Using indirect to refer to a row

laurafv

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Hello,

I have a list of employees (one person per row). The columns are attendance to events (each attendance has a different number), and I would like to create a table that sumarises the attendance ranked chronologically.

To do so, I would need that in the formula below instead of the red part (now referring to row 7) there is a link to another cell that I have set so that it automatically finds the row corresponding to an employee. Would an indirect formula work? how? I tried with no success...

=match(C5,'v2'!7:7,0)


Thanks in advance,
Laura
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=MATCH(C5,INDEX('v2'!A:IV,anothercell,0),0)

Another cell is a cell containing the 7

Change IV to XFD if in XL2007+
Or better, change IV to the last occupied column of the v2 sheet.
 
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Thanks! tomorrow I will try at the office and let you know if it works :)
I dont want to use a pivot table because the dataset is not in the right format (each column is an event), but maybe I will have to investigate if this is a better option...
 
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thanks, it works you saved my project :)!

Try

=MATCH(C5,INDEX('v2'!A:IV,anothercell,0),0)

Another cell is a cell containing the 7

Change IV to XFD if in XL2007+
Or better, change IV to the last occupied column of the v2 sheet.
 
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