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    ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    Hi,

    I'm having trouble figuring out how to get excel to work with me here. I have attached an example workbook showing what I'm trying to do. If someone could explain to me how to solve this I would be very thankful.

    I'm trying to construct a summary table of a large worksheet. I have a value (given in cell G4). Now my summary table begins at cell J7 with a copy of the value in G4. ok easy (this part i have to manually select for each of the data subsets due to slight varaition in entries to each subset). Next in under "result 1" (cell K7) I have used formulatext and RIGHT functions to extract the text cell information from the original location of my date value. In "result2" (cell L7) I have used offset function to pull data from a cell (E7) near to the original location of my date value. Now what I can't seem to figure out is using both offset and formulatext (as well as RIGHT) to pull data from cell (E7). "Result3" show what I've been trying to use, but excel keeps telling me that the formula is incorrect. What am I missing here?

    Thank you,

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    Cross-post.

    http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...functions.html

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    I could not upload my attachment on that website.

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    They do not allow uploads - but you still need to tell us (and them) where else you have posted your question
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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    There is nothing in O5
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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    You have told us what formulas you have tried to use to do this or that - but perhaps explain exactly what you are trying to do (forget formulas and stuff...what do you want to get, and where is it?)

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    Sorry about the typo in my example sheet. it should have read: =offset(RIGHT(FORMULATEXT(J7),2),3,-2).

    General idea
    I would like to use offset function (at M7) to reference a cell near to the cell that I have previously referenced (at J7).


    Thank you for your help thus far.

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    No, tell us what you are trying to do, not what formula you are trying to use

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    Re: ?Offset and formulatext functions?

    I just had this problem. This works for me (Office 2013):

    The Indirect function is needed to convert the text to a reference. You also need the length of the string, too. For example, this worked for me in my application:

    =OFFSET(INDIRECT(RIGHT(FORMULATEXT(U266),LEN(FORMULATEXT(U266))-1)),0,1)

    I think yours would be

    =offset(INDIRECT(RIGHT(FORMULATEXT(J7),2)),3,-2)

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