Check Register Balance
How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a
designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
Perhaps you could give more info. Perhaps a lot more info.
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
Thanks for the quick response. I have a check register in Excel. With each
entry (deposits and withdrawals), my balance changes to a different cell. I would like the current check register balance to show on a balance sheet in another worksheet. At one time I was able to do this in Lotus but cannot remember how I did it. -- Janet "Don Guillett" wrote: Perhaps you could give more info. Perhaps a lot more info. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
Assuming column G is the balance column:
=LOOKUP(100^10,G:G) Will return the last numeric value from column G. Biff "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
Biff
You are obviously a mind reader. It works perfectly! Thanks so much. Janet -- Janet "T. Valko" wrote: Assuming column G is the balance column: =LOOKUP(100^10,G:G) Will return the last numeric value from column G. Biff "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
Hi Biff,
Thank you for this formula, but could you please explain it to me? What does 100^10 mean? "T. Valko" wrote: Assuming column G is the balance column: =LOOKUP(100^10,G:G) Will return the last numeric value from column G. Biff "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
100^10 is 100 to the power 10, or 10 to the power 20, or 1 followed by 20
zeroes, =1E20 In other words, a large number. -- David Biddulph Gilbert wrote: Hi Biff, Thank you for this formula, but could you please explain it to me? What does 100^10 mean? "T. Valko" wrote: Assuming column G is the balance column: =LOOKUP(100^10,G:G) Will return the last numeric value from column G. Biff "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
Check Register Balance
=LOOKUP(100^10,G:G)
What does 100^10 mean? 100^10 means 100 to the 10th power: 100*100*100*100*100*100*100*100*100*100 Or: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 As you can see this is a very large number! The way that LOOKUP works (in this application) is if every number in col G is less than 100^10 then the formula returns the *last* number in col G that is less than 100^10. Unless you're the richest person on the face of the earth then chances are pretty good that none of the numbers in col G will be anywhere near the value 100^10 so the result of the formula is the *last* number in the range. In essence, 100^10 is a very large arbitrary number that we can safely assume will be greater than any value in col G allowing the formula to return the correct result. Lately, I've been using this expression: 1E100 =LOOKUP(1E100,G:G) 1E100 is an even larger number than 100^10. It's 1 followed by 100 zeros. The advantage to using 1E100 is that it's both a huge number and it's a constant value. 100^10 has to calculate but 1E100 doesn't, it's a constant value. You may see formulas using this technique and the number 9.99999999999999E+307: =LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,G:G) This formula works exactly the same, it's just using the largest number that can be entered in a cell as the "arbitrary" huge number. I prefer to use the easier to enter 1E100 as opposed to 9.99999999999999E+307. I don't want to have to count how many 9's I have to type in! -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Gilbert" wrote in message ... Hi Biff, Thank you for this formula, but could you please explain it to me? What does 100^10 mean? "T. Valko" wrote: Assuming column G is the balance column: =LOOKUP(100^10,G:G) Will return the last numeric value from column G. Biff "Janet" wrote in message ... How do I show a check register balance which changes with each entry in a designated single cell so I can easily link it to another document? -- Janet |
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