This conditional format command shows duplictes on the Sheet1 perfectly:
Appliy to range A:A
=COUNTIF(A:A,A1)>1
Is it possible make it work with Sheet2 at the same time. I've read that INDIRECT could help but I don't understand how to do that.
I tried this with no luck:
If you want it to check both sheets for duplicates, you can still use almost the same formula, but you have to put the references into an Indirect statement:
=countif(INDIRECT("Sheet1!A:A"),A1)+countif(INDIRECT("Sheet2!A:A"),A1)>1
as mentioned in the documentation
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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.
here is a link to my google sheet for reference: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tUlqB2tsH4xEsxYiMv1CiUIY3hhLGpM-1G8eWOyZPWk/edit?usp=sharing]
What I am trying to do is in the "Clients" sheet there is the column "Orders". Here I want a count of all the times that "Client ID" has been used across all the other pages. Any tips on what formula to use? Thanks
I would use:
={"Orders";ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="","",COUNTIF({Jun!B:B;July!B:B;August!B:B;Sept!B:B}, A2:A)))}
from what i saw you only needed to add the ARRAYFORMULA to your formula, it should end up like this: =ArrayFormula(COUNTIF({Jun!B:B;July!B:B;August!B:B;Sept!B:B},A2)).
But, even after adding it, to me at least, the results didn't change. Could you verify and make sure there's a problem with the results the SUMIFS is giving you?
If you find anything that's broken I'll try and help.
I'm trying to use arrayformula to expand the formula below but it's not working. When I copy-paste manually the formula into each cell it works.
=arrayformula(INDEX($1:$100,ROW(B2:B),match(YEAR(M$1:$1),$1:$1,0)))
What I want to achieve is to convert yearly salaries into monthly salaries based on years.
The spreadsheet can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1veiYh1CMIfFPwBGQk4OwKmCLa7q08TugReVfAXtpIgI/edit#gid=1363287956
Thanks!
Solution:
Since you are looking for a specific column, you can use HLOOKUP as a substitute for INDEX and MATCH:
=ARRAYFORMULA(HLOOKUP(YEAR(M1:AT1),A1:H11,ROW(B2:B11))/12)
This should yield the same result as the previous formula:
I have a sheet that pulls numbers from several different sheets to amalgamate numbers. Each week, a new sheet is added to the source files, all with the same name. I'd like to update the amalgamated sheet by changing one cell instead of many.
When the tab is located in the same Google sheet, this is easily done with INDIRECT.
Right now, the formula in the amalgamated sheet is:
=IMPORTRANGE(M4, "Aug29!$F$2")
That formula is on each line to pull from several different sheets:
=IMPORTRANGE(M5, "Aug29!$F$2")
=IMPORTRANGE(M6, "Aug29!$F$2")
and so on.
Each week, the "Aug29" changes to the new date - "Sep5", "Sep12", etc.
What I'd like to do is use INDIRECT to pull that part of the equation in (from cell Z1) so that I don't have to update each formula.
I was thinking I could use CONCATENATE to create the "Aug29!$F$2" portion of the formula with INDIRECT:
=IMPORTRANGE(M4, CONCATENATE(INDIRECT(Z1), "!$F$2"))
The problem is, the IMPORTRANGE formula requires quotations around the range string, and I can't figure out how to add them.
Weird problem, I'm sure, but wondering if there's anyone with a solution?
Short answer
Use =IMPORTRANGE(M4, CONCATENATE(Z1, "!$F$2")) or =IMPORTRANGE(M4, Z1&"!$F$2")
Explanation
INDIRECT requires a string that represents a cell or range references, like "Z1" but it will increase unnecessarily the complexity of your formula.
If Z1 has the name of the sheet, then just concatenate it by using CONCATENATE, CONCAT or &
UNTESTED. Please try something like:
=IMPORTRANGE(M4,Z$2)
with in Z2 something like:
=Z1&"!$F$2"
In other words, I think your IMPORTRANGE does not like INDIRECT.
In Google spreadsheets, how do I find the sum of two ranges referenced from different spreadsheets
I want to use something like
=(IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet1","A1:A100")+ IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet2","A1:A100"))
and get the sum
Apparently, the above doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated :).
I have found an answer:
Arrayformula is what I was looking for. It basically applies the formula treating the range as a range, instead of as a single element. I still donot totally understand why this works. would be really happy if someone could explain this
I just used
ARRAYFORMULA((IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet1","A1:A100")+IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet2","A1:A100")))
and suddenly everything works as it should.
Shouldn't the + operator be conscious of the input type it is getting and automatically respond by returning the appropriate type? why do I need to explicitly specify that this is an array formula
I ran into a similar issue yesterday. Solution was:
=SUM(IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet1","SheetName!A1:A100")) + SUM(IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet2","SheetName!A1:A100"))
No need to use ARRAYFORMULA()
2 important notes.
You will probably see a #REF! error in your cell with a red color in the corner. You'll need to hover over it and allow access to the spreadsheets that you're referencing.
If any of the original data in the spreadsheet ranges you're referencing in A1:A100 contain errors such as
#NULL!
#DIV/0!
#VALUE!
#REF!
#NAME?
#NUM!
#N/A
then your formula must be modified to include SUMIF() as follows
=SUMIF(IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet1","SheetName!A1:A100"), ">0") + SUMIF(IMPORTRANGE("keyofsheet2","SheetName!A1:A100"), ">0")
This ensures that it's only adding anumbers and not error codes.