Referring to last row with data in it

[travis]

I could write a VBA macro to do this, but I'm hoping there is a
simpler method.

I've got a spreadsheet with several bank statements in it. Column A
of each sheet with a bank statement is dates, column C is the account
balance.

On the cover page I've got a summary table with hyperlinks to each of
the respective bank accounts, I've got something close to what I want
by using formulae similar to the following

=VLOOKUP(MAX('ANZ Bank Statement'!A:A),'ANZ Bank Statement'!A:C,
3,FALSE)

i.e. look up the value in the third row which is next to the latest
date.

Works fine if the latest day has only a single transaction, but if
there were several transactions that day it will show the first of the
final day's transactions, not the last of the final day's
transactions, so my formula doesn't necessarily show the latest value
of the bank account.

I spent a bit of time yesterday writing a complex looping macro for a
different problem before realising that I could achieve the same
result by using Excel 2007's SUMIFS function. This was good because
it meant the table would auto update without having to run a macro or
set a resource-hogging "on change" event trigger or something.

But I'm trying to figure out how to get it to always refer to the last
of the rows.

The following SUMIFS will add up all the values on the last date,
which isn't what I want. I could add a second condition though, how
would I specify "and if the value in the following row is blank" or
some equivalent condition?

=SUMIFS('ANZ Bank Statement'!C:C,'ANZ Bank Statement'!A:A,MAX('ANZ
Bank Statement'!A:A))

Travis

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

I may be missing something here but on the assumption dates are entered
sequentially in column A don't you really want the last value in Column C
regardless of date.

if so try this

=LOOKUP(10^23,'ANZ Bank Statement'!C:C)

Now if someone has more than 10^23 dollars/pounds in the account this fails

Mike

 

[travis]

Hi,

I may be missing something here but on the assumption dates are entered
sequentially in column A don't you really want the last value in Column C
regardless of date.
Yep

if so try this

=LOOKUP(10^23,'ANZ Bank Statement'!C:C)

Now if someone has more than 10^23 dollars/pounds in the account this fails

It worked. Thanks. Now I'm curious about *why* that worked!?

Travis

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

Glad I could help. It worked because 10^23 is a very large number that I was
fairly confident wouldn't be found in Column C. Because it didn't find it the
formula returned the last numeric value.

Mike

 

[travis]

And by the way there is a related problem which I'm not sure can be
solved as simply as the lookup(big number,range) trick.

I want to produce a table showing the closing account balance at the
end of every month.

There may be no transaction between the 20th and the 3rd, but I'm not
worried about accrued interest so in that case I'd take the value on
the 20th.

This would enable me to show my historical end of month cash levels.

Travis

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I believe this array-entered** formula will do what you want...

=INDEX(C:C,MATCH(ROW(A1),MONTH(A$1:A$2500)))

** Commit the formula using Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just Enter by itself

Place the formula in a cell, change the 2500 row reference to the maximum
row number you ever expect to have data in, and then copy it down for 11
more rows.

 

[travis]

This would enable me to show my historical end of month cash levels.

Actually, I figured this one out for myself.

Inspired by your lookup idea, I found that
vlookup(EOMonth(date),range,offset,TRUE) gave me the answer I was
looking for.

Travis

 

[travis]

I believe this array-entered** formula will do what you want...

=INDEX(C:C,MATCH(ROW(A1),MONTH(A$1:A$2500)))

** Commit the formula using Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just Enter by itself

Place the formula in a cell, change the 2500 row reference to the maximum
row number you ever expect to have data in, and then copy it down for 11
more rows.

How would I do this with VBA?

Travis