If/Match/Max formula

[NileUk]

Hi guys

Trying to get a formula to work, and failing....again!

So I've got this far and can't understand why its not working, did tests as I went along, but now it's coming up with a result of '0' Dunno why?

The Formula is as follows

=IF(AND(MATCH(C5,[Quote '#],0),([Customer Name]=C6)),MAX([Customer '#]),MAX([Customer '#])+1)

I haven't started on the formula for the Job # cells yet but if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

heres a pic of the spreadsheet.

Kind Regards

Nile

 

[jasonb75]

Best guess would be that you actually need a {=MAX(IF(.....))} formula but that is just a guess at the moment, nothing more.

Try posting your sample with XL2BB (link in my signature below this post) and typing the relevant information into the post (a description of what the formula should do and the results expected based on the example).

Your existing formula makes no sense and your screen capture is illegible due to the resolution. Also, it would be of no use if we need to test formulas on the data as we can not copy it to excel easily.

 

[NileUk]

Best guess would be that you actually need a {=MAX(IF(.....))} formula but that is just a guess at the moment, nothing more.

Try posting your sample with XL2BB (link in my signature below this post) and typing the relevant information into the post (a description of what the formula should do and the results expected based on the example).

Your existing formula makes no sense and your screen capture is illegible due to the resolution. Also, it would be of no use if we need to test formulas on the data as we can not copy it to excel easily.

Hi Jason

thanks for your reply.

I cant install XLB2B as im running XL 2007. Ill try and make the jpeg bigger.

 

[jasonb75]

I cant install XLB2B as im running XL 2007.

Other people use it with 2007.

 

[NileUk]

Hi Jason

thanks for your reply.

I cant install XLB2B as im running XL 2007. Ill try and make the jpeg bigger.

 

[jasonb75]

I think that you missed a bit of info in post 4.

I think that you're going to end up with serious circular reference errors trying to do that with formulas. As I said earlier, formulas can't be tested on screen captures. Without a usable sample, I very much doubt that anyone would be willing to attempt this.

On a side note, the info at the bottom of the screen capture suggests that this could be a course assignment, in which case you would possibly have had some instruction on the method that you will be expected to use, any suggestions that we make would likely use significantly different methods.

 

[Toadstool]

Hi NileUK,

I see @jasonb75 called it in post #6 as you subsequently made a duplicate post asking to resolve a circular reference (which would return a zero).

I don't think we're seeing the whole story. I can imagine this may be a VBA exercise but I can't see how you can populate the table using just formulae.

 

[NileUk]

Hi guys

Trying to get a formula to work, and failing....again!

So I've got this far and can't understand why its not working, did tests as I went along, but now it's coming up with a result of '0' Dunno why?

The Formula is as follows

=IF(AND(MATCH(C5,[Quote '#],0),([Customer Name]=C6)),MAX([Customer '#]),MAX([Customer '#])+1)

I haven't started on the formula for the Job # cells yet but if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

heres a pic of the spreadsheet.

Kind Regards

Nile

Hi NileUK,

I see @jasonb75 called it in post #6 as you subsequently made a duplicate post asking to resolve a circular reference (which would return a zero).

I don't think we're seeing the whole story. I can imagine this may be a VBA exercise but I can't see how you can populate the table using just formulae.

Hi Fluff

I don't know what you mean by you are not seeing the whole story? I opened a new thread as I was doing something wrong uploading the mini sheet into the orinal thread so opened a new one. I now know what I was doing wrong. Many appologies. Jasonb75 seemed to think this is some sort of course work, but its nothing of the sort I'm trying to get my business accounting sorfware up and running and keep coming up agasinst formula or vba issues that are way above my current coding knowledge.

Help please.xlsx
	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
4				Table1
5	Quote #	Q10404		Quote #	Customer #	Customer Name	Job #	# of engineers	hourly Rate	Total Hours	Job Value	Material Costs
6	Customer	Meg Ryan		Q10395	45051	Fred Dibner	1	1	£ 20.00	16	£ 360.00	£ 40.00
7	hourly Rate	£ 25.00		Q10396	45052	Peter Jones	1	1	£ 25.00	4	£ 186.00	£ 86.00
8	# of engineers	2		Q10397	45051	Fred Dibner	2	2	£ 20.00	32	£ 820.00	£ 180.00
9	total hrs	50		Q10398	45053	Alexi Sale	1	2	£ 25.00	24	£ 860.00	£ 260.00
10	Material Costs	£ 250.00		Q10399	45051	Fred Dibner	3	1	£ 20.00	4	£ 95.00	£ 15.00
11	Job Value	£ 1,500.00		Q10400	45054	John Belushi	1	1	£ 25.00	8	£ 237.00	£ 37.00
12				Q10401	45055	Joan Armatrading	1	2	£ 20.00	16	£ 389.00	£ 69.00
13				Q10402		Fred Dibner					£ -
14				Q10403	45051	Fred Dibner	4	1	£ 20.00	48	£ 1,170.00	£ 210.00
15				Q10404	0	Meg Ryan					£ -
16				Q10405	45056	Neil Young	1	2	£ 25.00	16	£ 550.00	£ 150.00
17				Q10406	45057	Meg Ryan	1	1	£ 25.00	16	£ 539.00	£ 139.00
18				Q10407	45053	Alexi Sale	2	1	£ 25.00	8	£ 269.00	£ 69.00
19				Q10408	45057	Meg Ryan	2	1	£ 25.00	4	£ 145.00	£ 45.00
20				Q10409		John Belushi					£ -
21				Q10410	45051	Fred Dibner	5	1	£ 20.00	4	£ 110.00	£ 30.00
Sheet1

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
C11	C11	=C9*C7+C10
F15	F15	=IF(AND(MATCH(C5,[Quote '#],0),([Customer Name]=C6)),MAX([Customer '#]),MAX([Customer '#])+1)
L6:L21	L6	=K6*J6+M6

 

[Toadstool]

Hi NileUK,

It was I who suggested we're not seeing the whole story because it appears as if you're trying to populate a database from the values you put in C5 to C11 but Functions do not provide persistence across recalculations. If you populate E15 to M15 for Meg Ryan then when you try and populate John Belushi the values in C5 to C11 will also change for Meg Ryan.

You will need a VBA solution which is beyond my skills.