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Gamer85308
May 17, 2023Copper Contributor
Need to alter a formula to dynamically look for data in a column based on month selected
Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I am using Office 365. I have this formula which works well but I need to improve it: =IFERROR(CHOOSECOLS(FILTER(Data!B5:T144,(Data!D5:D144=1)*(Data!I5...
- May 18, 2023I still don't get what/why you are doing this. The "offset" I put in just as a place holder. so if you want it to always point to 'Apr' column then maybe use Match(). or you can base it on the Month in cell D4.
You can use LET() to make it easier if you want so then you 'define' offset in the let statement and then use it in the rest. I am not claiming the following Match is the right value for the offset, just an idea for you to work with:
=LET(offset, Match(text(edate(today(),-1),"Mmm"),Data!G4:T4,0),
IFERROR(CHOOSECOLS(FILTER(Data!B5:T144,(Data!D5:D144=1)*(CHOOSECOLS(Data!G5:T144,0+offset)<40000)*(CHOOSECOLS(Data!G5:T144,1+offset)<40000)*(CHOOSECOLS(Data!G5:T144,2+offset)<40000)*(CHOOSECOLS(Data!G5:T144,3+offset)<40000),""),1,4,5,8,9,10,11),"No accounts"))
mtarler
May 19, 2023Silver Contributor
Yes, LET is VERY powerful and VERY useful. Definitely learn LET and then learn LAMBDA and change this to be a LAMBDA function so in each cell you can something easy like =MyFunction()
BTW, in hindsight the name "offset" was probably a poor choice by me since it is a built in Excel function name already.
BTW, in hindsight the name "offset" was probably a poor choice by me since it is a built in Excel function name already.
Gamer85308
May 19, 2023Copper Contributor
Those are good ideas and I will pursue them. FYI - I plugged your Let formula into my sheet and it worked! Thanks for all your help