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Non zero and non blank values from a range

Asked by: Excellearner

Dear experts,

Need an excel formulae which will pull value for each row range where it is an non zero and non blank

thank you

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2009-10-08 at 04:57:28ID24795557
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Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Answers

 

by: roryaPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:03:36ID: 25524361

Do you mean something like:

=LOOKUP("zzzzz",B2:D2)

copied down?

 

by: chris_bottomleyPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:07:06ID: 25524389

HOw about this which returns a count of non blank cells?

Chris

 

by: DLWoodiePosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:07:37ID: 25524394

I'm not sure I fully understand the question however you can use an if statement to establish if a cell is empty, so for example....

=IF(A2<>"",A2,"")

In this example the formula will check if the cell is empty, if not it will pull the information to the cell contains the formula.

 

by: SquinenePosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:07:56ID: 25524399

Howdy Excellearner,

=IF(B2="","",IF(B2=0,"",A2))

This will return a blank if B2 is blank or a zero.  Is this what you were looking for?

 

by: cedlinxPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:20:14ID: 25524514

You could put
=IF(B1>0,VALUE_TO_PULL,"n/a")
in cell A1

And then type in figures in B1 to see what happens. You could put other values in place of "n/a" and see how they play out.

I hope that's what you asked.

 

by: ExcellearnerPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:25:58ID: 25524558

Dear all,

Range B2:D2 will have values, which could be the value i need, zero or blank. In this case, since 'abc' is the value which is non zero or non blank, the formulae will pull, ABC from B2.

so on in row 3 and 4, resulting in 'edf' and 'nes'

Thank you,

 

by: chris_bottomleyPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:27:00ID: 25524564

Then doesn't Rory's initial post do that for you?

Chris

 

by: roryaPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:27:20ID: 25524567

See my formula above, assuming your values of interest are text.

 

by: chris_bottomleyPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:33:33ID: 25524615

Excellearner,

To allow for not found then you can extend Rory's solution with:
=IF(ISERROR(LOOKUP("zzzzz",B2:D2)),"",LOOKUP("zzzzz",B2:D2))

For numeric then perhaps:
=IF(MAX(A2:D2)=0,"", MAX(A2:D2))

chris_bottomley

 

by: ExcellearnerPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:40:50ID: 25524684

Chris/Rorya,

Here the data will have different characters.

Does ("zzzzz") refer to any values in range or will it match for "zzzzz" i the range,

I will check the formulae.

thank you

 

by: ExcellearnerPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:42:15ID: 25524693

Dear experts,

The below one worked

=IF(ISERROR(LOOKUP("zzzzz",B2:D2)),"",LOOKUP("zzzzz",B2:D2))

thank you

 

by: chris_bottomleyPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:49:36ID: 25524762

Then if you would like a suggestion, I suggest you accept Rory's post as the solution and perhaps mine as an assist ... because the solution is basically that as originally posted by Rory.

Chris

 

by: barryhoudiniPosted on 2009-10-08 at 05:57:59ID: 25524828

Are you only concerned with TEXT, the above will ignore any numbers?

Also if any of your "blanks" are formula blanks, i.e. "" returned by a formula, then you might get unexpected results, e.g. if D2 contains a formula blank and C2 contains "edf" then the formula will return a blank.

regards, barry

 

by: barryhoudiniPosted on 2009-10-08 at 06:06:07ID: 25524881

To retrieve the last non-blank (including formula blanks as blanks), non-zero value, text or numeric, you could use

=LOOKUP(2,1/(B2:D2<>"")/(B2:D2<>0),B2:D2)

If the range only contains blanks and/or zeroes then you get #N/A, apply ISERROR, or IFERROR in Excel 2007, to suppress #N/A

barry

 

by: ExcellearnerPosted on 2009-10-08 at 13:58:56ID: 25530013

Rorya,

Pls tell me the significance of "zzzzz", in your formulae.

Also Barry, though i have not yet tried your formulae, could you please explain your formulae. you can do it when you have time i am in no hurry.

thank you

 

by: roryaPosted on 2009-10-08 at 15:18:52ID: 25530801

"zzzzz" is just a text value that is 'larger' (in alphabetical terms) than any that will appear in your list, due to the way that LOOKUP works. If you were doing the same thing looking for number values, you might use a huge number like 9.9999E307 for example.

 

by: barryhoudiniPosted on 2009-10-08 at 16:43:45ID: 25531384

With this part here .....

1/(B2:D2<>"")/(B2:D2<>0)

....both test produce an array of TRUE/FALSE values

when you divide 1 by each array then the result is an array of 1s or #DIV/0! errors. 1 only occurs when B2:D2 isn't blank or zero.....so if B2 is zero, C2 is text and D2 is blank you get this array

{#DIV/0!,1,#DIV/0!}

When you slot that into the formula it looks like this

=LOOKUP(2,{#DIV/0!,1,#DIV/0!},B2:D2)

When 2 is looked up in an array that contains no values greater than 2 then it matches with the last number....in this case the 1....and the corresponding value is returned from B2:D2, i.e. the text in C2.

The priciple is the same as Rory's "zzzzzz", in this case we only need 2 because the only possible number in the array is 1 (errors are ignored)

regards, barry

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