Is there a formula that doesn't change current cell if false?
I have a large spreadsheet and I regularly paste out a small section and get
many people to update fields. I then want excel to find this small section (via Vlookup) and return the new updates. If the result in the main sheet is false ie; current cell is not part of the small selection and cannot be found, I want the cell to be unchanged. This allows me to keep the main sheet updated as time permits. |
Is there a formula that doesn't change current cell if false?
wilmaloney wrote:
I have a large spreadsheet and I regularly paste out a small section and get many people to update fields. I then want excel to find this small section (via Vlookup) and return the new updates. If the result in the main sheet is false ie; current cell is not part of the small selection and cannot be found, I want the cell to be unchanged. This allows me to keep the main sheet updated as time permits. The problem being you can't make a cell refer to itself. This may not be feasible, but if you kept a snapshot copy of the worksheet you could refer to that to fill in where the lookup fails. |
Is there a formula that doesn't change current cell if false?
thanks for the reply, not sure if I was clear.
the main worksheet is my "Customer maintenance" worksheet, the small section becomes the "todays work " worksheet. In both sheets I have a customer number that I use in the vlookup formula. I then use vlookup to the find all the entries of "todays work" in "Customer maintenance" and return the data that has been updated. The problem I have is that in the "Customer maintenance" sheet I have about 4000 records and I am only checking for about 20 records at a time. If there is an existing entry in "customer maintenance" and it is not part of "todays work" I don't want that cell to be changed. At the moment as Vlookup can't find an entry it returns false , I would like it to see FALSE but leave the cell unchanged? Does that sound clear? "smartin" wrote: wilmaloney wrote: I have a large spreadsheet and I regularly paste out a small section and get many people to update fields. I then want excel to find this small section (via Vlookup) and return the new updates. If the result in the main sheet is false ie; current cell is not part of the small selection and cannot be found, I want the cell to be unchanged. This allows me to keep the main sheet updated as time permits. The problem being you can't make a cell refer to itself. This may not be feasible, but if you kept a snapshot copy of the worksheet you could refer to that to fill in where the lookup fails. |
Is there a formula that doesn't change current cell if false?
Seems clear. Again, I think you need to keep a copy of the original
"customer maintenance" to refer to if the lookup to "todays work" fails. wilmaloney wrote: thanks for the reply, not sure if I was clear. the main worksheet is my "Customer maintenance" worksheet, the small section becomes the "todays work " worksheet. In both sheets I have a customer number that I use in the vlookup formula. I then use vlookup to the find all the entries of "todays work" in "Customer maintenance" and return the data that has been updated. The problem I have is that in the "Customer maintenance" sheet I have about 4000 records and I am only checking for about 20 records at a time. If there is an existing entry in "customer maintenance" and it is not part of "todays work" I don't want that cell to be changed. At the moment as Vlookup can't find an entry it returns false , I would like it to see FALSE but leave the cell unchanged? Does that sound clear? "smartin" wrote: wilmaloney wrote: I have a large spreadsheet and I regularly paste out a small section and get many people to update fields. I then want excel to find this small section (via Vlookup) and return the new updates. If the result in the main sheet is false ie; current cell is not part of the small selection and cannot be found, I want the cell to be unchanged. This allows me to keep the main sheet updated as time permits. The problem being you can't make a cell refer to itself. This may not be feasible, but if you kept a snapshot copy of the worksheet you could refer to that to fill in where the lookup fails. |
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