In the 15th session of Chandoo.org podcast, lets answer some of your burning Excel questions.
What is in this session?
Around last week, I invited you to ask me anything. More than 150 people responded to this call and sent in their questions. Since answering all the questions is not possible, I handpicked roughly 10 questions to answer in this episode of Chandoo.org podcast.
In this podcast, you will learn,
- How to fill blank cells with data from above
- How to work with Big data in Excel
- How to combine data from multiple sources & analyze it in Excel
- How I am managing my life after starting Chandoo.org
- How to create and distribute stand-alone Excel products
- How to control a model railroad set using Excel VBA (not fully answered)
- How to control a pivot report with a form control or data validation drop-down
- How to overcome Excel obsession
- How to calculate average of 4 successive numbers
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Links & Resources mentioned in this session:
Filling blank cells with values from above:
Here is an article that explains the process in detail.
Controlling pivot tables with form controls + VBA
Here is a detailed tutorial explaining the process.
Calculating average of 4 successive numbers
Here is an example file with solution for this problem.
Formulas & Tricks mentioned in this podcast:
Resources for working with big data / multiple data sets:
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- Download Power Pivot
- Download Power Query
Transcript of this session:
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13 Responses to “Data Validation using an Unsorted column with Duplicate Entries as a Source List”
Pivot Table will involve manual intervention; hence I prefer to use the 'countif remove duplicate trick' along with 'text sorting formula trick; then using the offset with len to name the final range for validation.
if using the pivot table, set the sort to Ascending, so the list in the validation cell comes back alphabetically.
Hui: Brillant neat idea.
Vipul: I am intrigued by what you are saying. Please is it possible to show us how it can be done, because as u said Hui's method requires user intervention.
Thks to PHD and all
K
Table names dont work directly inside Data validation.
You will have to define a name and point it to the table name and then use the name inside validation
Eg MyClient : Refers to :=Table1[Client]
And then in the list validation say = MyClient
Kieranz,
Pls download the sample here http://cid-e98339d969073094.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/data-validation-unsorted-list-example.xls
Off course there are many other ways of doing the same and integrating the formulae in multiple columns into one.
Pls refer to column FGHI in that file. Cell G4 is where my validation is.
Vipul:
Many thks, will study it latter.
Rgds
K
[...] to chandoo for the idea of getting unique list using Pivot tables. What we do is that create a pivot table [...]
@Vipul:
Thanks, that was awesome! 🙂
@Playercharlie Happy to hear that 🙂
Great contribution, Hui. Solved a problem of many years!
Thanks to you, A LOT
Hi Hui,
Greeting
hope you are doing well.
I'm interested to send you a private vba excel file which i need to show detail of pivot in new workbook instead of showing in same workbook as new sheet.
Please contact me on muhammed.ye@gmail.com
Best Regards