Hi All
Thanks for all the help offered by the Group - It's very much
appreciated!! And with this help - although I never got an exact answer
- I have been able to solve it!!
Basically my question could be broken down into three parts....
1) How do I work out what ROW NUMBER a given unique value is on?
2) How do I use this ROW NUMBER to make-up a valid CELL ADDRESS?
3) How do I get the VALUE in that CELL ADDRESS?
After a lot of trial and error - and with the pointers given to me by
the Group I was able to 'crack' it!!
1) For the ROW NUMBER I used MATCH. At first this did not give me what I
wanted as MATCH returns the ROW COUNT within a specified Array and NOT
the actual ROW NUMBER! Then it occurred to me that if I make the Array
the whole portion of the spreadsheet where the numbers are, starting at
Row 1, and not just there actual position of the values I wanted to
check in then the ROW COUNT returned by MATCH would in fact be the
actual ROW NUMBER!! Problem solved, so
"=MATCH(Unique Number,Array)"
Where - 'Unique Number' is a value I put in a fixed cell so I use this
Cell address and the 'Array' is the whole section of the Spreadsheet
where these numbers are, (ie I have the numbers 1 to 12 in positions A7
to A18 so for the Array I specify *A1*:A18 so that the ROW COUNT matches
the ROW NUMBER).
2) For the CELL ADDRESS I have a cell that identifies each COLUMN that
these values resides in (ie all my TOTALS are in COLUMN H), and I now
have the ROW COUNT of the data I'm looking for. So I can use
"=COLUMN ID & fixed ROW NUMBER"
3) The last step is to get the VALUE that is in the Cell at that
location. For this I used
"=INDIRECT (CELL ADDRESS)"
Perfect - PROBLEM SOLVED!!
I can now change ONE VALUE in a cell (ie this month I'm working with
December figures so I enter "12" into the cell), and ALL my values
change automatically for that month. No more endless Cutting and Pasting!!
Thanks again guys - I hope this explanation will be of interest to you
and maybe of use to other users trying to automate yearly figures to do
monthly analysis.
Ian Whitfield.
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