Return a list based on a +/- of a cell value
Hi Ken,
Thank you for your input!
" wrote:
Tammy
I believe that for Rick's LOOKUP formula to work your cities need to
remain in alphabetic order.
With the city of interest in D1, the list of cities in column A, the
populations in column B, and the following formula in column C, I get
results that should allow you to use an Autofilter to get a list of
cities that meet your criteria.
=IF(ABS(B2-VLOOKUP($D$1,$A$2:$B$13,2,FALSE))<500000,1,0)
The FALSE argument will necessitate an exact match of your city with
one in the list. If you use your city column as a validation list for
the city in D1 and keep your cities in alphabetic order it is
unnecessary.
Good luck.
Ken
Norfolk, Va
On Feb 12, 3:15 pm, Tammy wrote:
Gosh, Rick, thanks so much for hanging in there with me.
The last row where a city name is located *is* row 526 (populations end in
the same row). I tried the formula listed below, but received the same
results as before.
Here is some new data to use as a reference (I sorted the data Z-A on the
population column so that you could *see* the results we should get :
STATEFP ANPSADPI TOTPOP Search City
36 New York city 7,322,564 Philadelphia city
6 Los Angeles city 3,485,398
17 Chicago city 2,783,726
48 Houston city 1,630,672
42 Philadelphia city 1,585,577
6 San Diego city 1,110,549
26 Detroit city 1,027,974
48 Dallas city 1,006,831
4 Phoenix city 983,403
48 San Antonio city 935,927
6 San Jose city 782,225
24 Baltimore city 736,014
In the results, after filtering for "1" we should see only the following:
48 Houston city 1,630,672
42 Philadelphia city 1,585,577
6 San Diego city 1,110,549
26 Detroit city 1,027,974
48 Dallas city 1,006,831
Since we were searching for cities with populations +/- 500,000 of
Philadelphia city population (sorry, I did change the city reference on you)
- only those cities that had a population between 1,085,577 and 2,085,577
should display.
Does this help? What more can I provide?
thanks thanks thanks!
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:
Try the formula again, but this time change the 526 to the exact last row
that data there is a city name in (I mistakenly told you that the last row
in the range could be any number greater than the last row with data...
LOOKUP appears to be more sensitive than that). IF this is what you already
have done, then try this formula instead...
=IF(ABS(C2-LOOKUP(D$2&"*",B$2:B$526,C$2:C$526))<=500000,1,0)
It will ignore an trailing spaces that you may have attached to your city
names. If that doesn't work, then post some *real* example data from your
worksheet (I notice that your original sample population data seems to be in
a different range than what you originally posted... possibly the problem
might be we are working with different data).
--
Rick (MVP - Excel)
"Tammy" wrote in message
...
Hi Rick,
Thanks, again, for your help!
I pasted and copied your formula as is (no tweaking this time), however am
still getting inaccurate results. (so sorry about this).
The cities and populations in my results for "1" have populations between
12,818 - 516,259
and the results for the "0" populations are between 574,283 - 7,322,564
The results, after filtering for "1", should display only cities with a
population greater than or equal to 1 million and less than or equal to 2
million.
(between 1 and 2 million:
1,500,000 (Birmingham population) - 500,000 = 1,000,000
AND
1,500,000 (Birmingham population) + 500,000 = 2,000,000).
Any other suggestions? Thanks so much!
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:
The C3 was supposed to have been C2 (with no $ signs). Using your latest
post, put this formula on Row 2 somewhere and copy it down...
=IF(ABS(C2-LOOKUP(D$2,B$2:B$526,C$2:C$526))<500000,1,0)
--
Rick (MVP - Excel)
"Tammy" wrote in message
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Hi Rick,
Thanks so much for your response!
This will be great, if I can get it to work. I keep coming up with all
zeros, so i'm doing something wrong. I did "tweak" the formula to fit
my
data.
Here is what i have entered:
=IF(ABS($C$399-LOOKUP(D$2,B$2:B$526,C$2:C$526))<500000,1,0)
**I assumed your "C3" in the formula represented where "Birmingham
city"
was
located in my example below. I changed C3 to the actual cell that
contained
that city name - I also changed it to an absolute value because the
formula
changed as it was copied down (c3, c4, c5, etc.) if I didn't use an
absolute.
If that was wrong, and C3 should be a relative reference, or actually
represents something else, please let me know.
**I changed the lookup range to the actual data range.
**I changed the "less than" value to 500,000 (I used 100,000 yesterday
to
keep things related to the data I submitted.)
Assuming Birmingham's population is 1,500,000, the lookup should return
a
true value of "1" if another city's population falls between 1,000,000
and
2,000,000.
(+/- 500,000 of Birmingham's population)
When I copy this down, I get all zeros - there are some cities that
fall
within the 1-2 million range.
The formula looks like it looks up the value in D2 in the range
B2:B526.
The
population in C2:C526 is used for the "less than" value(?). One thing I
can't
figure out from by looking at the formula, where does it take into
account
the value of Birmingham's population and search for the +/- 500,000?
Should
there be another nested IF function to represent the "greater than"
side?
This is such a great start! I appreciate you taking the time to answer.
Can
you help me a little further with this one?
Thanks!
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:
Assuming you have header (so your data starts in Row 2) and assuming
the
search city's name is in D2, put this formula in a blank column
starting
on Row 2 and copy it down...
=IF(ABS(C3-LOOKUP(D$2,B$2:B$1000,C$2:C$1000))<100000,1,0)
Change the ranges row of 1000 to a number representing the maximum row
number you could have data in. You can now Auto Filter on the 1.
--
Rick (MVP - Excel)
"Tammy" wrote in message
...
Sorry if this posted twice - I received an error when trying to
submit...
Hi,
Sorry about the weird subject, I wasn't sure how to word this one.
Here
is
some data to use as a guide:
STATEFP ANPSADPI TOTPOP
1 Anniston city 26623
1 Bessemer city 33497
1 Birmingham city 200000
1 Decatur city 48796
1 Dothan city 53583
1 Florence city 36521
1 Gadsden city 42523
1 Huntsville city 159866
1 Mobile city 196278
This is just a small selection from the data - STATEFP is column A /
ANPSADPI is column B / TOTPOP is column C.
My user would like to find a city - Birmingham City for example -
and
find
the related population for that city. Then, return a list of cities
and
their
populations that fall within 100,000 +/- of the this city
(Birmingham).
If Birmingham's population is 200,000, list any cities where their
population falls between 100,000 and 300,000.
The end result should display the list of cities and their
populations.
I feel like I can do this by using an advanced filter, but am not
sure
how
to have excel look for the +/- data within the populations. Or is
there
a
function that could work this out? Please help my brain with this
one!
It's
starting to hurt!
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