I have two pages of spreadsheets in Google Sheets. Sheet1 and Sheet2.
I have a Vlookup function in Sheet2 that returning me the value in sheet1.
I would like to know if there is a way to edit this returned value in sheet2 and this value entered in sheet2 be updated in sheet1.
If I try to do that now, it only changes the vlookup formula.
No, this is simply not possible.
Data can be displayed in many places, or used in many formulas, but if it is "just" a value in a cell, it must have one canonical source.
If this is a serious requirement for your project, consider using a database rather than a spreadsheet. Or research whether or not this sort of dual-direction flow is feasible and advisable via Google Apps Script. Both of those are serious undertakings though, and almost certainly overkill.
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I have a Google Sheet that I'm using as a database for a an app I am building in AppSmith. Really just an interface for people to work with the sheet in a controlled manner.
I'm using the Google Sheet because I'm familiar with layering formulas to make it work the way I want it to work. I have a number of columns that start with an ARRAYFORMULA that gives the name of the column in row 1, blank in blank rows that should be blank, and some programmed information in other rows.
This works great as long as I am working from the spreadsheet or reading/adding rows from the app.
However, when I try to edit the row from the app, the API update will take the "50" that it sees in the column and actually put "50" in the cell, breaking the arrayformula.
Is there any way to prevent API calls from actually editing that column? Or to automatically clear the cell and let the arrayformula expand again?
I found a temporary workaround to push "" for the column(s) I know are arrays, but it seems vulnerable to complications if I add other array columns later, or want to make another form in the app that also updates the sheet.
As a "rule of thumb", avoid having formulas on sheets being used as "databases" (top row used for field names, 2nd row and below used for data). If you really need to use formulas in the spreadsheet instead of doing the calculations on the "APP", add them on a "mirror" sheet.
This is a common recommendation when using ARRAYFORMULAS to do calculations with data comming from Google Forms.
If you think that creating a "mirror" sheet might cause more problems than benefits, if your "APP" is able to limit the number of columns being edited, put the formulas to the right of the last column linked to the app.
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I have a large Google Sheets spreadsheet that has individual sheets for financial statements of activity for multiple years. I want to reference particular columns of those in other sheets, and I've successfully figured out how to do that with an HLOOKUP function. However, because I want to do this for multiple years, I'd like that HLOOKUP function to pick up the name of the sheet to reference from its column header. Right now, I'm hard-coding it like this—you can see the HLOOKUP range refers to cells in the "2021 Overall" sheet. The hard-coded approach works but makes adding a new year tedious. Ideally, the HLOOKUP formula would read the contents of its column header cell to determine which year it is.
As best I can tell, the solution is to use INDIRECT, but I can't figure out any way to build the formulate with INDIRECT and not get an error. For instance, this seemed like it should work. As you can see, I have 2021 in cell D4, and my INDIRECT statement is referencing that and building the rest of the range.
I've also tried using INDIRECT with an explicit CONCATENATE, with no more success.
Any ideas for how to look up that D4 cell and slide it into the HLOOKUP range?
Thank you!
Try to remove the "'"& before D4 and the ' after the Overall.
Your formula should look like this:
=IFERROR(HLOOKUP($A$2,INDIRECT(F4 &" Overall!$A$5:$X$150", Utility!$A10, FALSE)))
With Nikko's nudges in the right direction, I eventually figured out the right format. This allows the formula to work in multiple sheets and to be filled right (for more years) and down (for more classes).
=IFERROR(HLOOKUP($A$2,INDIRECT("'"D$4&" Overall'!$A$5:$X$150"), Utility!$A3, FALSE))
Note that if you try to replicate this, you may need to type the formula out from scratch—I had a problem where pasting it in didn't work. Once I'd retyped it and Google Sheets acknowledged it, it worked from then on in the spreadsheet, even when pasted from sheet to sheet.
I have a Google Form linked to a Google Sheet. It has a number of questions with responses that I need grouped into specific columns. I also need to keep the columns in the order they're in.
I was working with a formula someone helped me with to do one single range:
=ARRAYFORMULA({"Job Responsibilities";IF(A2:A="",,TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(H2:V),,100))))})
However in the instance I am having problems, I need to group together the answers that are in columns W - AK and also BA - BO into one cell.
I tried something like
=ARRAYFORMULA({"Supporting SAP Stream";IF(B2:B="",,TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(W2:AK)TRANSPOSE(BA2:BO),,100))))})
or
=ARRAYFORMULA({"Supporting SAP Stream";IF(B2:B="",,TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(W2:AK, BA2:BO),,100))))})
But that makes an error.
Is there another modification I can make to concatenate and transpose the values in these cells?
Here is a link to a Google Sheet showing most of what I'm referring to. It's from an earlier iteration, so it's not 100% exact with what I said above, but the goal is still the same. In this Sheet, I would like to concatenate what's in Columns U - AG and AU - BF.
Update, based on the data in your sheet:
=ARRAYFORMULA({"Supporting SAP Stream";IF(B2:B="",,TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY({TRANSPOSE(U2:AG);TRANSPOSE(AU2:BG)},,100))))})
Try:
=ARRAYFORMULA({"Supporting SAP Stream";IF(!B2:B="",,TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY({TRANSPOSE(W2:AK); TRANSPOSE(BA2:BO)},,100))))})
I have a huge year of data and I cannot add it in 1 spreadsheet because of the limitation on the number of cells per workbook/spreadsheet so I separated the huge data into multiple files by month (January, February, March etc).
In my master file/spreadsheet I needed to use a formula to lookup some values from the master spreadsheet and the problem is that the tables to look into are now in multiple monthly spreadsheets. What is the best formula to look up values in multiple spreadsheets?
After googling for a while I don't have much options, I don't even know what the formula is for using Vlookup to find values in a separate spreadsheet instead of another tab. I tried importrange and it seem to still use the limit even though it's in a different spreadsheet I get error when trying to use it because the data is too large.
So you can use IMPORTRANGE to get the columns needed for the vlookup.
=VLOOKUP(D42,IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/[sheet_id]","Sheet1!D:ZZ"),1,0)
It's not clear if you added the permission needed to access the other workbook when you use IMPORTRANGE
like this
You can also use IMPORTRANGE in the data parameter QUERY(data, query, [headers])
QUERY is awesome when you know your way around SQL. Google Visualization API Query Language
I have a URL in one cell which is the criterion for the IMPORTRANGE. e.g.:
=IMPORTRANGE(B2,"sheet1!$A$1")
I found a formula to collect it as criterion, but not in array version.
A sample can be found here.
I see you have column B filled with Spreadsheet Ids, and you are trying to execute
=ArrayFormula(IMPORTRANGE(B2:B,"sheet1!$A$1"))
Not every spreadsheet function supports arrays as argument. In particular, importrange does not. You need separate importrange formulas for separate spreadsheets you are importing.
Indeed, importing data from another spreadsheet is not a batch operation; each import has to be authorized by clicking a prompt the first time it's called. Also, it's a very slow operation; you will get a serious performance
hit if trying to import a lot of other spreadsheets.
Generally, if you find yourself doing a lot of importrange, it may be time to rethink the overall data organization.
While you cannot use IMPORTRANGE() in an arrayformula, as detailed in the other answer, you can use it in an array literal. In your case, for the first five cells in your column B that contain spreadsheet URLs:
={
IMPORTRANGE(B2,"sheet1!$A$1");
IMPORTRANGE(B3,"sheet1!$A$1");
IMPORTRANGE(B4,"sheet1!$A$1");
IMPORTRANGE(B5,"sheet1!$A$1");
IMPORTRANGE(B6,"sheet1!$A$1")
}
So you'll have to write IMPORTRANGE() multiple times and you can only use this technique if you know before how many sheets there are to import. But the advantage is that this also works where IMPORTRANGE() returns multiple rows each – in that case, copying the formulas down is no option, as IMPORTRANGE() creates an error in cases where its results would overwrite cell contents further down.