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- ajmal_pottekattil_yoousufFeb 11, 2025Iron Contributor82Views1like7Comments
Sorting dates in Excel from oldest to newest is not working
Hi all, I would like to sort a date series in Excel, formatted as Mon Feb. 10, 2025 08:59 AM, from oldest to newest, but I can’t get it to work. Every week, I have to download a list from a program that uses this date format (see screenshot). I want to sort it in order from oldest to newest, but when I try to do so, the dates get mixed up. Downloaded list: 2. I select the cells and want to order it from old to new, then it gives me this: Does anybody has a solution for this? Thanks so much in advance! ArianneArianneCFeb 11, 2025Occasional Reader38Views0likes3CommentsTimesheet Tracker Help with INDEX/COUNT/SUM functions or alternative
Hi! I have inherited a series of timesheet trackers that I'm hoping to identify a formula or solution to easily quantify the PTO classifications that an individual employee took throughout a year. I have uploaded a scrubbed example of the workbook in question with a small sample of the biweekly timesheets that the previous coordinator used, as well as some screenshots at the very bottom. The MASTER worksheet is one that I created before I ran into a whole slew of errors ranging from #SPILL to #REF to #ERROR before deciding to take it to the forums. Ideally, I need a formula that will: Match the employee name in D2:D40 of the "MASTER" worksheet with those in B6:B44 in each of the sheets that follow (the scrubbed example has 4, but the full workbook has 26, which aligns with the "Sheet Index" in A2:A27 of the "MASTER" worksheet. Count occurrences of each PTO classification (from E1:M1 in the MASTER worksheet) referenced in those sheets so that I can capture how many times each matched employee took "HOL"; "PER"; etc. There are some discrepancies in the references that my predecessor noted in the cells, such as "-4" to note a half-day. Any help/guidance on this would be vastly appreciated as I have 26 worksheets to quantify for the last 3 years for compliance and really trying to avoid doing it manually. I'm also open to changing the format/layout of the "MASTER" worksheet to best approach a solution as well. Let me know if you have any questions! Many thanks in advance. Example screenshots:tshprdFeb 11, 2025Occasional Reader36Views0likes2CommentsSUMIF Problem
I’m trying to use excel to keep an accurate count of inventory for our small church bookstore (non-profit). I decided to use UPC codes on my spreadsheet so that when I scan an item that is being sold the Product name, selling price would automatically populate my spread sheet from a VLOOKUP table. It took some work but that seems to be working. Now I’m trying to have the worksheet automatically up-date our current stock amounts when an item is sold or we buy new/additional items for the bookstore. I’ve set up a separate tab called IN-OUT Inventory where I record the quantity of items sold or added to the inventory. When I scan a UPC code and it pulls over the Product name and selling price and I enter either a negative number for a sale or a positive number for addition to inventory. My main tab is called Current Inventory Sheet and I’ve placed a column at the end of that spreadsheet called Beg. Stock to represent the stock we are starting out with for this year. In the Current Bookstore Inventory tab the “Total Stock” column I need it to add in the beginning stock and then search for the UPC code on the In-Out Inventory sheet. If there is a match then add or subtract that number to reflect the current stock. I thought I had this working with a SUMIF coding but it appears that it won’t add or subtract additional transactions when there is a UPC code recorded more than one time on the IN-OUT sheet. So if I start out with 5 widgets and sell 2 it records total stock as 3; however, if I then receive 20 widgets and/or even sell 2 more it doesn’t recognize that transaction. Any help anyone could provide is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Here’s the link to the document: Church Bookstore Inventory Doc.xlsxMariePFeb 11, 2025Occasional Reader22Views0likes4CommentsRepeat list of items for each month in table
Hi all I am looking to have an automatic repeating list of items that repeats based on the amount of months in a table. If however a month is mentioned in the list of items, the item will only repeat for that month only and not all the months in the table. Please see my example spreadsheet with the desired output, which should make it clear. I just need a formula to make this output table. I guess LET would be possible, but can anyone help please? Thank you Mattmatt0020190Feb 11, 2025Brass Contributor83Views0likes7CommentsAutomatic Rolling 12 Month List
Hi all I've looked first but nothing seems to give me what I am looking for. Hope you can help! I'm simply looking for a rolling 12 months list that automatically updates based on the current date. The financial year starts in March. An example below based on today's date being in February 2025: Column A January 26 February 25 March 25 April 25 May 25 June 25 July 25 August 25 September 25 October 25 November 25 December 25 The idea being that once the month has passed, February 25 would become February 26 in the list and so on. Can this be done with formula based on the today() date? Thank you for any helpSolvedmatt0020190Feb 10, 2025Brass Contributor82Views0likes6CommentsTwo way sum lookup (by month & name)
Hi all I am trying to perform a two way lookup from a source table. Basically I have names of colleagues with a number of days per week recorded. I want to then in another table using a formula sum the total amount of days by colleague for each month. I tried using SUMIFS, but it throws a VALUE error as I think the SUM range is not accepted across multiple columns/rows. Any ideas? I attach a sample spreadsheet. Thank you in advancematt0020190Feb 10, 2025Brass Contributor24Views0likes3CommentsIf you thought Spills killed CSE, read this post
I build financial models. All financial models I have ever seen do the same thing - they show one reporting date per column. Every next reporting period evolves from the previous financial close. That is, the calculation order in such models is strictly A1 to An, B1 to Bn, ... N1 to Nn. There may at times arise the need to perform complex calculations that produce more than one result. Today, we can (program those in Lambdas and) spill the outputs across multiple rows (within the same column). Alas, Excel's performance resizing Spills is absolutely atrocious. Deploy such a formula across the columns of your model and you can literally watch the pixels set. One column at a time. Things settle after the initial run. There is then no need to resize ever again. Just so long as the calculation works out alright. Unfortunately, stuff happenz. And when that calculation errors out, you are back to watching pixels set as Excel replaces your multiple result rows with one row of #VALUE!. Once you fix that error, well, then you are back in for another treat of umpteen resize passes... Such a spreadsheet is frankly unusable. Now, I noticed with some astonishment that there is a simple fix for this nonsense: Just enter your spill formula with Control-Shift-Enter to morph it into an array formula. Sure, we all hate those. But all the hassle around editing is a price worth paying for Excel suddenly attaining Warp speed... Post Scriptum: There is another "solution" to this problem. Instead of performing the calculation once to spill 5 results, perform the same calculation 5 times over and return 1 result each time. If you think this is awful, you are of course correct. But ... to my amazement, doing this easily beats the Spill (no surprise - even using an Abacus probably will) and there was no telling a difference to CSE. I was baffled. Then I realized what Excel got up to. Excel understands that these 5 calculations are independent of one another and will happily parallelize them across multiple CPU cores. So, while this insane solution hammers the CPU, the nature of a financial model is such that it mostly cannot exercise more than one core anyway (it cannot be multi-threaded), such that on the occasion that we are being stupid, there are plenty of cores idling around that can bail us out... :) Post Post Scriptum: If for some reason you do not wish to use CSE, make absolutely sure that when stuff happenz your Spill returns 5 bad results. That avoids Excel having to resize that range when an error occurs.ecovonreinFeb 10, 2025Iron Contributor71Views0likes4CommentsCheckboxes not automatically updating using COUNTIF
Hey, all, I'm using the following function to set the checkbox boolean of a cell based on the amount of other cells checked: In cell A1: =IF(COUNTIF(A2:A3=2,TRUE),TRUE,FALSE) The formula works, but only when I manually click in and out of the A1 cell. Is there a way to have the cell automatically update like it would in Google Sheets? Using Excel for web build 16.0.18602.42306 here. Appreciate the help!bramleyasFeb 10, 2025Copper Contributor125Views0likes5Comments
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