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Pulling Data from Different Columns

Asked by ali_ in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

Tags: excel 2007

Thought this would be simple when i first looked at it but obviously wrong.

Essentially i am trying to produce a workbook where a departmental manager can paste information from our database into blank sheet (Paste Here) in excel and then it will add certain columns together to produce some totals on another sheet in the workbook. I have attached a stripped down version which doesnt require columns adding (for Privacy reasons).

In reality i will need it to add a few cells from different columns to get to the total but once i can understand the basic pull through i hope this shouldn't be too hard???

My problem arises when the columns change, so where for example column E is currently Wholesale N Fast Moving Sales, this may change next time the manager extracts information from our database to column I. This rules out my hopeful solution of pulling from a specified column / naming the column.

Another problem is that if for a particular month there has been no spend in a particular product group (for example Wholesale N Slow Moving Parts) this column will not appear for that months export but naturally still be included in the calculation for a total.

I have no hope if the answer is VBA and need to get this up and running fairly urgently. I hope there is a simple answer but I seem to be struggling to find it.
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