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By: MS-Excel Tipps für Projektleiter

MS-Excel Tipps für Projektleiter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:34 +0000

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By: Charley

Charley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:04:52 +0000

The Weeknum function is not correct if your country uses the ISO8601: 2000 weeknumbersystem, like we do in Europe.
Today is week 4 for us. Excel’s weeknum returns week 5.

You can correct this, by using the following Formula:
=INT((B4-DATE(YEAR(B4-WEEKDAY(B4-1)+4),1,3)+WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(B4-WEEKDAY(B4-1)+4),1,3))+5)/7)
The date is in cell b4.
Found this on:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/weeknumber.htm

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:06:02 +0000

@Nichola… if you have values in a row instead of column, you can use HLOOKUP function in the same way

@Arti… That is sweet. Thank you

By: Arti

Arti — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:43:21 +0000

Hey… brilliant. I didn’t know about the CHOOSE function at all – I usually end up going with hidden lists combined with vlookup functions, or sumifs instead. Nice. I’ll find a way to use this at work.

First time commenter, btw.. thank you thank you, pat on my back. I’ve been going through all your older posts just to find gems like these that I might’ve missed. My search has not been in vain so far. Thanks for all the great work!

By: Nichola

Nichola — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:48:41 +0000

Thanks Chandoo. The thing is, the values are in one row (B3:B25). I have 200 rows of data that I need to seperately look at (find the highest value and it’s corresponding data). The highest value is not always going to be in the same column.
Thanks
Nichola

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:25:35 +0000

@Nichola… Welcome to PHD.

You can use MAX formula to find the largest value in a range of cells. You can mix this with Vlookup to find the value in adjacent cell like this.

Assuming the values are in the range A1:B20, with column having values and column B having related data, write the formula,

=vlookup(max(A1:A20),A1:B20,2,false)

Learn more about vlookup here: http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/11/19/vlookup-match-and-offset-explained-in-plain-english-spreadcheats/

By: Nichola

Nichola — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:35:13 +0000

Hi
I am looking for an easy formula to replace the If function. I need to find the highest number in a series then add the data in the column to the right. The IF function works for this, btu I can only add 7 points for it to check. I have around 20 data points. Can you help

Thanks
Nichola

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:53:03 +0000

Chandoo,
Just found this excellent blog, and have already incorporated a couple ideas into my work.
One small note on the example used in #7 – I believe it should be =REPT(”0″,5-LEN(zipcode)) & zipcode and not
=zipcode & REPT(”0″,5-LEN(zipcode)) as you want to pad the start of the string and not the end.

thanks again.

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Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:42:18 +0000

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By: Varun

Varun — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:45:31 +0000

@Chandoo.

Thanks for the help mate. With a little modification , it worked.

=IF(J423″”,LEN(J423)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(J423,”,”,”"))+1,0)

However, as my motive is to count the no. of words, it’ll give an extra count,if a comma is inserted at the end.

Thanks again.Will be bugging in the future as n when new issues will pop.