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I have a distances grid. I need the data from the grid to enter into my sheet automatically when I type the two towns into columns 1 and 2. SO when I type tow towns into the sheet it reads the distance from the corresponding box in the grid. Vlookup hasn't worked for me so far. Thanks -- phil2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phil2006's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35092 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=555195 |
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*phil2006* ha scritto: I have a distances grid. I need the data from the grid to enter into my sheet automatically when I type the two towns into columns 1 and 2. SO when I type tow towns into the sheet it reads the distance from the corresponding box in the grid. Vlookup hasn't worked for me so far. Thanks How are your data: row, columns, and so on. If you don't tell us ho your data are on the worksheet, it'quite impossible to help you... Help us to help you... :-) -- Thanks in advance for your feedback. Ciao Franz Verga from Italy |
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My grid is on sheet2, the city names are in row 1 and column A. I am typing the names on sheet 1 in columns 1 and 2 hopin to achieve a distance in column 3. Thanks!! -- phil2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phil2006's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35092 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=555195 |
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*phil2006* ha scritto: My grid is on sheet2, the city names are in row 1 and column A. I am typing the names on sheet 1 in columns 1 and 2 hopin to achieve a distance in column 3. Thanks!! I think Paul gave you the right answer. I would suggested the same too. -- Hope I helped you. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Ciao Franz Verga from Italy |
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= vlookup(A1,sheet2!distance_table,match(B2,sheet2!c ity2namerow,0),false)
-- paul remove nospam for email addy! "phil2006" wrote: My grid is on sheet2, the city names are in row 1 and column A. I am typing the names on sheet 1 in columns 1 and 2 hopin to achieve a distance in column 3. Thanks!! -- phil2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phil2006's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35092 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=555195 |
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Example only....adjust ranges and cities.
You have a table A1:J10 Leave A1 blank. Say A2:A10 contains city and B1:J1 contains city1 e.g A2 = Quebec B1 = Quebec1 A3 = Ottawa C1 = Ottawa1 A4 = Timmins D1 = Timmins1 B2:J10 contains mileages. One method is to select the entire table A1:J10 then choose InsertNameCreate, and select top row and left column. Then use the intersect functionality: =city city1 In above example =quebec ottawa1 This will return the value of the cell at the intersection of city and city1 Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:03:39 -0500, phil2006 wrote: I have a distances grid. I need the data from the grid to enter into my sheet automatically when I type the two towns into columns 1 and 2. SO when I type tow towns into the sheet it reads the distance from the corresponding box in the grid. Vlookup hasn't worked for me so far. Thanks Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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Actually Gord, as long as:
<Tools <Options <Calculation tab, "Accept Labels In Formulas" *IS* checked. No additional names need to be created. A formula containing the existing cities from the grid will return the values. =row_city col_city will work, with the exception of both names being the same. Also, has to be on the same sheet as the grid. Your suggestion enables the formulas to work on *other* sheets, but problem comes in when the grid has duplicate names in the columns and rows. Makes it necessary (as I see you described ... Quebec, Quebec1), to assign "false" names to the row or the column cities. However, what I described, and what you described, does not do what the OP has requested, namely, returning grid values in a column adjoining 2 columns containing 2 city names. It's doubtful that he wants the users to actually enter formulas, no matter how concise they may be (though I could be wrong). So, using your 'name create' procedure for the grid on Sheet2, with "false" names in the duplicate column cities (say "1" appended), AND ... the user being told to enter on Sheet1, in A1 and B1: City1 City Then in C1 we can try this: =INDIRECT(A1&":"&A1) INDIRECT(B1&":"&B1) Note the <space between the Indirects. -- Regards, RD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Example only....adjust ranges and cities. You have a table A1:J10 Leave A1 blank. Say A2:A10 contains city and B1:J1 contains city1 e.g A2 = Quebec B1 = Quebec1 A3 = Ottawa C1 = Ottawa1 A4 = Timmins D1 = Timmins1 B2:J10 contains mileages. One method is to select the entire table A1:J10 then choose InsertNameCreate, and select top row and left column. Then use the intersect functionality: =city city1 In above example =quebec ottawa1 This will return the value of the cell at the intersection of city and city1 Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:03:39 -0500, phil2006 wrote: I have a distances grid. I need the data from the grid to enter into my sheet automatically when I type the two towns into columns 1 and 2. SO when I type tow towns into the sheet it reads the distance from the corresponding box in the grid. Vlookup hasn't worked for me so far. Thanks Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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Thanks RD
We'll get that cat skinned yet<g Gord On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:03:05 -0700, "RagDyeR" wrote: Actually Gord, as long as: <Tools <Options <Calculation tab, "Accept Labels In Formulas" *IS* checked. No additional names need to be created. A formula containing the existing cities from the grid will return the values. =row_city col_city will work, with the exception of both names being the same. Also, has to be on the same sheet as the grid. Your suggestion enables the formulas to work on *other* sheets, but problem comes in when the grid has duplicate names in the columns and rows. Makes it necessary (as I see you described ... Quebec, Quebec1), to assign "false" names to the row or the column cities. However, what I described, and what you described, does not do what the OP has requested, namely, returning grid values in a column adjoining 2 columns containing 2 city names. It's doubtful that he wants the users to actually enter formulas, no matter how concise they may be (though I could be wrong). So, using your 'name create' procedure for the grid on Sheet2, with "false" names in the duplicate column cities (say "1" appended), AND ... the user being told to enter on Sheet1, in A1 and B1: City1 City Then in C1 we can try this: =INDIRECT(A1&":"&A1) INDIRECT(B1&":"&B1) Note the <space between the Indirects. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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