View Single Post
  #1   Report Post  
mikeyts
 
Posts: n/a
Default Column searching problem

I have a worksheet called "net" containing the following:

NETWORK AVG MIN MAX STD SAMPLES
ABC 17.17 16.26 17.71 0.4469 19
CBS 12.99 11.69 14.56 0.6524 30
NBC 15.39 14.08 16.70 0.7323 38
NBC* 15.12 14.08 15.99 0.4910 31
Fox 10.63 9.07 12.09 0.9374 8
HBO 10.94 9.07 13.22 1.2507 19
Showtime 11.52 6.84 13.23 1.9017 11
HDNet 18.14 14.22 18.85 1.1619 14
HDNet* 18.45 18.13 18.85 0.2847 13
HDNet-Movies 18.08 16.54 18.49 0.7583 6
HDNet-Movies* 18.39 18.33 18.49 0.0642 5
Discovery 17.49 15.27 18.39 1.4963 4
ESPN 18.59 17.98 18.93 0.4508 4
TNT 18.22 17.97 18.37 0.1659 5

In the same file, I have a sheet called "series" which looks like this:

NETWORK SERIES AVG MIN MAX STD SAMPLES DEL
STD
ABC Boston Legal 17.03 16.26 17.71 0.5963 5
-0.3201
ABC Lost 17.15 16.90 17.44 0.2265 4
-0.0527
ABC NYPD Blue 17.03 16.70 17.97 0.4982 6
-0.3119
CBS CSI: CSI 12.78 12.41 13.12 0.2679 7
12.7843
CBS CSI: Miami 12.96 12.17 13.36 0.4429 6
12.9633
CBS CSI: NY 13.04 12.41 13.36 0.5485 3
13.0433
CBS Cold Case 13.78 13.06 14.56 0.5400 5
13.7800
CBS Without A Trace 12.59 11.69 13.84 0.7302 8
12.5875
HBO CarnivĂ*le 10.49 10.31 10.74 0.2250 3
10.4867
HDNet Smallville 18.40 18.13 18.85 0.2800 9
18.3967
NBC Crossing Jordan 15.43 15.03 15.99 0.4996 3
15.4300
NBC ER 15.55 15.27 15.99 0.3533 6
15.5500
NBC Las Vegas 16.65 16.46 16.70 0.1073 5
16.6520
NBC Law & Order 15.50 14.08 18.29 1.3278 7
15.4971
NBC Law & Order: SVU 14.91 14.32 15.51 0.4378 7
14.9129
NBC Law & Order: CI 16.44 16.23 16.64 0.2899 2
16.4350
NBC Medical Investigation 15.03 14.79 15.27 0.3394 2
15.0300

Both of these tables are in the upper lefthand corner of the sheet, labels
starting at $A$1, first row of data starting with $A$2.

In the "DEL STD" column of the "series" sheet is the following formula:


=((C2-IF(net!$A$2:$A$15=A2,net!$B$2:$B$15))/IF(net!$A$2:$A$15=A2,net!$E$2:$E$15,1))

This is trying to extract the values from the "net" sheet in columns B and E
on the row where the value in column A is the same as it is on the current
row of "series". The term:

IF(net!$A$2:$A$15=A2,net!$B$2:$B$15)

works perfectly for the first 3 rows of data in "series" (2:4), but not for
any of the others. I tried copying the cell containing "CBS" on "net" and
pasting it into the cells in column A with no results. (I assume that
whatever's wrong with the first call to IF is wrong with the second).

What am I doing wrong???