What am I doing wrong

[aussiegirlone]

vLookup Problem never ceases
Dear someone
I’m having a problem with a vlookup formula, with (last cell/row always
varying) what do I do to copy the last cell with data and paste it to another
sheet.
This formula below finds the first sum not the last.
Or Is there another way to copy last cell with data and paste to another
sheet?

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A5,Employee1!$A$5:$AF$32,32,FALSE)),"",VLOOKUP(A5,Employee1!$A$5:$AF$32,32,FALSE))

 

[Jacob Skaria]

If you review the function..

=VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,range_lookup)

The col_index_num is the column number within the table_array. Here there
are only 28 columns in the table array $A$5:$AF$32. If you are looking to
retrieve the last column of the above array it should be 28 instead of 32.

=VLOOKUP(A5,Employee1!$A$5:$AF$32,28,FALSE)



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[aussiegirlone]

Im sure I can count the number of columns and it is 32, however I copied your
formula and it returns 0 so I change 28 to 32 and it returned the first sum
instead of the last which is the total.
6
6
4
5
21

I have tried this code but the problem is it adds up all the sums including
the total so I get double the total e.g 42 should be 21

=SUM(Employee1!AF:AF)

 

[Per Jessen]

Hi

As the last cell in column AF is a total, I suppose you have a row heading
in the total line column A equal to "Total", try this sumif formula:

=SUMIF(Employee1!A5:A32;"<>Total";Employee1!AF5:AF32)

Hopes this helps.
....
Per

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Oops...Sorry ...i would have been in another world while replying earlier..

Below mentioned is one way to retrieve the last value from AF for the
matching valuue in Col A.

'array formula
=INDIRECT(ADDRESS(MAX(IF(Employee1!$A$5:$A$32=A5,ROW(Employee1!$A$5:$A$32))),32))

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[aussiegirlone]

I dont understand why the codes you both have provided still returns 0

 

[Jacob Skaria]

OK. Let us try the below.

With a table as below try the below formula which retrives the last matching
value for 'test'. You can adjust this to suit for your requirement..

ColA ColB
test 1
apple 32
test 2
apple 45
apple 52
boy 23
test 3

=LOOKUP(2,1/(A1:A10="test"),B1:B10)

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[aussiegirlone]

I opened a new Excel workbook testing the code but I get N/A
As another solution to my problem is to do something Stupid like this.... in
cell D5 on sheet where copy of total will be =SUM(Employee1!AF:AF), then in
Cell C5 =Sum D5/2. although its double the trouble I am getting a true
result, otherwise, I don't know what else to do. It seems strange to me as
the vLookup use to work but I noticed that every few days when I cleared the
data on employee sheet this caused the vlookup to become a #REF# Anyhow, I
think I'll just let it go!
Thankyou all very much for all your help I do appreciate it.

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Note that for the below example the formula used is not VLOOKUP() but ***
LOOKUP() ***

=LOOKUP(2,1/(A1:A10="test"),B1:B10)

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[Per Jessen]

As Total is larger than other values in the range you could use:

=MAX(Employee1!AF5:AF32)

Regards,
Per

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Note that for the below example the formula used is not VLOOKUP() but ***
LOOKUP() ***

=LOOKUP(2,1/(A1:A10="test"),B1:B10)

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[aussiegirlone]

Simon,
I have spent quite some time on this "Horrendous " workbook to get it
working without errors. so far so good; its 90 pages big so I'd rather not
supply a complete Workbook as a sample as I now know it will not be deleted
from discussion groups.
But thank you for trying to help simon

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Have you tried setting the last arg to TRUE

=VLOOKUP(A5,Employee1!$A$5:$AF$32,32,TRUE)

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[aussiegirlone]

yes you beauty Per Jessen you did it thank you!

 

[aussiegirlone]

Alls well that ends well please there is no need for more replies thank you
all