I'm having trouble with HLOOKUP in Google Sheets. I'm trying to determine whether an inputted word is unique in a row and for this reason my formula searches combined ranges [that exclude itself] within an HLOOKUP. This is the formula I'm using [in cell E4]:
=HLOOKUP(E2, {B2:D3;F2:M3}, 2, false)
Doubtless, there's something I'm doing wrong, because I keep getting this error:
"HLOOKUP evaluates to an out-of-bounds range"
What I want to happen is that it will find a match for "ice" in the range to the left [B2:D3] and the range to the right [F2:M3]...
Confusingly, the equivalent formula works for VLOOKUP, but not HLOOKUP. I've found it also works in HLOOKUP if I search for a single range [ie B2:D3] and not a combined range.
So I'm a bit stuck. The combined range search works fine in VLOOKUP, but perhaps I need to write it differently for HLOOKUP?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
instead of this:
=HLOOKUP(E2, {B2:D3; F2:M3}, 2, 0)
try this:
=HLOOKUP(E2, {B2:D3, F2:M3}, 2, 0)
For identifying duplicates conditional formatting might suit you. Select all relevant columns : Format > Conditional formatting..., Format cells if... Custom formula is and:
=countif(1:1,A1)>1
with formatting of your choice.
This should format all instances of any value repeated in its row.
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Hello I would like to check for duplicate rows, not just a cell, in google sheets, i would like to apply this formula in conditional formatting so it would highlight the cell
Here is a sample of what i want to catch
I would like to catch a duplicate row,group,or pair of cells in exact order. Can anybody help me with the formula?
I tried searching and there seems to be no article about it yet, I also tried using countif on both rows and multiply them, but that does not solve it being a pair.
Let's say you have the following data:
https://ibb.co/sFhjN34
First, range select A1:B1001.
Then, paste the following formula in the custom formula bar.
=AND(A1<>"",COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),index(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),ROW($A1),))>1)
Explaination:
ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B)
This is creating a virtual array which concat two columns A & B.
E.g. juice crackers -> juicecrackers
index(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),ROW($A1),)
Since conditional formating will loop through all rows given the starting range you specify earlier (A1:B1001), this part is trying to loop through ROW($A_) such that index(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),ROW($A_),) will return the combined word.
COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),index(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B),ROW($A1),))>1)
Count every combined word that it specified in this array ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B)
If it countup more than 1, it means duplicated.
A1<>"" For those blank cells, we ignore it.
Combine the two conditions. AND(A1<>"",COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA($A:$A&$B:$B) ....)
It's not quite as perfect as you'd like, but I think this is a start:
=AND($A1=$A2,$B1=$B2)
This doesn't highlight the last row of any matches it finds, but it might be serviceable for what you want (ex. if Row 1 through Row 3 match, it will only highlight Row 1 and Row 2).
Just change the columns to match the two you're working with, and then if you want it to highlight the entire row, change the Apply to range to A1:Z or however many columns you have.
As the title says, I'm trying to highlight partial duplicates for 1 column in Google Sheets using conditional formatting.
Here's what I have so far:
=if(C1<>"",Countif(C$1:C,left(C1,5)& "*") > 1)
This works, but the issue is the "left" makes it so the code only highlight cells that are duplicates from the start.
So for instance, the formula won't highlight "1exampletest" and "2exampletest" because the first 5 characters are not the same...which is something I want the formula to be able to highlight.
Does anyone know the right formula for detecting partial duplicates regardless of when the duplicate is occurring?
there are several ways how to do it which may or may not work for you (because you did not provide a geniue sample)
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or with REGEXMATCH like: =REGEXMATCH(A1, "example")
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=OR(IF(C1<>"",COUNTIF(C$1:C,LEFT(C1,5)&"*")>1),IF(C1<>"",COUNTIF(C$1:C,"*"&RIGHT(C1,5))>1))
I cannot seem to make my conditional formatting work with a custom formula. The long and short of it is that the formatting is based on some VLOOKUPs. I've tested the formula in a normal cell and it outputs 1 as expected.
=IF(REGEXMATCH(VLOOKUP(C5,CL!C2:H99,5,FALSE), VLOOKUP(B5,CL!J3:K110,2,FALSE)), 1, 0)
I'm basically testing to see whether a certain tag is included in a cell that contains a comma separated list of tags.
The documentation seems to suggest that I need to enter the formula into the box with quotation marks around it (""). I've tried all variations I believe.
I've also tried removing the IF statement, as REGEXMATCH outputs true or false.
Any clue why this isn't working?
when attempting conditional formatting to reference another sheet you need to wrap it into INDIRECT - that's where Google documentation failed. try:
=IF(REGEXMATCH(VLOOKUP(C5, INDIRECT("CL!C2:H99"), 5, 0),
VLOOKUP(B5, INDIRECT("CL!J3:K110"), 2, 0)), 1)
I wish to conditionally format cells within a range based on another range...
Eg: format D7:I7 if a value is found in D19:I19.
I've looked but couldn't find a way...
Tried both HLOOKUP& MATCH:
=HLOOKUP(D7,D$24:I$24,,FALSE)
=MATCH(D$7,D$24:I$24,0)`
I have also tried a simple =D$19:I$19 - this one returns only partial formatting on the ranges selected - E9, G11, H13....
Ideas??
Applies to range: D7:I7
Custom formula is: =countif($D19:$I19,$D$7)>0
I have a range of cells in one column, some contain text and some are blank cells. I want to search the range for the first occurrence of a word. I know that it's possible to combine Index and Match functions to find exact text within a range of cells. But I need to search for partial matches. I've tried mixing using the Search function, but it doesn't seem to accept a range. How can I search a range for the first partial text match? I only want to use formulas, not script.
The search function can be applied to a range using arrayformula wrapper:
=arrayformula(search("str", C2:F9))
This returns a bunch of #value! errors where no match is found, or the position of substring when it's found. A more readable output is produced with
=arrayformula(if(iserror(search("str", C2:F9)), , C2:F9))
This leaves non-matches blank, and returns the actual cell content where there is a match. Or you could put row(C2:F9) at the end to get the row numbers, etc.
We can simply use vlookup or match formula to find a string from a specific range
Vlookup example:
=VLOOKUP(B2, $B$2:$B, 1, FALSE)
Match example:
=MATCH("Sunday",A2:A9,0)
=MATCH(DATE(2012,1,1),A2:F2)