I have a pretty simple question. Whenever I add columns to a sheet, my vlookups and/or sumifs (located on a different sheet) that reference this sheet are now off by one and I have to go and Find and Replace them to account for the new column. How can I make excel do this automatically whenever a column is added??
*side question: can i get this forum to e-mail me when someone has replied to a post?
Last edited by NBVC; 01-28-2010 at 05:13 PM.
Use something like this:
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If you are inserting columns within the table, then use Index/Match instead of Vlookup
e.g
=INDEX(Sheet2!E:E,MATCH(A1,Sheet2!A:A,0))
is the same as =Vlookup(A1,Sheet2!A:E,5,FALSE)
but it doesn't fixate on the 5th column... it adjusts the E:E as necessary...
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