IF, INDIRECT, & Wild cards
I think I answered my own question with this:
=IF(ISERROR(VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37))),
INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37), VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37)))
Thanks for your help!
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javablood
"javablood" wrote:
Jacob,
Brilliant! thanks.
But if I have another letter, say "J" I tried:
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("U",INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"&"d"& $N37))),
VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"&"d"&$N37)),
IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("J",INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"&"d"&$ N37))),
VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"&"d"&$N37)), INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"&"d"&$N37)))
but it did not work, I get #VALUE. It must be something about the ISERROR
that I do not know.
Instead of trying to account for whatever letters there may be, is there a
way to search/detect for no letters or just a number to be able to pull the
value from that?
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javablood
"Jacob Skaria" wrote:
Try the below instead
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("u",INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" &
"h"&$N37))),VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37)), INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!"
&
"h"&$N37))
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Jacob Skaria
"javablood" wrote:
I have the following formula in a worksheet cell that captures data from
another worksheet:
=IF(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37) = "*U*", INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" &
"h"&$N37), VALUE(INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37)))
This works great if there is no "U" in the referred to cell because a number
is returned but if there is a "U" in the referred to cell, #VALUE! is
returned!
If I just use =INDIRECT("'"&$T$1&"'!" & "h"&$N37), it works fine whether
there is a "U" or not in the referred to cell, e.g., 10U will be returned but
a 50 will be returned as text and I need a number if there is no "U". Hence,
my need for the IF statement. The referred to cells come from an Access
database query where I had to combine two fields to create one field for
Excel.
Does anyone have an idea of what I may be doing wrong?
TIA
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javablood
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