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A Little Help from my Friends
I am an advanced (expert) in Excel. I've used it for over 20 years everyday and have thousands of education hours under my belt. I would like to get some ideas on how some of you would approach this complex situation I have. I have already created three different methods but each have too many draw backs or failure points. With that said, I'll try to be brief but detailed enough for your thoughts. I have a file for which I'll call the Master-File it has a list of parts, suppliers, prices by month with Forecast and Actual. Current and Future months are forecast, previous months are actuals. I have 6 people that send me, what I'll refer to as Sub-Files. These subfiles contain the same headers as the Master-File. In the Master-File previous months data cannot change. (Ex. If reporting was done today 7/14 Actuals for June would be imported as Actuals and the remaining July thru December would be Forecast updated with the latest forecast data, which is already included in the sub-files). Months are listed left to right in columns not rows. Also, those sub-files can contain new parts that are required to be imported into the Master-File. My first solution was to use Power Query and import the Sub-files each month from a folder into the Master-file. Problem with that was, data from previous months would change in some of the Sub-Files and would over-write the data. (This data can't change once locked in). My second solution was to utilize a Unique ID for each record where I could easily identify new parts first and import that data by manually copying and pasting the data. Then sort the data using a match formula so the records in the Sub-file matched the Master-file and then manually copy and paste in the Actual and Forecast data. Some data was not correctly matched, so I started using XLOOKUP to import the data in the Actual and Forecast. Then, copy and paste as values. With 6 different files the table would at times over-write the data in the Actual forecast fields causing errors. Even after turning off auto table formula update option. Plus, this was very time consuming. Now I am starting over. I have some other ideas but if two heads are better than one then many heads are even better. I would love to hear your thoughts on how you would go about handling this process.
Shortcuts to favourite formats in Excel for Web
We're switching to excel for web more and more. In my desktop excel, i have 6-8 favourite formats stored as simple macros, and short cut buttons in the quick access toolbear It makes it really easy to tidy up worksheets. Is there a way to achieve the same within excel for web? I know i can't add macros, but quick access to favourite formats makes life much easier
Get spot prices for Gold and Silver using Stock converter
Hello, I am getting prices nicely for any currency using the quotation EUR/USD, Now if I do the same for XAU/USD or XAG/USD it doesnt work. I found out that i can input Gold or Silver but even then it chooses a stock instead of the spot price. TO get to that price i need to manually search in the data selector @SI0Y or @PL0Y. I need to be doing this via vba automoatically each day however. Can you help me out on how to get the spot prices for gold and silver directly and not doing manual searches? thx
Excel College Student SOS
Hey! College student here. I've been jumping through hoops trying to understand Excel. I'm not sure if Microsoft Excel has changed because this is my first experience with the whole ordeal. The homework given from my (ACG Excel class basically) has me following directions and I can't find the Smart Lookup tool in the Review tab??? There are so many features I cannot simply find in the Ribbon. Also, the Ribbon looks different. Not necessarily like the original. Someone please help me out of my misery.
Hvborfår tester Excel feil tall opp mot hverandre.
Jeg har i lengre tid avdekket og dokumentert en gjentagende feil i Microsoft Excel ved testing av tallsystemer opp mot faktiske lottotrekninger. Excel gir feilaktige resultater ved sammenligning av tall, selv når dataene er korrekt formatert og logikken bak testene er enkel. Dette er uakseptabelt fra et verktøy som profilerer seg som et presist og pålitelig regneark. Eksemplet gjelder: Testing av riktige tall i en gitt rekke mot tall fra offisielle trekninger. Antall treff rapporteres feil av Excel, og resultatet samsvarer ikke med manuell kontroll eller testing i andre systemer (eks. Python). Formatet på tallene er korrekt, og ingen spesielle desimaltall, flyttallsfeil eller tekstdata er involvert. Finner heller ikke en formel/kode som passer inn. Får feil på feil. Har nåen andre opplevet det samme. BMA
Newbie Question in Excel Formula's
I am creating a Excel sheet to calculate my company holidays over the annual period, and want it to calculate how many staff are off in any one day. So I want it to calculate FD, HD, UL so I know how many people are away from the business on a particular day. I have tried the help topics, but cant figure it out. PLEASE HELP! FD = 1 person paid for 1 whole day annual leave HD = 1 person paid for 1 half day annual leave UL = 1 person unpaid for 1 whole day unpaid leave RD = is not counted, but shown for planning purposes. Any help much appreciate, and thank you in advance.
