I think ARRAY FORMULAE may make it more simpler.. Its only today that I learnt to use array formulae...
Go to www.cpearson.com They have put excellent excel tips on excel and VBA. But they have not mentioned that using cell range addresses like "A:A" does not work with array formulas but we have to use it like "A1:A65536" I nearly went mad till i found that out.. I still guess array formulae are more powerful and quicker than regular lookup formulae On Oct 15, 5:56 pm, Eric <ericc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a report that I need to put together regularly from several > different data sources. I keep each data set on it's own sheet within > a workbook. To create a single data set that I can generate a pivot > table from I usually end up using many looks-ups like this one: > > =INDEX(Exchanges,MATCH($E14,ExchangeCodes,0),10) > > When I need another field, I just drop in another one and change the > last number: =INDEX(Exchanges,MATCH($E14,ExchangeCodes,0),3) > > To avoid errors I usually wrap these requests in an "if/iserror" > statement: > if ( iserror(INDEX(Exchanges,MATCH($E14,ExchangeCodes,0),10)) , "0", > =INDEX(Exchanges,MATCH($E14,ExchangeCodes,0),10) ) > > As you can imaging having several hundred of these statements is a > killer on my cpu during the constant recalcs. I've tried disabling > auto-calc but I really need the instant feedback to make sure I'm not > entering any erroneous formulas. > > Does anyone know of a better, more elegant way to retrieve data from > several worksheets to create a single data table? > > Thanks, > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
