formula for displaying only the last entry of a group of cells

S

Steve

How do you write the formula that will display only the latest entry in a
succession of entries? For example, if I have 12 months in 12 columns, and
the 13th column specifies "Last Update" , if I have made entries for Jan,
Feb, Mar so far, I need only the latest and last entry to appear in the 13th
column. When I enter April, then it would display in the 13th column cell and
so on.

Please help.
 
M

Mike H

Hi,

This returns the rightmost entry in the row A2:M2

=LOOKUP(2,1/(A2:M2<>""),A2:M2)
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Mike

When competing hypotheses are otherwise equal, adopt the hypothesis that
introduces the fewest assumptions while still sufficiently answering the
question.
 
B

Bernard Liengme

Assuming the entries are numbers: =LOOKUP(1,1/(A1:A12<>0),A1:A12)
Will no 'jump' blank cells

=LOOKUP(REPT("z",255),A1:A12) will return the last text entry of Sheet1
column A
best wishes
 

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