In google spreadsheets, I have the formula:
=VLOOKUP("hello",'Sheet1'!$C$2:$C$65, 1)
My expectation is that this would echo the value "hello" if it was found in Sheet1 in range C2:C65, and be null otherwise. It instead gives the value from C35 ("hello" is found in C17 of Sheet1).
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong this?
Thanks!
VLOOKUP returns #N/A where the formula is correct but the value sought is not present where searched for.
The fourth parameter for the function is optional but defaults to TRUE which may give incorrect results when the search column is not sorted.
Ref
I think what you are doing wrong is 'instructing' the formula that the column to be searched is sorted in order when it is not. Sorting is critical for a binary search.
If you interpret How to match info between tabs in a Google spreadsheet the same way as I did there is an example that works on Web Apps.
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I tried to calculate "TRUE" and "FALSE" in Calculation sheet, but I'm getting the error "Array arguments to COUNTIFS are of different size".
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Formula I'm using: =COUNTIFS(Data!A3:A,"0*",Data!B3:B,"Anna",Data!C3:C,B3,Data!D3:I,"TRUE")
Link to the sheet. In the sheet DATA you can find all data and in the sheet Calculation you can see some kind of overview data/results.
Goal: I want to count "TRUE" from multiple columns (depending on the test) but it should match with correct date, name and type of IDs).
try:
=SUMPRODUCT(FILTER(Data!D3:I, Data!B3:B=A3, Data!C3:C=B3)=TRUE)
for false use:
=SUMPRODUCT(FILTER(Data!D3:I, Data!B3:B=A3, Data!C3:C=B3)=FALSE)
update:
=SUMPRODUCT(IFNA(FILTER(Data!D:I, REGEXMATCH(Data!A:A&"", "^0.+"),
Data!B:B=$A3, Data!C:C=$B3)&""="TRUE"))
=SUMPRODUCT(IFNA(FILTER(Data!D:I, REGEXMATCH(Data!A:A&"", "^0.+"),
Data!B:B=$A3, Data!C:C=$B3)&""="FALSE"))
in Google Spreadsheets I have a column A with dates and column B with specific values corresponding these dates:
A
B
10-Jan
51.1
11-Jan
49.2
14-Jan
50.3
If I find via VLOOKUP function the value of 11-Jan, it will work and show 49.2.
Off cause it won't work if I try to find a value of 13-Jan since it is absent from the list of dates. However, if the date is absent in column A I want to get the value of earlier date which is in the list (i.e. I want to get 49.2 corresponding to 11-Jan, if I use 13-Jan as the query for finding the value).
Maybe this type of search can be realized by using INDIRECT function, but I can't figure out the formula.
How do realize this?
Your problem can be solved by using vlookup only but with different parameter, if you indicate True for the last parameter, it mean the formula will try to return the closer match if it cannot found any result.
=arrayformula(VLOOKUP(E1:E5,A:B,2,True))
I have a Google Sheet (example) with a basic vlookup to create a summable column. It returns "#N/A" for every search key not found, and attaches the following error to those cells:
Error Did not find value 'me#me.com' in VLOOKUP evaluation.
After much searching the only solution I found was to wrap the vlookup in an IF(ISNA()), given in How to link various Google spreadsheets using IMPORTRANGEs that contain VLOOKUP formulas without getting #N/A returned?. This works, but it really seems like I should not have to do this. Is there another way?
Update 2019-03-01: The best solution is now =IFNA(VLOOKUP(…), 0). See this other answer.
You can use the following formula. It will replace any #N/A value possibly returned by VLOOKUP(…) with 0.
=SUMIF(VLOOKUP(…),"<>#N/A")
How it works: This uses SUMIF() with only one value VLOOKUP(…) to sum up. So the result is that one value, but only if unequal to #N/A as per the condition argument. If the value equals #N/A however, the sum is zero. That's just how SUMIF() works: if no values match the conditions, it returns 0, not NULL, not #N/A.
Advantages:
Compared to the solution =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(…)),"",VLOOKUP(…)) referenced in the question, this solution contains the VLOOKUP(…) part only once. This makes the formula shorter and simpler, and avoids the mistakes that happen when editing only one of the two VLOOKUP(…) parts.
Compared to the solution =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(…)) from the other answer, errors are not suppressed as that would make detecting and debugging them more difficult. Only #N/A values are suppressed.
=IFNA(VLOOKUP(...), "")
Not sure if this has changed recently, but the IFNA implementation supports a single listing of the VLOOKUP now. That is, you don't have to wrap it in another IF.
An advantage there is that you could choose "", 0, NULL, etc. as the value to show on failure.
A simpler way to suppress error messages - of any kind - is to use the iferror wrapper:
=iferror(vlookup(A1,Lookup!A:B,2,FALSE))
I don't think there can be an easier way than that. By design, vlookup should not simply return blank if the key wasn't found: this would be indistinguishable from the situation where the key was found but the corresponding entry in second column was blank. Some error has to be thrown, and then it's up to the spreadsheet user how to handle it.
Just add
TRUE, ""
to your list of parameters, like so:
IFS(condition1, value1, condition2, value2, TRUE, "")
This works, because IFS "returns a value that corresponds to the FIRST true condition."
The VLOOKUP formulas which works individually are
=if(VLOOKUP(E2,DB!$C:$E,1,0)>0,"COMPLETED",)
=if(VLOOKUP(E2,DB!$F:$H,1,0)>0,"IN PROGRESS",)
The issue is while displaying both results in a single cell, the formula which I came up for this was
C2=if(AND(VLOOKUP(E4,DB!$C:$E,1,0)>0),"COMPLETED",if(VLOOKUP(E4,DB!$F:$H,1,0)>0,"IN PROGRESS","UNDEFINED"))
I have tested the formula with normal conditions other than VLOOKUP and it works without any issues, not sure what's wrong with it.
Example : C10=if(AND(E10=1),"ONE",if(E10=2,"TWO","NO DATA"))
Any help appreciated.
May be its something simple but I am pulling my hair out for the last 3 hours.
Thanks :)
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Updated 03.05.2016
Sorry for the comments that I have posted as I am new at using Stack overflow.
I have tried with only IF statements without any AND conditions, but the result is still same. The VLOOKUP is not returning the second value.
C15=IF(VLOOKUP(E15,DB!$F:$H,1,0)>0,"COMPLETED",if(VLOOKUP(E15,DB!$F:$H,1,0)>0,"IN PROGRESS","UNDEFINED"))
What I am expecting in cell C2 (sheet1) is check the values in cell
E2 against the columns C:H ( Sheet 2/ DB). If it belongs to
Column C:C in (sheet2/DB) then the value in C2 (sheet1) should display
as "Completed" else if the value is in column F:F ( sheet2/DB) then in C2
(sheet1) should display "In Progress".
Link to my spreadsheet link
There are a few problems with your formula.
VLOOKUP and similar functions search within a single row or column, and it seems like you're looking for your value in multiple rows and columns.
As #Meta mentioned, VLOOKUP returns N/A when the value is not found in the range, and you are expecting a zero or less value to be returned (when you check for >0 in the IF statement). Note that VLOOKUP returns the cell value itself and not an index of a match (like the MATCH function).
My suggestion is to replace your VLOOKUPs with COUNTIF.
=IF(COUNTIF(DB!$F:$H,E2)>0,"COMPLETED",IF(COUNTIF(DB!$C:$D,E2)>0,"IN PROGRESS","UNDEFINED"))
COUNTIF counts in multiple rows and columns, and will return a zero if no matches are found.
My goal is to fill down formula while data exist in an adjacent column.
Here is my original formula:
=index(lookups!$M$2:$M30,match($A3,lookups!$N$2:$N30,0))
This formula works in that results are returned as expected.
I then tried this in the hope of it copying down:
=index(lookups!$M$2:$M30,match($A3:A,lookups!$N$2:$N30,0))
This resulted in #N/A "Did not find value in match"
Then I read this post and looked at the second most voted answer and tried editing my formula to this:
=arrayFormula(index(lookups!$M$2:$M30,match($A3:A,lookups!$N$2:$N30,0)))
This time the formula copy down as I hoped, but with a #VALUE error "Function IF parameter 1 expects boolean values. But 'ADT- Alaska Travel Vendor Activities (Search)' is a text and cannot be coerced to a boolean."
How can I tell sheets to copy the index(Match()) all the way down while data exist in column A?
See if this formula delivers the desired output ?
=ARRAYFORMULA(iferror(vlookup(A3:A, {lookups!$B$2:$B, lookups!$A$2:$A}, 2, 0)))