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Good Morning I want to select UNIQUE RANDOM text from some rows (say names) based on condition like good/average employee and number of employees.
Solved by V. S. in 15 mins
Excel changes the width of columns and rows upon saving and reopening files that worked great for years until a few days ago when it started having this issue at random. Office 365 Home on windows 10 with latest updates running on ASUS laptop with more than enough capabilities for all common applications. Tried disabling autofit columns, tried turning off all protected view settings... at a loss
Solved by D. U. in 14 mins
Hello. I am trying to match columns to find missing numbers. For example I have column A with numbers 0-9 in a random order and column B with numbers 2,6,7,8 and I want to know the missing numbers in between how do I do this? I actually am comparing 3000 students but this was easier to describe
Solved by X. U. in 11 mins
Cells B3:b8 hold the date 06/07/2018 Cells B9:b13 hold the date 07/07/2018 Cells B14:b19 hold the date 08/07/2018 Column c3:c19 holds some random values, [=RANDBETWEEN(1,6000)] Cell c11 holds the value 5000. Cell D3 Holds the value 5000 Cell E3 holds the formula =B3 [resolving to 06/072018] Cell G3 holds the formula =b3+1 [resolving to 07/072018] Cell i3 holds the formula =b3+2 [resolving to 08/072018] I want to know if the value 5000 in D3 appears at all in column C for 06/07/2018 then return a flag in Cell F3. If the value 5000 in D3 appears at all in column C for 07/07/2018 return a flag in Cell H3.
Solved by K. A. in 11 mins
Hello, I am working with a large temperature data set which has data points at certain intervals apart. The time intervals change throughout the data set and I was wondering if there was any way I could bin the values so that they are averaged to every hour as opposed to the random intervals which they are at now? The Date Time data has a (M/D/YY H:M) setup
Solved by E. C. in 11 mins
I hope I explain this correctly C5 = todays date Column M = Has this formula =IF(I2="","",I2-C$5) it calculates the difference in days from a random date + it also has conditional formatting. Column I = The Random date Column F = Conditional formatting if M<8 its red and if M is between 30 and 8 and its yellow(same for column M) It works fine. I would like to have a button that will add a blank row below the row I’m working in and input the formula and conditional formatting accordingly. I have tried to record a macro and searched for advise but have had no luck. I hope you can help.
Solved by A. J. in 23 mins
I have a training spreadsheet that assigns levels of competency to each employee. I want to be able to count how many employees are competent in each department for that particular competency but since they have random reviews, I only want to count the most recent level competency for the employee, not multiple levels. What's the formula for that?
Solved by K. H. in 11 mins
I need to use random code generator to translate some number codes into its relevant worded terminology, I have a sheet of all the codes to be referenced. I thought a VLOOKUP would work but I need whatever number is in the cell to be referenced and translated, I couldn't specify what number that is in the first place and it is a random list of numbers, not formatted in ascending order. Thanks
Solved by D. F. in 19 mins
I have two Pivot charts in my excel document, they have the same detail just one is per month and the other is per year. I want the Columns to be the same colour for each area , but the colours are random depending on the order of the data found.File is too large to attach
Solved by K. J. in 19 mins
I need a set of fixed sample data of 1618 from a dynamic population. The number 1618 needed is constant for every week, however the population might vary. The sample data is random but there are 2 criteria in which i need the result.
Solved by V. J. in 27 mins