Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:15 26/03/2013 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: That works well. I'll check it against real data today. The details of the numerical comparison are hidden from me with that equation ... I'm sure you'll be able to analyse the formula =VLOOKUP(A1;C$1:D$9;2) - but here goes. The array C1 to

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-27 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-03-27 20:47, Brian Barker wrote: At 07:15 26/03/2013 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: That works well. I'll check it against real data today. The details of the numerical comparison are hidden from me with that equation ... I'm sure you'll be able to analyse the formula

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-27 Thread Carl Paulsen
I too hadn't realized the value of the last parameter being 1 (meaning it takes the next number below). I had trouble getting the formula to work until I realized I had pasted the array from the email and some of the numbers were formatted as text, others not, so I was getting almost all

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:43 27/03/2013 -0400, Carl Paulsen wrote: I too hadn't realized the value of the last parameter being 1 (meaning it takes the next number below). I had trouble getting the formula to work until I realized I had pasted the array from the email and some of the numbers were formatted as

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-26 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 03/25/13 21:48, Brian Barker wrote: I trust this helps. That works well. I'll check it against real data today. The details of the numerical comparison are hidden from me with that equation but I'll read up on it more now that I now I'm going in the right direction. I must have had

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-25 Thread Carl Paulsen
Oops, sent this to the original sender, not the list: Please clarify: I haven't had any luck figuring out a method to compare each element of a list of numbers to each element of a differently sized list of numbers. What I want would bo something very much like VLOOKUP, but instead of

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-25 Thread Dave Liesse
I agree that the original question is a little confusing. What everybody seems to have forgotten in their replies, though, is that if the lookup list is sorted then a non-match will be treated as if it matched the next lower value (for example, looking up 6 in a list of odd numbers will

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:32 25/03/2013 -0700, Dave Liesse wrote: I agree that the original question is a little confusing. What everybody seems to have forgotten in their replies, though, ... I don't think anyone has had the chance to forget anything: you have yet to tell us exactly what you are trying to do.

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-25 Thread Jason C. Wells
OK. Take two. Since VLOOKUP for numbers with an inequality is not meaningful, what I precisely hope to do is this. I hope that the preformatted columns survive the mailer software. Give the following columns: A B C D --- --- --- --- 1.1 eqn 3 0.10

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:17 25/03/2013 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: OK. Take two. Since VLOOKUP for numbers with an inequality is not meaningful, ... It will do what you require, I think. ... what I precisely hope to do is this. I hope that the preformatted columns survive the mailer software. Give the

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 03/25/2013 12:15 AM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I haven't had any luck figuring out a method to compare each element of a list of numbers to each element of a differently sized list of numbers. What I want would bo something very much like VLOOKUP, but instead of matching strings, it would

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP for Numbers

2013-03-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:15 24/03/2013 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: I haven't had any luck figuring out a method to compare each element of a list of numbers to each element of a differently sized list of numbers. What I want would do something very much like VLOOKUP, but instead of matching strings, it would