I'd like to run a =SUM(A1:G1), but always skip one column, regardless if it has value or not.
In this case, it should calculate A1+C1+E1+G1.
Is there another function I could append to SUM() or other similar functions as SUM in order to skip one column?
Thank you!
Using the following method you can calculate any number of alternate columns, without the need of manual +
Suppose your data is in second row onwards, use this formula
=SUMPRODUCT(A2:G2, MOD(COLUMN(A2:G2),2))
Simply a sumproduct of cell values and a array of {1,0,1,0,1...}
Another slight variation
=SUMPRODUCT(A2:G2*ISODD(COLUMN(A2:G2)))
But if the even columns contain letters instead of numbers this will give an error, so you can use instead
=SUMPRODUCT(N(+A1:G1)*ISODD(COLUMN(A1:G1)))
Comparing #AnilGoyal's answer, this works as well
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:G1,--ISODD(COLUMN(A1:G1)))
You can use:
=SUM(INDEX(A1:G1,N(IF(1,{1,3,5,7}))))
Or with Excel O365:
=SUM(INDEX(A1:G1,{1,3,5,7}))
A bit more of a general solution:
=SUMPRODUCT(MOD(COLUMN(A1:G1),2)*A1:G1)
Or with Excel O365:
=SUM(MOD(COLUMN(A1:G1),2)*A1:G1)
Or even:
=SUM(INDEX(1:1,SEQUENCE(4,,1,2)))
Since you included Google-Sheets, I'll throw in an option using QUERY():
=SUM(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(1:1),"Select * skipping 2"))
Maybe a bit more verbose, but very understandable IMO.
Consider something of the format:
=SUM(A1:G1)-INDEX(A1:G1,2)
The 2 in the formula means remove the 2nd item in the part of the row. (so the 999 is dropped)
So the formula =SUM(BZ10:ZZ10)-INDEX(BZ10:ZZ10,2) drops CA10 from the sum, etc.(a similar formula can be constructed for columns)
google sheets:
=INDEX(MMULT(N(A1:H3), 1*ISODD(SEQUENCE(COLUMNS(A:H)))))
=INDEX(IF(ISODD(COLUMN(A:H)), TRANSPOSE(MMULT(TRANSPOSE(
IFERROR(A1:H3*ISODD(COLUMN(A:H)), 0)), 1^ROW(A1:A3))), ))
First of all, i'm not a powerful sheets user :)
I'm trying to use GOOGLEFINANCE to calculate amounts in multiple currencies.
I use this formula:
=IF($A2;
IF(
$C2:C;
$C2:C;
IF(
$D2:D;
$D2:D*INDEX(GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:USDUAH";"close";$A2);2;2);
$E2:E*INDEX(GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:EURUAH";"close";$A2);2;2)
));
0)
A-column contains dates,
C,D,E - amounts in 3 different currencies.
IFs are just to prioritize columns :)
The formula works well but i need to "extend" it each time i add row - to increment
$A2 -> $A3 to get rate for specified date.
I try to use ArrayFormula but it turns out it keeps reference to $A2 so i get same rate irrelevant from date specified in A-cells.
I have created sample sheet to illustrate:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2TbGIWl7JacYKiWgwwmJfelxJ-7fa9F9obp5XswW18/edit?usp=sharing
I have allowed editing by anyone, so if you decide to edit - please don't remove anything :) also you can drop your username in sticky row(above your proposed solution)
Is there a way to apply ArrayFormula to this to make it work?
Maybe you can provide more readable solution to nested IFs.
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A<>"";
IF(C2:C<>""; C2:C;
IF(D2:D<>""; VLOOKUP(TO_TEXT(A2:A);
TO_TEXT(QUERY(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:USDUAH";
"close"; MIN(A:A); MAX(A:A)+1);
"offset 1 format Col1'dd.mm.yy'"; 0)); 2; 0)*1;
VLOOKUP(TO_TEXT(A2:A);
TO_TEXT(QUERY(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:EURUAH";
"close"; MIN(A:A); MAX(A:A)+1);
"offset 1 format Col1'dd.mm.yy'"; 0)); 2; 0)*1)); ))
There is a new simpler and more flexible method now since the introduction of LAMBDA and its helper functions in Google Sheets in August 2022.
Assuming dates in A2:A, and amounts in UAH, USD, EUR in C2:C, D2:D, E2:E respectively, then the following formula will work, e.g. in cell F2:
=MAP(A2:A;C2:C;D2:D;E2:E;
LAMBDA(date;uah;usd;eur;
IFS(
uah;uah;
usd;usd*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("currency:usduah";"price";date);2;2);
eur;eur*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("currency:euruah";"price";date);2;2);
ISBLANK(date);)))
The trick here is that MAP(LAMBDA) calculates the specified formula for each row of the input array separately (effect similar to manually expanding the formula over the whole range), whereas ARRAYFORMULA passes the whole array as an argument to the formula (GOOGLEFINANCE is special and doesn't work intuitively with such input).
This general method with MAP(LAMBDA) can now be used to pass any arguments to GOOGLEFINANCE in a way one would otherwise expect to do with ARRAYFORMULA.
Try This One:
=arrayformula(
IF(query(arrayformula(if(A2:A="",False,True)),
"Select * where Col1=True"),
IF( $C2:C,
$C2:C,
IF( $D2:D,
$D2:D*INDEX(GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:USDUAH","close",$A2),2,2),
$E2:E*INDEX(GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:EURUAH","close",$A2),2,2))),0))
To start, this is my first time posting and so please let me know if I can fix my post in any way to make it easier to answer.
I am trying to create an auto-expanding array formula
I have a sheet with my investment asset mix that including amounts of shares owned of each particular stock, and a sheet that tracks when I receive dividends. My goal is to write an automatically expanding array formula that will sum up the amount of shares that own of a stock on the date a dividend is received and return that value. I have written three different formulas that all accomplish this but none of them will auto-expand as an array.
I'm sure there are a lot of solutions I've overlooked. To boil it down, I need an expanding array formula that will sum the "Shares" column of my asset mix sheet ('Asset Mix'!D2:D, or 'AssetMixShares') conditionally. The name of the stock entered in 'Dividends'!C2:C needs to match the name of the stock in 'Asset Mix'!A2:A (or the named range 'AssetMixStocks'). It then needs to check the dates in 'Asset Mix'!C2:C (or 'AssetMixDates') against the dates in 'Dividends'!A2:A and sum all share amounts where the purchase date is less than (earlier than) the Ex-Dividend Date.
I could probably write some sort of vlookup array on the "Running Total" column -- 'Asset Mix'!E:E -- that would solve the issue, but I'm hoping to eliminate that column. I feel very strongly that what I'm trying to do should be possible without the help of a running total column -- I just don't have the knowledge.
I have tried countless functions and formulas, but the four that I currently have in my example worksheet are SUM, SUMPRODUCT, DSUM, and QUERY.
Attempt 1
SUM and IF
=ArrayFormula(SUM(IF('Asset Mix'!A:A=C2,IF('Asset Mix'!C:C<A2,'Asset Mix'!D:D))))
Attempt 2
SUMPRODUCT
=({arrayformula(SUMPRODUCT(--((AssetMixStock=(indirect("C"&ROW())))*(AssetMixDate<(indirect("A"&ROW())))),AssetMixShares))})
Attempt 3
DSUM
=DSUM('Asset Mix'!A:E,"Shares",{"Date","Stock";"<"&A2,C2})
Attempt 4
QUERY
=arrayformula(query(AssetMix,"Select sum(D) where A = '"&C2:C&"' and C < date'"&(text(year(A2:A),"0000") & "-" & text(month(A2:A),"00") & "-" & text(day(A2:A),"00"))&"' label sum(D) ''",0))
These will all work, as long as I manually drag the formula down, but I want to write some sort of formula that will auto-expand to the bottom of the Dividends sheet.
I have tried to create a Dummy sheet that has both of the relevant sheets. Please let me know if you can access it -- the link is below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wlKffma0NJ0KrlWxyX_N20y62azsGpFp3enhmjzJK1Q/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks so much for getting this far and any help you can provide!
We can focus in the first formula to understand a way to make it "self-expandable". As we see it contains references to the cells A2 and C2 in "Dividends" sheet:
=ArrayFormula(SUM(IF('Asset Mix'!A:A=C2,IF('Asset Mix'!C:C<A2,'Asset Mix'!D:D))))
Every time some data appears in these columns (A and C), the formula should work. We can control the presence of the formula by onEdit trigger, if editing is manual. Consider the code:
function onEdit(e) {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getActiveSheet();
if (sheet.getName() == 'Dividends') {
var row = e.range.getRow();
for (var offset = 0; offset < e.range.getHeight(); offset++) {
sheet.getRange(3, 10).copyTo(sheet.getRange(row + offset, 10));
}
}
}
It checks any modification on the sheet "Dividends" and copies required formula to the modified row(s). This way the formula is expanded for other rows in use.
Well, it's solved! I'll leave this up in case anyone else has the same question.
A kind soul explained the magic of MMULT() to me, and wrote this solution.
=ARRAYFORMULA(MMULT((C2:C=TRANSPOSE('Asset Mix'!A2:A))*(A2:A>TRANSPOSE('Asset Mix'!C2:C)),N('Asset Mix'!D2:D))
I use the following function
=DAYS360(A2, A35)
to calculate the difference between two dates in my column. However, the column is ever expanding and I currently have to manually change 'A35' as I update my spreadsheet.
Is there a way (in Google Sheets) to find the last non-empty cell in this column and then dynamically set that parameter in the above function?
There may be a more eloquent way, but this is the way I came up with:
The function to find the last populated cell in a column is:
=INDEX( FILTER( A:A ; NOT( ISBLANK( A:A ) ) ) ; ROWS( FILTER( A:A ; NOT( ISBLANK( A:A ) ) ) ) )
So if you combine it with your current function it would look like this:
=DAYS360(A2,INDEX( FILTER( A:A ; NOT( ISBLANK( A:A ) ) ) ; ROWS( FILTER( A:A ; NOT( ISBLANK( A:A ) ) ) ) ))
To find the last non-empty cell you can use INDEX and MATCH functions like this:
=DAYS360(A2; INDEX(A:A; MATCH(99^99;A:A; 1)))
I think this is a little bit faster and easier.
If A2:A contains dates contiguously then INDEX(A2:A,COUNT(A2:A)) will return the last date. The final formula is
=DAYS360(A2,INDEX(A2:A,COUNT(A2:A)))
Although the question is already answered, there is an eloquent way to do it.
Use just the column name to denote last non-empty row of that column.
For example:
If your data is in A1:A100 and you want to be able to add some more data to column A, say it can be A1:A105 or even A1:A1234 later, you can use this range:
A1:A
So to get last non-empty value in a range, we will use 2 functions:
COUNTA
INDEX
The answer is =INDEX(B3:B,COUNTA(B3:B)).
Here is the explanation:
COUNTA(range): Returns number of values in a range, we can use this to get the count of rows.
INDEX(range, row, col): Returns the content of a cell, specified by row and column offset. If the column is omitted then the whole row is returned.
Examples:
INDEX(A1:C5,1,1) = A1
INDEX(A1:C5,1) = A1,B1,C1 # Whole row since the column is not specified
INDEX(A1:C5,1,2) = B1
INDEX(A1:C5,1,3) = C1
INDEX(A1:C5,2,1) = A2
INDEX(A1:C5,2,2) = B2
INDEX(A1:C5,2,3) = C2
INDEX(A1:C5,3,1) = A3
INDEX(A1:C5,3,2) = B3
INDEX(A1:C5,3,3) = C3
For the picture above, our range will be B3:B. So we will count how many values are there in range B3:B by COUNTA(B3:B) first. In the left side, it will produce 8 since there are 8 values while it will produce 9 in the right side. We also know that the last value is in the 1st column of the range B3:B so the col parameter of INDEX must be 1 and the row parameter should be COUNTA(B3:B).
PS: please upvote #bloodymurderlive's answer since he wrote it first, I'm just explaining it here.
My favorite is:
=INDEX(A2:A,COUNTA(A2:A),1)
So, for the OP's need:
=DAYS360(A2,INDEX(A2:A,COUNTA(A2:A),1))
If the column expanded only by contiguously added dates
as in my case - I used just MAX function to get last date.
The final formula will be:
=DAYS360(A2; MAX(A2:A))
Here's another one:
=indirect("A"&max(arrayformula(if(A:A<>"",row(A:A),""))))
With the final equation being this:
=DAYS360(A2,indirect("A"&max(arrayformula(if(A:A<>"",row(A:A),"")))))
The other equations on here work, but I like this one because it makes getting the row number easy, which I find I need to do more often. Just the row number would be like this:
=max(arrayformula(if(A:A<>"",row(A:A),"")))
I originally tried to find just this to solve a spreadsheet issue, but couldn't find anything useful that just gave the row number of the last entry, so hopefully this is helpful for someone.
Also, this has the added advantage that it works for any type of data in any order, and you can have blank rows in between rows with content, and it doesn't count cells with formulas that evaluate to "". It can also handle repeated values. All in all it's very similar to the equation that uses max((G:G<>"")*row(G:G)) on here, but makes pulling out the row number a little easier if that's what you're after.
Alternatively, if you want to put a script on your sheet you can make it easy on yourself if you plan on doing this a lot. Here's that scirpt:
function lastRow(sheet,column) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
if (column == null) {
if (sheet != null) {
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(sheet);
} else {
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
}
return sheet.getLastRow();
} else {
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(sheet);
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow();
var array = sheet.getRange(column + 1 + ':' + column + lastRow).getValues();
for (i=0;i<array.length;i++) {
if (array[i] != '') {
var final = i + 1;
}
}
if (final != null) {
return final;
} else {
return 0;
}
}
}
Here you can just type in the following if you want the last row on the same of the sheet that you're currently editing:
=LASTROW()
or if you want the last row of a particular column from that sheet, or of a particular column from another sheet you can do the following:
=LASTROW("Sheet1","A")
And for the last row of a particular sheet in general:
=LASTROW("Sheet1")
Then to get the actual data you can either use indirect:
=INDIRECT("A"&LASTROW())
or you can modify the above script at the last two return lines (the last two since you would have to put both the sheet and the column to get the actual value from an actual column), and replace the variable with the following:
return sheet.getRange(column + final).getValue();
and
return sheet.getRange(column + lastRow).getValue();
One benefit of this script is that you can choose if you want to include equations that evaluate to "". If no arguments are added equations evaluating to "" will be counted, but if you specify a sheet and column they will now be counted. Also, there's a lot of flexibility if you're willing to use variations of the script.
Probably overkill, but all possible.
This works for me. Get last value of the column A in Google sheet:
=index(A:A,max(row(A:A)*(A:A<>"")))
(It also skips blank rows in between if any)
This seems like the simplest solution that I've found to retrieve the last value in an ever-expanding column:
=INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A),1)
For strictly finding the last non-empty cell in a column, this should work...
=LOOKUP(2^99, A2:A)
What about this formula for getting the last value:
=index(G:G;max((G:G<>"")*row(G:G)))
And this would be a final formula for your original task:
=DAYS360(G10;index(G:G;max((G:G<>"")*row(G:G))))
Suppose that your initial date is in G10.
I went a different route. Since I know I'll be adding something into a row/column one by one, I find out the last row by first counting the fields that have data. I'll demonstrate this with a column:
=COUNT(A5:A34)
So, let's say that returned 21. A5 is 4 rows down, so I need to get the 21st position from the 4th row down. I can do this using inderect, like so:
=INDIRECT("A"&COUNT(A5:A34)+4)
It's finding the amount of rows with data, and returning me a number I'm using as an index modifier.
for a row:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDIRECT("A"&MAX(IF(A:A<>"", ROW(A:A), ))))
for a column:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1, MAX(IF(1:1<>"", COLUMN(1:1), )), 4)))
This will give the contents of the last cell:
=indirect("A"&max(ARRAYFORMULA(row(a:a)*--(a:a<>""))))
This will give the address of the last cell:
="A"&max(ARRAYFORMULA(row(a:a)*--(a:a<>"")))
This will give the row of the last cell:
=max(ARRAYFORMULA(row(a:a)*--(a:a<>"")))
Maybe you'd prefer a script. This script is way shorter than the huge one posted above by someone else:
Go to script editor and save this script:
function getLastRow(range){
while(range.length>0 && range[range.length-1][0]=='') range.pop();
return range.length;
}
One this is done you just need to enter this in a cell:
=getLastRow(A:A)
Calculate the difference between latest date in column A with the date in cell A2.
=MAX(A2:A)-A2
To find last nonempty row number (allowing blanks between them) I used below to search column A.
=ArrayFormula(IFNA(match(2,1/(A:A<>""))))
The way an amateur does it is "=CONCATENATE("A",COUNTUNIQUE(A1:A9999))", where A1 is the first cell in the column, and A9999 is farther down that column than I ever expect to have any entries. This resultant A# can be used with the INDIRECT function as needed.
Ben Collins is a Google sheets guru, he has many tips on his site for free and also offers courses. He has a free article on dynamic range names and I have used this as the basis for many of my projects.
https://www.benlcollins.com/formula-examples/dynamic-named-ranges/
Disclaimer, I have nothing to gain by referring Ben's site.
Here is a screenshot of one of my projects using dynamic ranges:
Cell D3 has this formula which was shown above except this is as an array formula:
=ArrayFormula(MAX(IF(L2s!A2:A1009<>"",ROW(2:1011))))
Cell D4 has this formula:
="L2s!A2:E"&D3
This may work:
=DAYS360(A2,INDEX(A2:A,COUNTA(A2:A)))
To pick the last in a column of arbitrary, non-empty values ignoring the header cell (A1):
=INDEX(A2:A,COUNT(A2:A))
With the introduction of LAMBDA and REDUCE functions we can now compute the row number in a single pass through the cells (Several of the solutions above filter the range twice.) and without relying on magic text or numeric values.
=lambda(rng,
REDUCE(0, rng, lambda(maxrow, cell, if(isblank(cell),maxrow,row(cell)) ) )
)(A:A)
which can be nicely packaged into a Named Function for usage like
=LAST_ROWNUM(A:A)
It works on columns with interspersed blanks, and multi-column ranges (because REDUCE iterates over the range in row-first), and partial columns (like A20:A), still returning the actual row number (not the offset within the range).
This can then be combined with Index to return the value
=DAYS360(A2, Index(A1, LAST_ROWNUM(A:A)))
(In truth, though, I suspect that the OPs date values are monotonic (even if with blanks in between), and that he could get away with
=DAYS360(A2, MAX(A2:A))
This solution is identified above as relying on the dates being "contiguous" - whether that means "no blanks" or "no missing dates" I'm not certain - but either stipulation is not necessary.)