2011 has been the most awesome year since we started Chandoo.org.
Without doubt, the credit goes to our community – that is you.
I feel very fortunate to have you in our community. You inspire me to learn & share. I know I said this several times, but everytime, I feel like I have not done enough. Thank you so very much.
Apart from our little community, I feel thankful to many others, who have helped me through out 2011 to make you awesome in Excel. In this post, I am highlighting them & expressing my gratitude.
People who helped me in 2011:
Teachers & Gurus:
Running a business, website & family requires a lot of motivation, fresh ideas & learning. Thanks to several wonderful teachers & inspiring individuals who gave me the strength I need this year.
Excel & Visualization Teachers:
Jon Peltier, Dick Kusleika, Debra Dalgleish, Mike Alexandar, Daniel Ferry, Stephen Few, Jorge Camoes, Robert Mundigl, Hui, Jimmy, Paresh, Gregory, Francis, Vijay and many more.
Business & Motivation
Pamela Slim, Andy Sernovitz, Seth Godin, Darren Rowse, Yaro Starak, JD Roth, Avinash, Brandon Pearce, Alok, Pat and many more.
Technology
Authors
This year, I had the fortune of reading several inspiring, life changing books. Thank you so much to these wonderful authors.
- Napolean Hill Think & Grow Rich
- Jim Collins Good to Great
- Tim Ferris 4 Hour Workweek
- Thomas Stanley & William Danko Millionaire Next Door
- Michael Gerber E-myth Revisited
- John Walkenbach Excel 2010 Power Programming & Excel 2010 Bible
- Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy
And many other…
Note: All the book links to Amazon are affiliate links. That means, if you purchase something after clicking on them, I get a few cents 🙂
Affiliates & Partners
To make Chandoo.org successful, I collaborate with many great minds in this industry. These are remarkable people who enjoy my success as much they enjoy theirs’. Some of these remarkable people are,
Dashboard Spy, Fabrice Rimlinger, Kevin Lehrbass, Hui, Paramdeep Singh, Danielle Stein Fairhurst, Jimmy Pena, Francis Hayes, Philip Pracht, Ken Puls, and many more.
Special thanks to Guru & IIPD team in Maldives, SHRI Academy in Singapore for helping me in my international workshops. Also, Thanks to Prof. Henrik from Aalborg University (Denmark) for having his entire class sign-up for Excel School. Thanks to ActiKnow consulting for helping me with some of the consulting work.
Customers & Readers
This year, more than 4,000 of you blessed me with your product purchases from Chandoo.org. More than 34,000 of you are now part of our RSS / Newsletter community. Many more continue to join us each day. Thank you so much for inviting me in to your life & taking time to learn from me.
I am also thankful to our Excel forum members. This year, many more of you have become regulars and shared your knowledge with all of us. Fred, Narayank, Hui, Vijay, Luke, asa, SirBJ, oldchippy, prasaddn, Indian & many others continue to be active and selfless. Thank you.
Our Staff
I could not have many of the things I did this year with out help of my lovely staff. Thanks to,
- Ravindra: for helping with various training enrollments, emails & customer service
- Vijay: for teaching VBA
- Sameer: for answering student doubts in training programs
- Chittibadrayya: for taking care of all the book-keeping & accounting aspect of our business
Websites & Companies that helped me in 2011
I am thankful to Microsoft for making Excel so awesome.
I am also thankful to,
Email & Productivity: Google, iPhone
Website, Hosting & E-commerce: WordPress, GoDaddy, Wishlist Member, Amazon, PayPal, E-Junkie, 2Checkout, EBS
Community & Connection: Twitter, Facebook, Skydrive
Software: Paint.NET, Mozy, Notepad ++, Camtasia, Skype
There are many other software, companies and websites that help me every day. I am really thankful to each and every one of these.
Last but not least…,
Many thanks to my lovely family. With out you, none of this matters. Your love, laughter, kindness & support is invaluable.
PS: Here is one last Excel tip for this year. Open Excel, go to A1 and type,
=UPPER( MID(ADDRESS(1,2^4*3*11),2,2) & BIN2HEX(1010) & CHAR(DEGREES(ASIN(1))+20) & MID(ADDRESS(1,BIN2DEC(100110111)),2,2) & CHAR(REPT("1",3)) & CHAR(6^2+9^2) )
and press enter to see what I mean 🙂
24 Responses
I’d suggest simply using the subtotal function and filtering the data using the Win/Loss column. You get the same results and the formula is more comprehensible.
@John
That is one option.
There are times however when you want to see the whole data table or a filtered subset and still want to produce summary reports against an unfiltered field.
Is there a particular reason why you are using a comma and the unary (–) operator for the second array in the SUMPRODUCT formula? It seems to work the same if you were to string the arrays together using the asterisk (*). The advantage is that SUMPRODUCT treats the entire string of arrays as a single array.
@Mathew
Your correct, There is no difference.
I thought it may have been easier to explain this method.
Is there a way to do this on a large set of data? As in ~100,000 rows? When I try I get an error because the formula becomes too long. It says the max length of a formula is 8,192 characters. Excel 2010.
How do I incorporate a specific text within a cell for the second array. For instance, – -(C7:C13=”Apple”)
when I chose a specific text the formula does not work.
@RB
I am not sure what is the issue as if I use the sample data in the post the following work fine
Count:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)), –(C7:C13=”L”))
Sum:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)),(C7:C13=”L”)*(D7:D13))
You may want to check that there are no leading or trailing spaces in your list of Apples
I should have given a better explanation. Heres my situation. I have a column with cells filled with names like Column 1, Column 2, Pier 1, Pier 2, etc. If the cell just contained Pier and searched for that it works. But because it has other characters in the cell its not recognizing the pier. So how can I extract specific characters of a string of text in this formula?
Hopefully this was a better explanation
Hello-
This formula works pretty well for me except that it slow down excel and prevents some of my macros from working. I was wondering if there was a way to program this in VBA so that excel isn’t always trying to recalculate it. I would like to use a push of a button to get it to run then paste in a cell.
Thanks!
I am trying to sum filtered data in a column, but would want to ignore the negative values in the column. How to go about doing this?
@Akshay
Why not just add a filter to that column to only show the values greater than zero?
The negative values are required for reporting purposes, but their effect on the total is distorting the required output. Please advise.
@Akshay
I’d suggest making a post in the Chandoo.org Forums
http://forum.chandoo.org/
Attach a sample file to simplify the task
I have this working for counting and summing, however, I have a list and for the second array, I need a criteria. That is, I’m looking for b13:b200=”01.??.??” or =left((a1,2) or something like that. These types of criteria matches do not appear to work as I get a blank as a result.
Thanks!
@Bob
As your formula b13:b200=”01.??.??” looks like you are trying to check the first day of the month of the range
What about trying Day(B13:B200)=1
Hai Experts,
i understood this formula well and working fine in MS Excel 2013
but when the same am trying to place in google Spreadsheet it shows error as
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 2014, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
Can anyone please help me how would i get it done in Google Spread sheet
or is there any other formula as a substitute for this.
Thank you very much.
thanks for providing this.. but why does excel keeps on prompting Circular referencing in cell D3?
@Vivek
I don’t know
I just downloaded the file and it is working fine and not showing that error
Goto the Formulas, Calculation Options Tab and check that Calculation is set to Automatic
What version of Excel and Windows are you using ?
I know that this forum is for MS Excel, but I am trying to help someone who is working in Google Sheets. The below formula works in Excel but Google Sheets returns:
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 39000, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
This is the same problem asked by Srichirin above. Does anyone know if there is a formula for Google Sheets that will replicate what MS Excel does?
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET($C$6:$C$39500,ROW($C$6:$C$39500)-MIN(ROW($C$6:$C$39500)),,1)),- -($C$6:$C$39500=H1),($D$6:$D$39500))
Trying to find a SUMPRODUCT formula that counts the word Closed by date for the last 7 days in a filtered list.
=COUNTIF(M:M,”>”&TODAY()-7) works ok for unfiltered count Column M contains Closure dates (blank if open) and Column L is Status Open or Closed
@ Terry
Please ask the question at the Chandoo.org Forums
https://chandoo.org/forum/
Please attach a sample file to ensure a quicker more accurate answer
I used this formula and worked like a charm! But, now I’ve been requested to use it but adding not one but two criteria in the same formula. For instance the sum I was doing added negative and positive numbers. I’ve been asked to use the exact same formula but adding that only positive numbers were considered… any idea on how to do this?
How exactly do you do sum filtered cells when two criteria are need not just one?
Thank you so much brother literally I have been struggling since morning to get the sum of the filtered category, however, after reading your blog attentively i got my solution, so thanks a lot once again.