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CaitlynEXCEL
Copper Contributor
Jul 30, 2022

How to subtract from the same user

I know I can just do something like =E4-B6 but is there a way for it to look up by the User ID and subtract the quantities with matching Users?    
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SergeiBaklan's avatar
SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Jul 30, 2022

CaitlynEXCEL 

It very depends on which Excel version/platform you are. As variant

=MID( D4,FIND("[", D4)+1, LEN(D4) - FIND("[", D4)-1  ) -
  SUMPRODUCT( ( LEFT( $A$4:$A$6, FIND(" ", $A$4:$A$6) ) = LEFT(D4, FIND(" ",D4) ) ) *
              ( MID( $A$4:$A$6,FIND("[", $A$4:$A$6)+1, LEN( $A$4:$A$6) - FIND("[", $A$4:$A$6)-1  ) ) )

but on Excel 365 it could be done much easier.

  • PeterBartholomew1's avatar
    PeterBartholomew1
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 30, 2022

    Note: This solution is limited by the requirement that each user ID should occur the same number of times in each table and it requires a very up-to-date version of 365.

     

    WorksheetFormula
= LET(
  stacked,   VSTACK(table1,table2),
  sortedVal, DROP(SORT(stacked),,1),
  paired,    WRAPROWS(sortedVal,2),
  BYROW(paired, Diffλ));

Diffλ
= LAMBDA(pair, SUM({-1,1}*pair));

     

    It first stacks the two tables;

    then it sorts on User ID but only retains the associated values as a single column;

    next it then uses WRAPROWS to create the two columns of corresponding values;

    finally it differences the two columns using a Lambda function. 

    In this instance I returned the IDs with a distinct formula

     

    = SORT(TEXTBEFORE(TAKE(table1,,1), "["))

     

    Sorry Sergei, this wasn't specifically addressed to you. I simply used your workbook as the starting point

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