It should be simple, but it's not working. It seems like the same question as Google Spreadsheet, Count IF contains a string but it still doesn't work. And the semicolon mentioned in the responses of that question just gets eaten, so I'm guessing that's an old format.
Basically I have a column of years (it's not designated as a date column) and I want to return total decade counts. I put:
=COUNTIF(A1:A100, "200?")
I thought that would return a count value for everything from 2000-2009, but it just returns zero. If I remove the wildcard and make it one specific year, I do get a count for that year, so it's the wildcard that's the problem. I've tried "?" and "*" and neither work. What am I doing wrong here? Everything I've read says, including the Google COUNTIF documentation says this should work.
Screenshot of my spreadsheet formula
What am I doing wrong here?
You are misreading the documentation.
The documentation as referenced mentions wildcards only in the context If range contains text to check against,.
Number formats can however be changed to Text "on the fly" (ie within a formula), such as suggested by #TheMaster, or a different approach taken suited to the format, as in a Comment.
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I am utilizing a xlookup with indirect references function with certain date ranges to determine the range of rows to search in. With 3k rows of data and repeating values this helped me pair down to non-repeating values so I don't have an errant value from an earlier entry. The xlookup initially worked great when I manually inputted range of rows to search in but when indirect was introduced I am getting my error message I programmed (leading me to believe there isn't an error with my function)
When I utilize the direct references (meaning I'd have to change the date ranges directly in formula) it works great!
`=xlookup(T3,Statistics!F203:F215,Statistics!A203:215,"Not Scheduled",1,1)`
However when I use indirect to reference the specific range (so that I can adjust the date range over one cell and the reference rows recalculate) I get the error message I programmed.
`=xlookup(T3,indirect(Statistics!Q11&":"&Statistics!R11),indirect(Statistics!T11&":"&Statistics!U11),"Not Scheduled",1,1)`
Q11=F203
R11=F215
T11=A203
U11=A215
The correct answer lies in Row F205 which is within the ranges specified in the function.
Usually I figure these out or find a typo when utilizing my functions but I'll be honest and say this has me stumped. The references on the other page are identical. Just for note I also tried a Concateate function to combine the two cells before calling indirect with the same result. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this would add verification to a transportation system instead of double entry across two systems.
As far as I see it, what I think you're missing is the name of the sheet. You're referencing to the cells but not clarifying that the INDIRECT function has to look into "Statistics". Try adding it:
=xlookup(T3,indirect("Statistics!"&Statistics!Q11&":"&Statistics!R11),indirect("Statistics!"&Statistics!T11&":"&Statistics!U11),"Not Scheduled",1,1)
About that 1 after "Not Scheduled", are you sure you don't want an exact match only? Meaning to use a 0 instead of 1
pretty new to google sheets, my question could seems awkward but i'm struggling with a sumif in google sheets.
I'm using a sumif to sum up some values with a simple condition and i struggle to find the right way to do it. Assuming the documentation i do it well but i must be missing something because the result is always : ERROR!
See the example below
The example is simple, applying exactly what the documentation says but still not working.
I tried to make the cell format number for the condition, still not working.
I tried to make the condition a string by typing "=1", still not work. I tried to use a cell value in the condition B5 for example, still not working.. I'm desperate, i don't understand why this simple example is still not working.
If someone could help it will save my time.
Chances are that your spreadsheet is using a locale that expects formula arguments to be separated with semicolons instead of commas, like this:
=sumif(B5:B10; 1; C5:C10)
You can set the locale in File > Settings > Locale.
I have a fairly simple table, which looks like the following:
I want to get a specific value from that table. For that I am using two different formulas:
=iferror(DGET(Bazaar!$A:$K;"Top Sell-Offer";{"Item";"ENCHANTED_COAL"});"?") ==> returns "?"; Should get some numbers
=iferror(DGET(Bazaar!$A:$K;"Top Sell-Offer";{"Item";"ENCHANTED_OBSIDIAN"});"?") ==> returns "2747" as expected
I also tried =index(filter(Bazaar!$B:$K;Bazaar!$A:$A="ENCHANTED_COAL");;1)
which does return what I expected, but I can't specify the column I want by header.
Note that both strings for conditions and column headers are copy-pasted and thus character-perfect (As you can also see in the results.)
Also note that this does not happen with the truncated table provided, please refer to this sheet.
Why do I get such inconsistent results and what can I do about that?
Thanks in advance! Stay healthy!
I made a copy of your sheet and messed around with it. Finally, I decided to remove the IFERROR part and I got the error of "More than one match found in DGET evaluation.". The error was the key.
The formula is seeing "ENCHANTED_COAL_BLOCK" as another match for "ENCHANTED_COAL". Once I removed "COAL" from coal block, the formula worked as it should.
In order to get it to stop seeing double (to find an exact match), simply add an equal sign in front of the word you are looking for:
=IFERROR(DGET(Bazaar!$A:$K,"Top Sell-Offer",{"Item";"=ENCHANTED_COAL"}),"?")
=IFERROR(DGET(Bazaar!$A:$K,C$3,{$A$3;"="&$A5}),"?")
I recommend adding the equal sign in front of all words you search for just for consistency purposes.
Reference: https://infoinspired.com/google-docs/spreadsheet/exact-match-in-database-functions-in-google-sheets/
I'm trying to summarize data from several Google spreadsheet' sheets in a single one but I have some issues with SUMIF and FIND.
To Sum data from another sheet I have to use this (at least that's the only solution I've found)
=SUM(INDIRECT(""&A6&""&"!E2:E"))
Where I have the name of my sheet on A6.This makes everything easy because I have a column (A) with all the names of the sheets. I haven't found something like Sheets[1] in Google Docs.
My next step was to Sum Times from a specific column but remove a specific values, which in this case is 1 that get transformed internally 24:00:00 since it's a time column:
=SUM(INDIRECT(""&A6&""&"!D2:D")) - SUMIF(INDIRECT(""&A6&""&"!D2:D");"24:00:00")
Here I tried to do everything with a single SUMIF but I have no idea how. NOT("24:00:00") didn't work so I settled to this.
The last part is the most difficult and I'm not able to solve it.
I have a column with month names (for example) and I want to sum some data only when the month name contains "er". Here is what I thought:
=SUMIF(A6:A16,ISNUMBER(Find("er")),G6:G16)
This gives me always 0
(Note that the last one contains A6:A16 instead of the whole INDIRECT part because I am still testing it in a single sheet.)
Any Idea what I'm doing wrong?
I don't know why the above SUMIF doesn't work, what I've tested and works is:
=SUMIF(A6:A16,"*er*",G6:G16)
SUMIF is NOT SUM + IF as I thought. I hope it will help someone else.
In Google Docs Spreadsheets, one can use Range Names to put labels on ranges of cells to make formulas more legible. In most formulas, one can use the range C:C to denote the entire C column, and C2:C to denote the entire C column after and including C2.
Is there a way to create range names of the same nature? When I try C:C or C2:C or Sheet!C:C or 'Sheet'!C:C I always get the error "The range you specified is not in a valid range format." I would like the range name to expand as my form adds rows to my spreadsheet. Thanks.
I just discovered the if you use the '-' operator, it starts from the bottom row. So,
=INDIRECT("-D:D12")
starts from the last row and works it's way up to D12!
I had a similar problem. Although I do not know how to do exactly what you are asking, you can do essentially the same thing by referencing cells that are not yet created.
For example:
Column C currently has 100 cells (100 rows in the sheet)
Instead of referencing it with C:C, use C1:C999
If you make the row reference high enough, then you can account for future rows that you will create. Hope it helps.
I don't think so... even if you select a column manually while in the Range Name selector, it complains. That would be a nice feature and it would make sense since they support column ranges for formulas already.
I believe this does work now. I have a range name of "Sheet1!A10:AW10" with no problems.
If you try to do a whole column, I think it will just take all the available cells in the column at that time. i.e. if you make more cells later, you need to manually add to the range name.
I had the same problem with ranges such as A3:A which normally work in other places such as ARRAYFORMULA(), but the workaround is to not specify the starting row, such as A:A. In cases when this would be a problem, you can proxy the data through another column using something like ARRAYFORUMULA(A25:A) as the formula.
Update: Apparently I haven't read the question properly. I see that the OP had tried leaving out the row number, so perhaps it wasn't working at that time, but it does now. The notations still don't work.
Update2: I didn't notice that google spreadsheet replaces ranges like A:A to A1:A50, so new rows added later on do not still get included. That I think is what #Dean is trying to say in his answer.
I think it's a helpful tool to use Insert -> Define new range to make a wizard appear and make the syntax correct. Hehe
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