In Excel: select the last 20 rows of data in a column

[Tad Blanchard]

How do I create a formula that will select the last 20 entries in a column of
a database?

[Bob Phillips]

This is the sort of thing

OFFSET($A$1,COUNTA(A:A)-20,0,20,1)

which can be used like so

=SUM(OFFSET($A$1,COUNTA(A:A)-20,0,20,1))

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HTH

RP
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"Tad Blanchard" <Tad [email protected]> wrote in message
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> How do I create a formula that will select the last 20 entries in a column
of
> a database?

[Krishnakumar]

You can avoid the Volatile OFFSET function.

Try,

=SUM(INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A)-19):INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A)))


HTH

[Bob Phillips]

Yeah, 5 functions for 3. Can't see much rationale in that.

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RP
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> You can avoid the Volatile OFFSET function.
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> Try,
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> =SUM(INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A)-19):INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A)))
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> HTH
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