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  1. 05-10-2013, 11:22 AM #1
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    adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    I’ve never used the "Indirect" formula before and I’m struggling to write this into my current formula. I have an “Sum(If(“ array formula and I’m trying to make it more dynamic by having the formula select the correct tab (Tabs are labeled by Day of the week) to pull the data from. I have a cell that updates everyday with the current day of the week in cell A4. I will need to be able to drag this formula to the other cells within my work sheet. Here is my current formula:

    {=SUM(IF(Sunday!$A$7:$A$4954=$A7,IF(Sunday!E$7:E$4954=0,1,0),0))/COUNTIF(Sunday!$A$7:$A$4954,$A7)}

    I’m trying to make the tab reference (in this case “Sunday”) dynamic. I’ve tried adding the indirect to the formula with no success. Please help.

    {=SUM(IF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!$A$7:$A$4954=$A7"),IF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!E$7:E$4954=0,1,0),0))")/COUNTIF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!$A$7:$A$4954,$A7)"}
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    hi Eastbay2, welcome to the forum. it is probably better to let us have a look at the data. but maybe:
    =SUM(IF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!A7:A4954")=$A7,IF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!E7:E4954")=0,1,0),0))/COUNTIF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!A7:A4954"),$A7)

    though it looks like you can use COUNTIFS to handle since you are using Excel 2010:
    =COUNTIFS(INDIRECT($A$4&"!A7:A4954"),$A7,INDIRECT($A$4&"!E7:E4954"),0)/COUNTIF(INDIRECT($A$4&"!A7:A4954"),$A7)

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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    You should be able to shorten the formula by using AVERAGE function, i.e.

    =AVERAGE(IF(INDIRECT("'"&$A$4&"'!A7:A4954")=$A7,IF(INDIRECT("'"&$A$4&"'!E7:E4954")=0,1,0)))

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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    No luck I'm returning a #Ref error with both the formulas (sum if and countifs). I don’t know if this matters or not but I guess it’s worth mentioning. Although i have excel 2010 I’m using the file in Excel 97-2003 workbook style because of people within the organization still haven’t upgraded yet. Not sure if this could be a reason for the error. I was going to try and attach part of the excel file but I’m not sure if I can do that on this website or even how to do that.
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    I may be wrong but i don’t think the Average formula will work in this situation because I’m essentially counting the number of zero's on other tabs.
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    I'm going to guess that the Day in A4 is NOT just a text string "Sunday"
    It's probably a formula that returns a DATE, but the cell is custom formatted as "dddd".

    Replace all instances of A4 with
    TEXT(A4,"dddd")
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    That is correct, and now that i think about that, its makes since that im getting the error. I can fix that. Thank you guys for the help!!
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    Great, glad to help
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

    Quote Originally Posted by Eastbay2 View Post
    I may be wrong but i don’t think the Average formula will work in this situation because I’m essentially counting the number of zero's on other tabs.
    Your formula is counting the number of zeroes in col E where col A = A7, divided by the total number of rows where A = A7, that's essentially calculating a % of the qualifying rows that have a zero in col E, you can do that by assigning 1 to rows where both criteria hold and zeroes to rows which only satisfy the A7 criterion....and then averaging those - when I tried it out my formula gave the the same results as the formulas suggested by benishiryo and ConneXionLost....
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    Re: adding Indirect formula to my current sum if array formula

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