This might be a little tricky......
 

Hello All,

Hopefully someone here knows something I dont!

Basically, I need a formula or function that will allow one cell to
determine what value is assigned to another cell. What I've been
playing with is:

=IF(H1=1,(SUBSTITUTE(Details!D6,"0",D2)))

I've never used SUBSTITUTE before and I think I am applying it
wrong...... I'm not sure if it will even do what I am looking
for.......

So, what is supposed to happen is that if H1=1 then cell D6 on the
Details page will have the same number as cell D2. Eventually it will
be an imbedded IF structure that will say that if H1=2 then Details!D7
will be the same number as D2.

The other important part is that I need it to be firm. As in, if I
enter the number 1 into H1 then D2 needs to become the same number as
Details!D6, but if I then enter the number 2 into H1 then I need the
number that was just put into Details!D6 to stay there.

I hope I explained that well; I know it's a little confusing.

Hope someone can help!!!


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This might be a little tricky......
 

Let me throw in a little more detail here.......

The idea here is that a ton of information gets pasted into cells F2 -
F1500 on a daily basis. Now, there is a list of names in cells C2-C50
and cells D2-D50 count up how many of the entries in F2 - F1500 apply
to each of the names in C2-C50. On the Details sheet I have the daily
results of this count.

At the moment I am manually moving the count in D2 - D50 to the daily
tracker which is time consuming. I was hoping that I could put the day
of the month (as 1, or 10, what have you) in H1 and have it
automaticlly move it to the corosponding day for the matching name on
the Details sheet.

So, let me throw in an example. C2 contains "John Doe" . D2 contains
John's count of 150. On the details sheet D6 would be John's Day 1 and
D7 would be Johns Day 2. I'm looking for a function that will place the
contents of D2 into Details!D6 if H1=1 and Details!D7 if H1=2, but will
not blank out Details!D6 when H1 is changed from 1 to 2.

I am open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas of a way to go at
this........


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This might be a little tricky......
 

nevi Wrote:
but will not blank out Details!D6 when H1 is changed from 1 to 2.


the only way you can do this, is to use VBA. If you use a formula,
then each time you change H1, all the other formulas will change too.
If you want to email me a sample of the spreadsheet, I will create a
macro for you.
I will PM you my email address

Matt


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