Today I am asking you a tricky formula question. This is asked by Ionel on the Introduction to VLOOKUP, OFFSET & MATCH Formulas post.
The question is,
I have data in three columns: A,B,C and I want to get the average of the closest two values out of three in each row. Could you help me with a formula for this?
Now, how would you go about it?
What does closest of two mean?
We can assume that close-ness is nothing but distance between 2 numbers on numeric scale. So 3 is closer to 2 and 4 compared to 1 or 5.
Your challenge:
Assuming your data is in A2:C10, what formula will you write in D2:D10 to solve this?
Go ahead and get some coffee and get thinking.
Want to cop-out?
I have posted one solution in the next comment. You can see how I went about solving it.
One Response to “Easily Convert JSON to Excel – Step by Step Tutorial”
Great guide! You mentioned that "Power Query in Excel offers a quick, easy and straightforward way to convert JSON to Excel." This is very true for simple structures. For those dealing with deeply nested JSON that Power Query struggles with, I've found a few tips helpful: 1) Flatten the JSON structure before importing if possible, 2) Use Python for more complex transformations as you suggested.