excel-formula

How to get the hour and minutes difference between 2 datetimestamp in Excel?

Suppose I have 2 timestamp dates: 2/24/2010 1:05:15 AM 2/25/2010 4:05:17 AM Can anyone please advise what function should I use in Excel to get the difference in hours and minutes? Thanks. ...

How do I gather data from the same collumn in multiple worksheets in a single workbook?

Okay so here is what I want to accomplish. For this example I have a single workbook composed of 4 data sheets plus a totals sheet. Each of the 4 data sheets has a similar name following the same pattern where the only difference is the date. (Ex. 9854978_1009_US.txt, where 1009 is the date that changes while the rest of the file name is...

how to get such results using excel formula

i have two excel sheets An example of the two sheets are below sheet1 a 1 b 2 d 1 e 3 g 1 sheet2 a b c d e f i want to put a formula in b1 of sheet 2 and drag it down so that the resulting sheet 2 is sheet2 a 1 b 2 c 0 d 1 e 3 f 0 explanation : - a = 1 because same value in book1 b = 2 because same value ...

Excel Match Bug in a sparse range with duplicate keys

Data in TheRange is {1,"",1,"",1,"",1,"",2} =Match(2, TheRange, 1) returns 9 as expected =Match(1.5, TheRange, 1) returns 7 as expected =Match(1, TheRange, 1) returns 5 which is not expected Anyone come across this ? Anyone got a fix? Additionally if I use Worksheet.Function.Match in VBA I get more unexpected results. ...

How to easily compute time in Excel

I want to do quick calculations in Excel. I have a cell (A1) with 50:00:00. I do =A1+1 and get 74:00:00. So, I guess 1=24 hours=1 day. However, I try =A1+1:23:45 and get an error. Is there an easy way to add hours to hours in Excel? If not, do you have a better tool? Please don't say something like =A1+1/24+23/24/60+45/24/60/60. ...

SumProduct over sets of cells (not contiguous)

I have a total data set that is for 4 different groupings. One of the values is the average time, the other is count. For the Total I have to multiply these and then divide by the total of the count. Currently I use: =SUM(D32*D2,D94*D64,D156*D126,D218*D188)/SUM(D32,D94,D156,D218) I would rather use a SumProduct if I can to make it ...

using excel formulas in .NET

Hello How do i use excel formula AUTOSUM for a range of columns in .NET for ex: i need something like this. Item Quantity ---------- A 10 B 20 ---------- Total 30 Thanks in advance ...

Excel MAXIF function or emulation?

I have a moderately sized dataset in Excel from which I wish to extract the maximum value of the values in Column B, but those that correspond only to cells in Column A that satisfy certain criteria. The desired functionality is similar to that of SUMIF or COUNTIF, but neither of those return data that is necessary. There isn't a MAXIF f...

How to apply formula to cell based on IF condition in Excel

Hi I have an Excel spreadsheed like the one shown below A B 10.02.2007 10 10.03.2007 12 Column A is date and B is price of share Now my task is calculate financial return of share using formula return = ln(price_today / price_yesterday) Now in another sreadsheet I need to create a new column called Return In thi...

excel formula problem

Kindly check the below written formula, if the formula is not correct then please provide me the correct one that is related to this. IF(A1:AV7000=F1,vlookup(f2,B1:C7000,2,0),0) As I have tried above written formulas, but it's not working. ...

excel formula to subtract number of days from a date

is there a way in Excel to have a formula that does something like this: = 12/20/2010 - 180 which would take a certain date (12/20/2010 in this case) and subtract 180 days . . ...

Populate a value in MS Excel

Hello, I have a Excel spreadsheet and I have 3 columns. column A, column B, Column C. In column B if there is a value 1 then in Column C it should populate as True and if in column B value is 0 then in C it should be False. How do I do this in MS Excel ...

Microsft Jet oledb connection to excel loses formulae

I have a dataset and I write it's values to an excel file using Microsoft Jet 4.0 Oledb provider. I want to put hyperlinks into the excel, for this I write "=HYPERLINK("http://www.abc.org/x.pdf")" in DS and then write it to excel. But when the excel is opened it prefixes a ' (quote/apostrophe) before the formula and there it comes as a t...

allow two possible values in a excel cell

Hi, I would like to create a cell format for one cell to only allow the value "yes" or "no" for this cell. How could i do this? Thanks in advance. Jose ...

Shimmed Automation addin

I am developing an Excel addin that has an udf and calls it as a worksheet function. It is a com addin where I am using the IDTExtensibility2 interface and set the class interface type as autodual and then shim it as in the link http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2006/07/23/excel-interop-types-in-shimmed-automation-add-ins.aspx Thing...

VSTO - How To Make IDE Show R1C1 Reference Style? And Import cond. formatting?

Does anyone know how to use R1C1 reference style, inside the IDE for a VSTO Excel Workbook project? I cannot find it in google or in the solution, and the ribbon button thing is not available in the IDE spreadsheet. Also - side question - anyone know why when I imported an excel file, none of the lookups or conditional formatting or nam...

Simple Excel function that splits a numbered entered into one cell randomy and evenly over 3 others.

Hi all, I am looking for a simple function that will take a number entered into a single cell say 20 and divide it evenly and randomly over three other cells, none of the values can be 0. ie. A1 = 20 then B1=6 C1=8 D1=6 Thanks!! ...

How to hide GetType() method from COM?

I made an automation Add-In for Excel, and I made several functions (formulas). I have a class which header looks like this (it is COM visible): [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDual)] [ComVisible(true)] public class Functions {} In a list of methods, I see: ToString(), Equals(), GetHashCode() and GetType() methods. Since ...

Microsoft Excel: Programmatically create a hidden named range.

I am told that the Excel object model permits a Range that is not a part of any sheet, yet contains a set of cells and is denoted by a name in the workbook. Can anyone explain to me how these fit into the Excel object model and how one would go about creating such a thing programatically (either in VBA or .NET source code). Thanks. ...

Return values only if they are not present in current column

I have a column to which I am adding data from another column I would like to check whether that column has the data that I wish to add. Can you help me with a formula that will tell me whether a certain value exists in the current column? Please keep in mind it is a bit more complex than it sounds. Currently I have this in the cell: ...