Find the text from a range of cells on the same row.

[andymalan]

Greetings esteemed and learned people of Excel. Please help me with a problem that I thought I could easily handle, by using the max formula.
I need to find the Height, Width and Depth of a series of cabinets.
Each row caters for one cabinet, resulting in only one of the cells to have a value, hence:
=MAX(DV2,EB2,EH2,EN2,ET2,EZ2,FF2,FL2,FR2,FX2,GD2,GJ2,GP2,GV2,HB2,HH2,HN2,HT2,HZ2,IF2)

The above formula to check for the height, the width and depth also have a max formula.

The trouble is, some of the formulas culminate with a text value, and others with a number value, causing the MAX formula to return a 0.

Much appreciation, and many thanks in advance.
Andy

 

[jasonb75]

Could you expand on this a little.

he trouble is, some of the formulas culminate with a text value, and others with a number value

Does that mean that the cells all contain formulas? If so it would be best to 'correct' those formulas so that they return valid numbers.

By text value, do you mean that some contain just a number, while others might contain a measurement, i.e. 600mm instead of 600?

 

[andymalan]

Dear Jason, thanks for your quick response.
here is a small sample of data for row 2.
FQ FR FS FT FU FW FX FY FZ GA
[TABLE="width: 682"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="class: xl71, width: 62"]Broom[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 62"]Height[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 62"]Width[/TD]
[TD="class: xl70, width: 62"]Depth[/TD]
[TD="class: xl68, width: 62"]Width[/TD]
[TD="class: xl69, width: 62"]0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl71, width: 62"]Grocery[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 62"]Height[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 62"]Width[/TD]
[TD="class: xl70, width: 62"]Depth[/TD]
[TD="class: xl68, width: 62"]Width[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

{FQ2}=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($FQ$1,$B2)), "Broom","") 'compares cell B2 with FQ2 and returns "Broom" if it is a match, else Nothing.

{FR2}=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($FQ$1,$B2)), 2300,"") 'compares cell B2 with FQ2 and returns "2300" if it is a match, else Nothing.

{FS2}=SUBSTITUTE(FU2,"mm"," ") 'Trims "mm" from the number returned

{FT2}=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($FQ$1,$B2)), 560,"")'compares cell B2 with FQ2 and returns "560" if it is a match, else Nothing.

{FU2}=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($FQ$1,$B2)), RIGHT($B2, 6),"") ' extracts part of the text from a cell.


The formulas above are repeated for every Cabinet on rows 2 to 1000

I then run a macro to copy everything on the sheet EXCEPTING the MAX formulas and paste as text.
Next, another macro runs to convert text that look like numbers to numbers
Finally Max should give me the results. Simple. I thought.

 

[jasonb75]

Looking at your formulas, it should be returning something, so best guess would be that the macros are not working as they should.

You say that you're pasting as text, I would suggest PasteSpecial - Values if that is not what you are currently using.

If you post your existing code we can help you to amend it as needed.