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Generate 1-to-1 outputs for a list of inputs into a excel formula
I have a detailed workbook in excel that is using a series of approximately
50 formulas and lookup tables to generate a result based on a few inputs that are fed into the formulas. While I understand, and consider myself to be proficient with macros, I was wondering if there is any way that I could create a list of several hundred input parameters that would be fed into the equations and have excel organize the answers that are generated. |
Generate 1-to-1 outputs for a list of inputs into a excel formula
The quick answer is yes. The longer part of the answer involves how you want
to provide the input parameters. I would assume that they need to be easily altered so you can look at different results based on different inputs. The easiest way is probably something like adding a sheet to the workbook that you would use to enter the parameters and have your formulas pick up the values from it. Simple Example: You have a formula somewhe =(5 + 4)^2 On your new sheet you put 5 in A1, 4 in B2 (and the sheet's name is Sheet2) You could revise your formula to: =(Sheet2!A1 + Sheet2!B2)^2 Other alternatives would be retrieving the data items from a text file. I work with some people who have laboratory test results that the test equipment creates .txt files containing the test results and we just read those right into Excel spreadsheets for analysis. Similarly you could retrieve the parameters from other sources such as a relational database. In the cases where you are retrieving the parameters from external sources (.txt files, databases, etc) you would then have the code place the parameter items into specific locations in your workbook and attack it like the simple example above. Hope this assists you in your search for an answer. Just remember that pretty much anything you can do from the keyboard, you can do within a macro although you may not always be able to record a macro to do it all. The macro recorder is very literal minded and often custom modification or just from the ground up building of custom code is needed to provide a solution to a complex activity. "JBollinger1234" wrote: I have a detailed workbook in excel that is using a series of approximately 50 formulas and lookup tables to generate a result based on a few inputs that are fed into the formulas. While I understand, and consider myself to be proficient with macros, I was wondering if there is any way that I could create a list of several hundred input parameters that would be fed into the equations and have excel organize the answers that are generated. |
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