Help, need best formula to use for Total to show last date updated in previous columns

[Jeremiah]

PROBLEM: "Too many arguments!!!" IF/OR/AND/THEN Formula or is there a more appropriate formula I need?

Please help fix!!!!

=if(and(if(e2>d2,"out","break",c2>b2,"transfer","In")))

This is what I'm trying to do, kindly assist, very important, project depends on it, just can't get it right...

I have 5 teams deployed on different projects and I need the UPDATE Column to automatically indicate the status of the last date inputed on previous rows per team column.

For example:
Red 1 last updated their chart on 6/20/2010 when they took a break


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[hiker95]

Jeremiah,

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	Team	In	Transfer	Break	Out	Status
2	RED 1	2/1/2010	3/15/2010	6/20/2010		Break
3	BLUE 2					In
4	GREEN 3	1/15/2010	4/20/2010			Transfer
5	YELLOW 4	2/1/2010	6/5/2010	7/15/2010	9/30/2010	Out
6	PINK 5	1/4/2010		8/20/2010		Break
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The formula in cell F2 copied down:

=IF(SUM($B2:$E2),LOOKUP(2,1/(($B2:$E2)*($B2:$E2>0)),$B$1:$E$1),"In")

 

[Peter_SSs]

Hi Peter,

I tried =IFERROR(LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,B2:E2,B$1:E$1),$B$1)

but didn't work.... did I do it wrong?

This is what I got...

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F[/B]
1	Team	In	Transfer	Break	Out	Status
2	RED 1	1/10/2010		20/06/2010		A
3	BLUE 2					B
4	GREEN 3	15/01/2010	20/04/2010			A
5	YELLOW 4	1/2/2010	5/6/2010	15/07/2010	30/09/2010	A
6	PINK 5	4/1/2010				C
Sheet

I'm afraid I can't see how you could possibly get those results from that formula.

1. What version of Excel are you using?

2. Your dates seem to have changed format between your first post (m/d/yyyy) and your last post (some cells d/m/yyyy and some cells d/mm/yyyy). Are they actually dates? Why aren't they formatted uniformly? What is your normal date format?

3. =IFERROR(LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,B2:E2,B$1:E$1),$B$1)
What actual cell in your sheet is this formula in?

4. What cell is the word 'Team' in? It appears that it should be in cell A1, but I'm wondering if those A, B, C etc across the top of your table are actually in cells in your sheet rather than being Excel's native column labels?

Here is my sheet with the data and that fromula in cell F2, then copied down column F to cell F6. My dates are in d/mm/yyyy format.

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	Team	In	Transfer	Break	Out	Status
2	RED 1	1/10/2010		20/06/2010		Break
3	BLUE 2					In
4	GREEN 3	15/01/2010	20/04/2010			Transfer
5	YELLOW 4	1/02/2010	5/06/2010	15/07/2010	30/09/2010	Out
6	PINK 5	4/01/2010				In
Sheet9