Determine weekday after factoring in user specified holidays
Given a certain beginning date and specified number of days, one may want to determine the ending date (beginning date plus number of days). When determining the ending date, the following two cases...
View ArticleBlanks appearing in source data not to appear in Data validation list
Blanks appearing in the source of a data validation list should not appear in the validation drop down. The question and instructions are very clearly mentioned in this workbook.
View ArticleProgrammatically transfer data from master sheet to sub sheets with conditions
A user inputs raw material purchase data in a master sheet. This data is entered by date and vendor. One may want to view individual vendor sheets at a monthly level. In the attached file, i have...
View ArticleDynamically transpose data after ignoring blank cells
In range A7:A15, assume the following values A, S , empty cell, empty cell, R, A, W, A, SD. Starting from cell B17, transpose data to the right (ignoring the blank cells). Therefore, in range...
View ArticleGenerate a list of all tabs names without using VBA
Assume an MS Excel file has 4 worksheets - Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3 and Sheet4. Insert a sheet before Sheet1 and name that tab as Summary. On the Summary tab, one may want to generate a list of all...
View ArticleCompare value of one cell with value of next visible cell of a filtered range
Assume data in range B4:B18 (heading is in cell B3). To compare the value in the current row with the value in the row below, one may enter the following formula in cell C4 and copy down =B4=B5 True's...
View ArticleDynamically extract unique values from a filtered range
Data in a two column database (A3:B13) can be Auto filtered on column A with one or many conditions. Data in column B will be numbers only (positive, negative or 0's) - no text values. After filtering...
View ArticleLOOKUP unique data from multiple columns where search string appears multiple...
In a list with multiple occurrences, the VLOOKUP() function in Excel will only return the first occurrence of the string being searched. Furthermore, the VLOOKUP() function returns data from one...
View ArticleGenerate a list of missing invoice numbers
In a range of cells, assume there is a list of invoices raised during a certain period. Since adequate care was not taken to number the invoices sequentially, there are missing invoice numbers in the...
View ArticleShow granular as well as total figures on the Summary sheet
Assume there is data for complaints received and complaints resolved for two years - 2009 and 2010 for some regions regions. Each Region has its own worksheet. There are three headings on each sheet...
View ArticleSum the largest 5 of the last 10 numbers in a row ignoring blanks
Assume a single row of data with numbers and blanks appearing at random intervals. The objective is to sum the largest 5 of last 10 numbers in that row. Solving this problem entails multiple steps:...
View ArticleReturn best possible fit, to manually entered dimensions, with the intent to...
Refer to a simple 5 column representative inventory dataset of a Glass manufacturer: Model Length (MM) Wide (MM) Thk (MM) CAT HX9-G-ARD 1071 273 3.5 A MYP-G-3RD 580 535 3.2 B EPO-G-3RD 580 535 3.2 A...
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