Row 2 $934 $392 $214
The issue is that spreadsheet automatically changes the formula to
=average($B$2:$D$2)
when what I really want is to retain the original formula so it will continue to give the the average of the most recent three months of data.
Here is a link to a spreadsheet so you can see what is happening, sheet one is before added column, and sheet two is after adding column.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XE2zyFGCHUfSf44vNHwXij59I68LJEL_L7cNSf0-uag/edit?usp=sharing
How can I do this? Thanks!
I suggest a sensible place to put such a formula is in ColumnA (having made room for it!) hence:
=average(OFFSET(A2,,1,1,3))
I'm trying to accomplish a lot with little knowledge, but I have a spreedsheet with data that i want to convert into something readable that I can then display on my website.
Anyways, in column A I have a list of dates, column B a list of names, and column c a list of contributions. What I would like to do is first total the amount of contributions in C, for a date range in A.
I would then like to find all the duplicates in Column B(repeat donors), and total their contributions in C.
There is a VBA, that I found on here that would accomplish the second task, but ... I'm using Google Sheets. What I've been doing is sorting the sheet and totalling everything manually.
What I would like to do is first total the amount of contributions in
C, for a date range in A.
Use SUMIF
I would then like to find all the duplicates in Column B(repeat
donors), and total their contributions in C.
Assuming you have 100 records, starting from 1st row for below code.
In cell D1, put =UNIQUE(B1:B10), it will fill D column with unique values of given range (B1:B100).
In cell E1, put =SUMIF(B$1:B$100,D1,C$1:C$100)
Repeat same formula in E column
I have a Googlesheet with Column A= ID like B-124992 or D-133739 and several different ID's as well, Column B= Title description. I want to Merge only the "B-" and "D-" -like ID's with their respective Title description. I'm using ArrayFormula in column C like:
= ArrayFormula(IF(ISNUMBER(FIND({"B-","D-"};'BacklogData'!A2));A2&" - "&B2;""))
The result is merging as expected but the output is distributed in column C (shows all "B-" merge results) and column D ((shows all "D-" merge results).
How can I get the results all in column C?
In C2 try:
=ArrayFormula(if(len(B2:B); if(regexmatch(A2:A; "(B-|D-)"); A2:A&"-"&B2:B;);))
This will reference the colA and output the concatenation of col A and colB if col A starts with either B- or D.
NOTE: you will have to erase all formulas you currently have in col C.
Hope that helps ?
EDIT: not sure if you are referencing another sheet, but in that case you will have to add in the sheet name, like you did in the example you gave.
I don't think you need an array formula for this - all you need is an OR condition in a standard formula:
=IF(OR(LEFT(A2,2)="B-",LEFT(A2,2)="D-"),A2&" - "&B2,"")
and copy as far down column C as you need. Since this is not an array, it will only return one result per cell which is what you want.