Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
Barry Premeaux wrote: Thank you. I will give this a try. I guess a better description might have been a basic check book. The balance cell is empty until an associated transaction is entered. Then it updates the balance to reflect the transaction just made. If F4 is current balance, a transaction entered in E5 updates F5 to reflect the new balance. F6, 7, 8.. are still blank. OK, that makes sense. So it is not about the transaction being 0, but empty. Here is a working formula: =IF(ISBLANK(E4);;SUM(E$2:E4)) I have supposed that the transactions start at row 2. If not you have to change the E$2 accordingly. -- Piet van Oostrum p...@vanoostrum.org WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
-Original Message- From: Barry Premeaux bpreme...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:17 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Reply: Barry, Try one of these formulas. The first does what you said you want. The second does what I think you want. =IF(E5=0,0,F4+E5) =IF(E5=,,F4+E5) -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
Try this in F5 =IF(E5=0,0,F4+E5) I tried the other formulas, but kept getting error codes. This one works and gives me the results I was looking for. F5 remains blank until their is an actual data entry in E5. Thank you for the help. Barry On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Piet van Oostrum p...@vanoostrum.org wrote: Barry Premeaux wrote: Thank you. I will give this a try. I guess a better description might have been a basic check book. The balance cell is empty until an associated transaction is entered. Then it updates the balance to reflect the transaction just made. If F4 is current balance, a transaction entered in E5 updates F5 to reflect the new balance. F6, 7, 8.. are still blank. OK, that makes sense. So it is not about the transaction being 0, but empty. Here is a working formula: =IF(ISBLANK(E4);;SUM(E$2:E4)) I have supposed that the transactions start at row 2. If not you have to change the E$2 accordingly. -- Piet van Oostrum p...@vanoostrum.org WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
I don't understand the references to a conditional statement and the reference to 0. But, to create a running balance, you just use a sum with the first cell anchored. For example, assume entries are in the first column, A starting at A1, and you want the running total in column B starting at B1. B1 would have the formula =sum($a$1:a1). Then copy this formula into the cells below B1, and you will have a running total of the numbers in column A. Try it and you will see how it works. b1 has =sum($a$1:a1) b2 has =sum($a$1:a2) b3 has =sum($a$1:a3) and so on. Mark On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Barry Premeaux bpreme...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Barry -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
-Original Message- From: Barry Premeaux bpreme...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:17 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Revised reply: Try this in F5 =IF(E5=0,0,SUM(F4,E5)) or probably better =IF(E5=,,SUM(F4,E5)) -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
-- Jim -Original Message- From: Barry Premeaux bpreme...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:17 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Try this in F5 =IF(E5=0,0,F4+E5) Translated, that says Barry -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Barry -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
Speaking as an accountant, I'm not sure why you would want the balance to show 0. Nevertheless, what you need is: =IF(E5=0,0,F4+E5) And, of course, you want to copy that to each cell in the F column. Dave Liesse Skingco Services, LLC On 4/13/2015 16:16, Barry Premeaux wrote: I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Barry -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Calc Question
Thank you. I will give this a try. I guess a better description might have been a basic check book. The balance cell is empty until an associated transaction is entered. Then it updates the balance to reflect the transaction just made. If F4 is current balance, a transaction entered in E5 updates F5 to reflect the new balance. F6, 7, 8.. are still blank. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Dave Liesse dslie...@liessefamily.net wrote: Speaking as an accountant, I'm not sure why you would want the balance to show 0. Nevertheless, what you need is: =IF(E5=0,0,F4+E5) And, of course, you want to copy that to each cell in the F column. Dave Liesse Skingco Services, LLC On 4/13/2015 16:16, Barry Premeaux wrote: I'm a novice at spreadsheets, and google hasn't turned up an answer. Probably because I haven't worded the question properly. I am trying to build a general ledger. I have my running balance in the F column and transactions in the E column. I am trying to construct a conditional statement that takes the running balance in F4 and adds it to the -/+ transaction in E5 and put the new balance in F5. But when the E5 is $0.00, I want F5 to remain $0.00 as well until a new transaction is entered. Barry -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
