VLOOKUP problem

[fastballfreddy]

In AT I have the sum of money for the current month - AT2:AT32
In AU I have the days left in the month (sun & mon are not included, they are the weekend).

In cell AW2 I have the formula: =VLOOKUP(0,AT2:AU33,2,FALSE)

Basically if there is money in AT2, it will go to the next cell until it finds 0, to read from AU for the # of days left. My problem is there are a few occasions there could be no money for a day.

I don't know if that made any sense, so I included an attachment.

AT3 has no money for the day, while AT4 does.

The formula doesn't recognize this, and AW2 shows 22, when it should show 20. Does anybody have any ideas for this?

[Domenic]

Try...

=INDEX(AU2:AU33,MATCH(1,IF(ISNUMBER(AT2:AT33),IF(AT2:AT33>0,1)),0)+1)

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER.

Hope this helps!

In article
<[email protected]>,
fastballfreddy
<[email protected]> wrote:

> In AT I have the sum of money for the current month - AT2:AT32
> In AU I have the days left in the month (sun & mon are not included,
> they are the weekend).
>
> In cell AW2 I have the formula: =VLOOKUP(0,AT2:AU33,2,FALSE)
>
> Basically if there is money in AT2, it will go to the next cell until
> it finds 0, to read from AU for the # of days left. My problem is
> there are a few occasions there could be no money for a day.
>
> I don't know if that made any sense, so I included an attachment.
>
> AT3 has no money for the day, while AT4 does.
>
> The formula doesn't recognize this, and AW2 shows 22, when it should
> show 20. Does anybody have any ideas for this?
>
>
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |Filename: web.zip |
> |Download: http://www.excelforum.com/attachment.php?postid=4764 |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------+

[fastballfreddy]

thanks domenic,

that does work for the excel example; however, if you put lets say $100 into AN3, making the total in cell AT3 $100. Your formula will recognize AT3 and return the result 21.

The more I thought about it, what I need is a formula that will start the search at AT33 and move up (AT32, AT31 and so on) until it finds a # > 0. Lets say it finds a value of 200 in AT18, it would then go to AU18-1, to return 10.

any ideas?

[Domenic]

In that case, try the following formula instead...

=INDEX(AU2:AU33,MATCH(2,1/IF(ISNUMBER(AT2:AT33),IF(AT2:AT33>0,1))))-1

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER.

Hope this helps!

In article
<[email protected]>,
fastballfreddy
<[email protected]> wrote:

> thanks domenic,
>
> that does work for the excel example; however, if you put lets say $100
> into AN3, making the total in cell AT3 $100. Your formula will
> recognize AT3 and return the result 21.
>
> The more I thought about it, what I need is a formula that will start
> the search at AT33 and move up (AT32, AT31 and so on) until it finds a
> # > 0. Lets say it finds a value of 200 in AT18, it would then go to
> AU18-1, to return 10.
>
> any ideas?