How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB

Try this:

=LOOKUP(2,1/(1-ISBLANK(F1:F1000)),F1:F1000)
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"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
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How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB

George,

Provided that you do not mean WHOLE column when you say column of numbers
try:

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

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Sandy

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"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
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How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB

Thanks, for the quick responses. Does exactly what I needed to do.


"Sandy Mann" wrote in message
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George,

Provided that you do not mean WHOLE column when you say column of numbers
try:

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

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HTH

Sandy

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"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
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How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB

That puts efficiency in back seat. <g

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:
Thanks, for the quick responses. Does exactly what I needed to do.


"Sandy Mann" wrote in message
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George,

Provided that you do not mean WHOLE column when you say column of numbers
try:

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

--
HTH

Sandy

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"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
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How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB







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[1] The SumProduct function should implicitly coerce the truth values to
their Excel numeric equivalents.
[2] The lookup functions should have an optional argument for the return
value, defaulting to #N/A in its absence.

Aladin,

I accept that your use of LOOKUP is more efficient than mine, (well my
plagiarised version really, probably the only original thought I have had
was, "I wonder if there is anything on the net about Excel?"), for one thing
'mine' used two function calls. So that I can expand my understanding of
how XL works, do you know if LOOKUP checks all 65,536 rows or just the used
range? If it does check all rows, is it still faster than a limited range -
say 1,000 rows. I other words is it 65 times faster?

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"Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message
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That puts efficiency in back seat. <g

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:
Thanks, for the quick responses. Does exactly what I needed to do.


"Sandy Mann" wrote in message
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George,

Provided that you do not mean WHOLE column when you say column of numbers
try:

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

--
HTH

Sandy

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"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
.com...

How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB







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[1] The SumProduct function should implicitly coerce the truth values to
their Excel numeric equivalents.
[2] The lookup functions should have an optional argument for the return
value, defaulting to #N/A in its absence.

Sandy Mann wrote:
Aladin,

I accept that your use of LOOKUP is more efficient than mine, (well my
plagiarised version really, probably the only original thought I have had
was, "I wonder if there is anything on the net about Excel?"), for one thing
'mine' used two function calls. So that I can expand my understanding of
how XL works, do you know if LOOKUP checks all 65,536 rows or just the used
range? If it does check all rows, is it still faster than a limited range -
say 1,000 rows. I other words is it 65 times faster?


LOOKUP() effects a binary search (see:
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/binarySearch.html), thus very fast.

In

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

it's not LOOKUP itself that requires time. Rather:

(a) the evaluation of ISNUMBER(L1:L1000), and

(b) 1/Expression

Hence, the formula

=LOOKUP(2,1/ISNUMBER(L1:L1000),L1:L1000)

is significantly less efficient compared to

=LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,L:L)

When the interest is in retrieving the last numeric value, one would
should invoke the latter, not the former.

=LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,A:A)

which will return the last numeric value from column A if any.

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:
How can I find the last nonblank value in a column of numbers?

TIA

GWB