Shorten a formula

[Jeze77]

Ok, it sort of works...some days there may be values in column N that are
blank, the formula won't calculate unless all the cells in the range contains
a #. The file with the range comes from an outside source, to manually
update blank fields is too time consuming. Any suggestions?

Thank you for all of your help,
Jessica

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Sure, just need to swap a few negative signs. This should work (again enter
using Ctrl-Shift-Enter)

=INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,
IF(ISERROR(MATCH(-MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,
0)),MATCH(MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,
0),MATCH(-MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25, 0)))


HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Thanks Bernie.
Is there not a way for the negative to return?
That's what i keep getting stuck on and the reason i created such a long
formula, I need the negative to return first if available.

Jeze,

Use array formula (Enter using Ctrl-Shift-Enter)

=INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,
IF(ISERROR(MATCH(MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,
0)),MATCH(-MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,
0),MATCH(MIN(ABS([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25)), [NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25, 0)))

If you enter it correctly, Excel will curround it with curly braces {.....}s

Note that this formula will preferentially return the positive value if there is a tie between a
negative and positive for magnitude.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


Basically i want it to look up the value closest to 0 (in eighths) and return
the corresponding rate, since i'm dealing with negatives, this is the best
that i could come up with. The order is 0, -.125, +.125, -.25, +.25, -.375,
+.375, -.5, +.5, -.625, +.625, -.75 and so on.
My data table shows the rates i want returned in column A and its looking up
the values in column N.
I can only go as high as -.25, anything further I receive an error message
stating that the formula is too long.

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Use words to describe your data table(s), and what you want to do with the formula.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


How can i shorten this?

IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.125,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.125,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.25,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.25,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.375,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.375,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.5,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.5,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.625,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
IF(ISERROR(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.625,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.75,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.625,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.625,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.5,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.5,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.375,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.375,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.25,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.25,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0)),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0+0.125,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0-0.125,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))),
(INDEX([NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$A$16:$A$25,MATCH(0,[NEAST2_1.XLW]Sheet1!$N$16:$N$25,0))))))))))))