Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [SOLVED] Identifying the correct row in Spreadsheet formulas

2011/12/11 Ian Whitfield <whitfield@telkomsa.net>:
> Hi All
>
> Thanks for all the help offered by the Group - It's very much appreciated!!
> And with this help - although I never got an exact answer - I have been able
> to solve it!!
>
> Basically my question could be broken down into three parts....
>
> 1) How do I work out what ROW NUMBER a given unique value is on?
> 2) How do I use this ROW NUMBER to make-up a valid CELL ADDRESS?
> 3) How do I get the VALUE in that CELL ADDRESS?
>
> After a lot of trial and error - and with the pointers given to me by the
> Group I was able to 'crack' it!!
>
> 1) For the ROW NUMBER I used MATCH. At first this did not give me what I
> wanted as MATCH returns the ROW COUNT within a specified Array and NOT the
> actual ROW NUMBER! Then it occurred to me that if I make the Array the whole
> portion of the spreadsheet where the numbers are, starting at Row 1, and not
> just there actual position of the values I wanted to check in then the ROW
> COUNT returned by MATCH would in fact be the actual ROW NUMBER!!

Or you could just use the original array and add what's missing, like
”=MATCH(Paramters)+Something”


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> Problem
> solved, so
>
> "=MATCH(Unique Number,Array)"
> Where - 'Unique Number' is a value I put in a fixed cell so I use this Cell
> address and the 'Array' is the whole section of the Spreadsheet where these
> numbers are, (ie I have the numbers 1 to 12 in positions A7 to A18 so for
> the Array I specify *A1*:A18 so that the ROW COUNT matches the ROW NUMBER).
>
> 2) For the CELL ADDRESS I have a cell that identifies each COLUMN that these
> values resides in (ie all my TOTALS are in COLUMN H), and I now have the ROW
> COUNT of the data I'm looking for. So I can use
>
> "=COLUMN ID & fixed ROW NUMBER"
>
> 3) The last step is to get the VALUE that is in the Cell at that location.
> For this I used
>
> "=INDIRECT (CELL ADDRESS)"
>
> Perfect - PROBLEM SOLVED!!
>
> I can now change ONE VALUE in a cell (ie this month I'm working with
> December figures so I enter "12" into the cell), and ALL my values change
> automatically for that month. No more endless Cutting and Pasting!!
>
> Thanks again guys - I hope this explanation will be of interest to you and
> maybe of use to other users trying to automate yearly figures to do monthly
> analysis.
>
> Ian Whitfield.
>
>
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