I am creating a worksheet that looks up member sizes from a user input. I have made it so that when the user types in the beam size it returns "doesn't exist" or the dimensions of the beam in number form. Now i want the numbers to appear in a cell but i cant figure out how to write the formula the way i want it. Basically I need the cell to return:
=if(a6="doesn't exist", if(a7="doesn't exist", if(a8="doesn't exist" .... this continues until next cell is empty or if it encounters a number in which case i want it to return that number.
I'm pretty sure this is easy if you know macros or programming but I dont so please help!
Thank you,
AH
Last edited by NBVC; 01-18-2012 at 04:10 PM.
Something like:
=INDEX(A1:A10,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(ISNUMBER(A1:A10),0),0))
ajust ranges to suit.
If it is the only number, then you can also use:
=SUM(A1:A10)
Last edited by NBVC; 01-18-2012 at 03:39 PM.
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Found it already... use =sum(....) and it returns the only number. 2 hours of my life down the tubes.
Thank you for the help!
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