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Allan Fiddler
Aug 03, 2018Copper Contributor
Selecting a text from a range of cells
In D3:D10 there is one cell that has a text value, the remaining are empty or have a hyphen. In D11 I want to find and enter the text value that appears in the range, D3:D10. Am trying nested IF ...
John Jairo Vergara Domínguez
Aug 03, 2018Brass Contributor
Hi, Allan!
You could try:
=LOOKUP(2,1/ISTEXT(D3:D10)/(D3:D10<>"-"),D3:D10)
Blessings!
- Allan FiddlerAug 08, 2018Copper Contributor
John, this is excellent...it has produced what I'm looking for.
Now I am trying to understand the formula so that I can learn what is going on! Can you give me a clue?
Allan