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Good morning, In need of a little bit of help. My current situation is I can't figure out a formula to highlight partial matches. In my current excel I gather information from a scan then I filter it out to give me the text I want. Now from there I want that filtered info to match another sheet that same text followed with text after. Due to privacy reason I cant share my excel sheet but will provided a similar example. So lets say column D is the filter info from my scan and my list is from column A (in real word list and filtered info are in 2 separate sheets but same book). on the top you can see a formula I have been trying but doesn't always work. I want both sides (or sheets to highlight when it happens).SolvedFatManFluffApr 20, 2025Brass Contributor88Views0likes9CommentsUtilizing Excel's turing capabilities to create Conway's 'Game of Life'
The Background It's been said with Lambda (and LET and a wealth of functions in 365) Excel has become 'turing-complete'. To quote the article linked below: "You can now, in principle, write any computation in the Excel formula language." https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/ The Challenge I thought it would be fun to create Conway's 'Game of Life' in Excel 365 to see how far I could push things. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia The rules are simple: A 'cell' has up to 8 adjacent cells (less if the cell is on the edge of the board). A 'neighbor' is a cell with a 1 while a 'dead' cell is empty. An 18x18 board Multiple iterations Bigger boards! more (it's relaxing to create new shapes and designs) The Approach My first thought was to use MAKEARRAY because I could use 'r' and 'c' coordinates and there would be no stacking. I devised a recursive function that worked for 1 iteration but failed on subsequent iterations because the use of TAKE/DROP was slowly shrinking the board! The revised approach is essentialy a recursive MAP that uses 3 arrays: the input matrix, the 'r' array (row numbers) and the 'c' array (column numbers). It's my way of using r/c without using MAKEARRAY. For Discussion I welcome any improvements to the existing function and any different approaches someone may have to creating Conway's Game of Life. Conway Lambda follows: Conway =LAMBDA(matrix, iterations, IF( iterations = 0, matrix, Conway( LET( height, ROWS(matrix), width, COLUMNS(matrix), r_arr, SEQUENCE(height) * SEQUENCE(, width, 1, 0), c_arr, SEQUENCE(height, , 1, 0) * SEQUENCE(, width), CheckNeighbors, LAMBDA(lattice, r, c, LET( RCx, LAMBDA(row, col, IFERROR(CHOOSECOLS(CHOOSEROWS(matrix, row), col), 0) ), N, RCx(r - 1, c), NE, RCx(r - 1, c + 1), E, RCx(r, c + 1), SE, RCx(r + 1, c + 1), S, RCx(r + 1, c), SW, RCx(r + 1, c - 1), W, RCx(r, c - 1), NW, RCx(r - 1, c - 1), compass, VSTACK(N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW), neighbors, SUM(compass), IF( AND(lattice = 0, neighbors = 3), 1, IF( AND(lattice = 1, OR(neighbors = 2, neighbors = 3)), 1, 0 ) ) ) ), MAP(matrix, r_arr, c_arr, CheckNeighbors) ), iterations - 1 ) ) )Patrick2788Apr 20, 2025Silver Contributor2KViews3likes16CommentsShift Work Calendar Year at Glance Template
I would like to use the Shift Work Calendar year at glance Template in Excel, but it is only built for 3 jobs. I need to edit for 7 or more jobs, but can't figure out how to do it. I'm sure it's a simple solution, but I'm new to this.Joha842Apr 19, 2025Copper Contributor53Views0likes2CommentsPivot by function and graphs.
Hi, I am trying to make my graph based on a pivot ny function to keep updated. As soon as I Add a new line in my table, the graph gets ruined. See attached document for example. Any clever solutions for using Pivot by and graphs? Best regards - GeirHogstad_RaadgivningApr 19, 2025Steel Contributor43Views0likes1CommentExcel search for files with asterisk or percentage is not working
Hi there Can you please add on the roadmap to have a common way to search files by adding asterisk or percentage? Don't make sense to not be possible such simple query with the standard syntax. Thanks Ricardoricardok1Apr 19, 2025Copper Contributor85Views0likes7CommentsSUMPRODUCT() Formula Query
Hello, I'm facing issue while using SUMPRODUCT(). I have 2 different table (TableX and TableY). TableX = Contains Department, Candidates and Joining Date TableY = Department, Candidates and New Column under which I want to populate the count Candidates who will join in specific month. Below formula is not working. Can someone please help on this ? =SUMPRODUCT((TableX[Department ID])=A2)*MONTH((TableX[Joining Date])=6) Table1: Table2:SolvedpalasubrApr 19, 2025Copper Contributor83Views0likes5CommentsPower Query Dropping Decimals with Accounting Format
I'm encountering what seems like a bug in Power Query. I have a table with data that contains numbers with more than 4 decimal places. When this data is in the Accounting format, Power Query is only picking up 4 decimal places, even if the Query is formatting the data is Decimal Number (Changed Type). When the data is formatted as Number, Power Query is able to pick up all decimal places (Some numbers have 10+ decimals) Is this normal behavior? I would like to use the Accounting format because it looks cleaner, but obviously I cannot sacrifice data accuracy. It is also very illogical to have a format labeled "Accounting" only hold 4 decimal places when passed through Power Query I did try restarting Excel multiple times, refreshing queries, the only thing that resolved it was changing the local format to Number.bradbeliveauApr 19, 2025Copper Contributor125Views0likes10CommentsFilter via checkboxes with multiple criteria
I want to make a feature/application matrix where you can choose features by clicking on a checkbox and the filter needs to show only the application where all the chosen (checked) are available. So instead of the inbuild header filter I want to choose by checking / unchecking the boxes . Example: Can some one tell me how to achieve this? (I prefer to have the features vertically and the application/platform horizontally but I think that's harder to achieve or I'm I wrong?)NikkiGaaApr 19, 2025Copper Contributor57Views0likes5CommentsExcel Data Model File Path Change
My boss created an Excel data model before I joined the company. He created the data model and queried the data from files within his personal drive. Now that I am here, he wants me to have access to these files and has moved them into a shared folder. The thing is, all of the queries now have the wrong file path. Is the only way to fix this to manually update the file path within the Source step of the power query editor? If there is an easier way, please let me know!CalebF22Apr 19, 2025Copper Contributor476Views0likes4CommentsAdding up column totals.
Hi, Trying to add up values in Column G2, G2772. Can't get autosum to work right. In cell 2773 I click "Autosum" and enter cell G2, G2772 and the value in G2773 comes up 0.00. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Someone please help. ThankscardsfaninmoApr 18, 2025Copper Contributor35Views0likes1Comment
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