Charles wrote:
I have a spreadsheet with rows of employees and columns of months in
the year for five years. Each month is actually three columns
"Salary", "Hours", "%". There is only an entry when a salary
changes. I need to be at one "%" and look back down the row to find
the previous salary so that the percentage increase can be
calculated. How do I find that previous salary. You can assume the
hours are always less than 40 and the salary greater than 100. This
is an example of the spreadsheet:

1 A B C D E F G H I
J K L
2 Mth1 Mth2 Mth3
Mth4 3 Name Salary Hrs % Salary Hrs % Salary Hrs % Salary Hrs
% 4 Aa 500 39 550 39
5 Bb 600 35 695 35

Thanks

Charles

Hi Charles,

you can use this formula in G4 (the % cell for month2) and then copy across
the rows and also in the % cells of next months.

=IF(AND(E4<B4,B4<""),(E4-B4)/B4,"")

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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)

Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy