Forum Discussion

Tbear_beardsley's avatar
Tbear_beardsley
Copper Contributor
Jul 17, 2021
Solved

Range changing in increments

I need some help. I’m summarising data from one sheet into another, the amount of data points is in the thousands. In my summary sheet I’m summarising around 250 data rows into one row on a seperate sheet and when I drag it down the column to summarise the next range, it doesn’t follow it. For example I want to summarise data from B2:B138, such as SUM(B2:B138). When I go down a column the formula then changes to be SUM(B3:B139) rather then being SUM(B139:B275) where the ranges changes by the whole 137 points. I don’t want to re type it as I have a good 50 of these to do. I’m sorry if it’s hard to understand I’m new to excel and suck as explaining it, but for anyone who gets what I’m trying to say, any help would be amazing
BI & Data Analysis
excel
Formulas and Functions
  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    HansVogelaar
    Jul 17, 2021

    Tbear_beardsley 

    Let's say the formula =SUM(DataSheet!B2:B138) is in cell D2 of the summary sheet.

    Change it to

     

    =SUM(OFFSET(DataSheet!$B$2:$B$138, 137*(ROW()-2), 0))

     

    or

     

    =SUM(INDEX(DataSheet!B:B,137*(ROW()-2)+2):INDEX(DataSheet!B:B,137*(ROW()-2)+138))

     

    Then fill down.

5 Replies

  • PeterBartholomew1's avatar
    PeterBartholomew1
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 17, 2021

    Tbear_beardsley 

    You didn't state what version of Excel you use so I held back because all my work is specific to Excel 365 and sometime beta channel only.  It is macro-enabled because it contains VBA utility to upload Lambda functions which are of interest to me but not generally usable.  The LET functions work with most Excel 365 installations.

    The formula that is most likely to be usable is

    = LET(
  array,  INDEX(data, SEQUENCE(10,Blocksize)),
  vector, SEQUENCE(Blocksize,,,0),
  MMULT(array, vector))

    and least likely

    = SUMROWSλ(
      PIVOTλ(data, blocksize)
   )
  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    HansVogelaar
    MVP
    Jul 17, 2021

    Tbear_beardsley 

    Let's say the formula =SUM(DataSheet!B2:B138) is in cell D2 of the summary sheet.

    Change it to

     

    =SUM(OFFSET(DataSheet!$B$2:$B$138, 137*(ROW()-2), 0))

     

    or

     

    =SUM(INDEX(DataSheet!B:B,137*(ROW()-2)+2):INDEX(DataSheet!B:B,137*(ROW()-2)+138))

     

    Then fill down.

    • Tbear_beardsley's avatar
      Tbear_beardsley
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 17, 2021
      Perfect. Can you explain the row situation. And would it be similar if I wanted to do the same along the columns for data going across?
      • Tbear_beardsley's avatar
        Tbear_beardsley
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 17, 2021
        Never mind found out I just have to take the $ off the B but leave it on the number

Resources