I'm trying to work out a formula for combining an IF statement and a VLOOPUP.
Basically, I want the formula to return a value if a value was found through VLOOKUP, or to return something else if not found...
I have experimented with
=IF(VLOOKUP(A1,$B$2:$B$31, 1, 0),"FOUND","NOT FOUND!")
... but this doesn't seem to work.
Many thanks for any thoughts you might have...
An old thread but would like to submit a cleaner solution for the Vlookup example or places where you want to use the value returned by a formula-
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A1,$B$2:$B$31, 1, 0),"NOT FOUND")
If you just want to check whether A1 exists in B2:B31 then VLOOKUP isn't required. Either use MATCH like this
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A1,$B$2:$B$31,0)),"FOUND","NOT FOUND")
or shorter with COUNTIF
=IF(COUNTIF($B$2:$B$31,A1),"FOUND","NOT FOUND")
ISERROR() can test to see if a formula generates an error or not.
In this case, IF and VLOOKUP can be combined using
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A1,$B$2:$B$31, 1, 0)),"NOT FOUND!", "FOUND")
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(
C2,IMPORTRANGE("URL","Sheet1!B2:B2000"),0)),"FOUND","NOT FOUND")
If the matching data is in another file we can use the above formula.
Related
I tried different approaches to accomplish what I am looking for and it might not be possible with how I have formated my data but I will try to explain it to see if there is a way.
My origin of data looks like the following:
Case
HELP
100
HELP-01
HELP-02
101
HELP-01
102
103
HELP-03
What I want is to be able to extract the HELP-* into another column without duplicate values and one after another. The result I am looking for is from the above table been able to have this:
HELP
HELP-01
HELP-02
HELP-03
Is there a way to do this in Google Sheets?
Thank you,
Alternatively you can use:
=UNIQUE(QUERY(FLATTEN(B2:C),"where Col1 like 'HELP-%'"))
The QUERY() will now only return those values that start with 'HELP-' in the case you might have other string-values.
A littel more specific even, could be to use:
=UNIQUE(QUERY(FLATTEN(B2:C),"where Col1 matches 'HELP-\d+'"))
Where 'matches' will now use the regular expression to only return values that start with 'HELP-' but end with any 1+ digits.
Try this in Google Sheets
=sort(array_constrain(unique(flatten(B2:C)),counta(B2:C),1))
I want to return TRUE for blank cells until last value (check out the Required column)
I tried this formula: =AND($A2="" ,$A3:$A <> "") but it didn't work.
Question 1: How can I make 2nd argument i.e. $A3:$A <> "" return true if any one cell in the range $A3:$A is Not Null? Final Formula?
(I know my formula is wrong because it doesn't check every cell in the range mentioned if it is NULL or not, how can I make it check every cell?)
Question 2: ArrayFormula for the corresponding Formula.
(Please suggest if there's any better way to get the Formula & ArrayFromula along with the solution of the method I tried)
Here is the sheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VF38MNcP1e4ieZY47QQq1zOwGYWAmuJ2k9A0WkGYeX0/edit?usp=sharing
EDIT:
I got the Formula: =IFNA(MATCH(FALSE,ArrayFormula(isblank(A2:A)),0),0)>1
For ArrayFormula I just tried wrapping it around but it didn't work: =ARRAYFORMULA(IFNA(MATCH(FALSE,ArrayFormula(isblank(A2:A)),0),0)>1)
I just need the ArrayFormula of this Formula & please tell me what's wrong in my ArrayFormula?
Thank you!
Try below formula.
=ArrayFormula(A2:A10="")
For full column
=ArrayFormula(A2:A="")
Edit: Then use below formula.
=ArrayFormula(INDEX(A:A,2):INDEX(A:A,MAX(IF(A:A<>"",ROW(A:A),0)))="")
try:
=INDEX(INDIRECT("A2:A"&MAX(IF(A2:A="",,ROW(A2:A))))="")
or:
=INDEX(INDIRECT("A2:A"&MAX((A2:A<>"")*ROW(A2:A)))="")
I suggest this simple formula:
=ArrayFormula(NOT(A2:A))
Since any value equates to TRUE and null equates to FALSE, wrapping the range in NOT will return the opposite.
ADDENDUM:
Given additional information from poster:
=ArrayFormula(IF((A2:A="")*(ROW(A2:A)<VLOOKUP(TRUE,SORT({A2:A<>"",ROW(A2:A)},2,0),2,FALSE)),TRUE,FALSE))
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))), ))
I wrote this formula in the spreadsheet: =if(match(AR$2,$A5:$E5,0),AR$2,"")
If there is no match, it's supposed to leave the cell blank, instead it gives #N/A. but if there is a match, it gives the value. Can anybody show me how to correct this? thanks.
You could use iferror
try something like:
=iferror(if(match(AR$2,$A5:$E5,0),AR$2),"")
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."