Find, Lookup, Match, can't figure it out.
 

If Sheet1 A1 is "Blue". Sheet2 ColumnA is "Red, Green, Yellow". Can function
look in Sheet2 ColumnA for "Blue", if not found, find the first empty cell
and paste "Blue" in that Cell. If Blue exists, then overwrite. Is this
possible?
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Thanks for your help in advance.

Find, Lookup, Match, can't figure it out.
 

Functions in cells can't write to other cells. They can only return values to
the cell that holds the formula/function.



fdebelo wrote:

If Sheet1 A1 is "Blue". Sheet2 ColumnA is "Red, Green, Yellow". Can function
look in Sheet2 ColumnA for "Blue", if not found, find the first empty cell
and paste "Blue" in that Cell. If Blue exists, then overwrite. Is this
possible?
--
Thanks for your help in advance.

--

Dave Peterson

Find, Lookup, Match, can't figure it out.
 

As far as I know, Excel formulas cannot look up for "Colour of cells".
My suggestion - to select all "Blue" cells by Edit - Find - Options -
Format and put in neighbour cells e.g. "1", for yellow cells - "2"
etc.
After this you will be able to use VLOOKUP function.

br/ Mikha


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Find, Lookup, Match, can't figure it out.
 

Thanks for the help
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Thanks for your help in advance.


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Functions in cells can't write to other cells. They can only return values to
the cell that holds the formula/function.



fdebelo wrote:

If Sheet1 A1 is "Blue". Sheet2 ColumnA is "Red, Green, Yellow". Can function
look in Sheet2 ColumnA for "Blue", if not found, find the first empty cell
and paste "Blue" in that Cell. If Blue exists, then overwrite. Is this
possible?
--
Thanks for your help in advance.

--

Dave Peterson