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The file homework8.xlsx contains a list of flight information in columns A, B, and C. The list includes origin, destination, and flight #s of each flight. You are interested in flights that leave from any city in column E and end up at any city in column F. You need to list such flights in columns H, I, and J with their respective data. (see below for example) Write a VBA program using 1 dimensional arrays to do this. Your code should work even if the lists change. Helpful hints: Count the number of flights in Column A Counts the number of flightOrigins (column E) in the origin search list. Counts the number of flightDestinations (column F) in the destination search list. Redimension all arrays (for flights and for searches) - remember the # of flights may change. Captures the flight information in columns A to C in spearate arrays. Captures the search information in columns E and F in separate arrays. Initializes the number of matches seen so far to 0. Go through all combinations of search origins and search destinations. Go through all flights and search for matches When a match has been found. Update the number of matches found so far, then record the information on this flight in columns H to J. Create a button on the spreadsheet to run the app Create a button on the spreadsheet to clear the results in columns H to J
Solved by M. Q. in 18 mins
The file homework8.xlsx contains a list of flight information in columns A, B, and C. The list includes origin, destination, and flight #s of each flight. You are interested in flights that leave from any city in column E and end up at any city in column F. You need to list such flights in columns H, I, and J with their respective data. (see below for example) Write a VBA program using 1 dimensional arrays to do this. Helpful hints: Count the number of flights in Column A Counts the number of flightOrigins (column E) in the origin search list. Counts the number of flightDestinations (column F) in the destination search list. Redimension all arrays (for flights and for searches) - remember the # of flights may change. Captures the flight information in columns A to C in spearate arrays. Captures the search information in columns E and F in separate arrays. Initializes the number of matches seen so far to 0. Go through all combinations of search origins and search destinations. Go through all flights and search for matches When a match has been found. Update the number of matches found so far, then record the information on this flight in columns H to J.
Solved by C. U. in 23 mins
The file homework8.xlsx contains a list of flight information in columns A, B, and C. The list includes origin, destination, and flight #s of each flight. You are interested in flights that leave from any city in column E and end up at any city in column F. You need to list such flights in columns H, I, and J with their respective data. Use 1 dimensional arrays to do this. The code should count the # of flights in column A count the number of flight origins in E count the number of destinations in F redimension all the arrays for flights and searches because the number of flights may change. Capture flight info in columns A to C in separate arrays (an array for each column) Capture search information in E and F in separate arrays (for each column)
Solved by G. Q. in 14 mins
I've been trying to use the COUNTIF function to extract the number of occurrences of a particular word CONTAINED in a bunch of cells by referencing an outside cell. It works fine if I enter the search parameters manually like this: =COUNTIF(B2:B443,"*wabigoon*") but instead of entering 'Wabigoon' or something else, I want to reference a cell that contains the word Wabigoon or whatever other word I wish to search. Any thoughts?
Solved by E. Y. in 27 mins
Hi, I'm looking to create a from by typing in the reg and it pulling through the data from the data tab. I've tried this as a VLookup but it only pulls through the first line and there may be more than one line under each reg for repair history. I tried doing this as a pivot table, but I don't like the layout of it and wanted to be able to type in a reg and it search for the data rather than filtering. I've tried a combination of both by creating a macro to copy the data from cell A1, refresh the data in the pivot table, filtering by pasting the results from A1 then copying the relevant data I require onto the form tab. It works, but when I change the reg it remembers the actual reg text from the macro rather than the act of copying and pasting the data in A1 from the form. Can you help me please?
Solved by K. J. in 14 mins
i want to do an index, match search. one of the criteria i want to match is a date which is formatted as MMM-YY (Worksheet "Index Returns" Cell $C$1) against a column of dates formatted as 1/01/2017 (Worksheet "BSG_Subj_RTN" Cell $A$266). If the formatting were reversed, I would simply take my numeric date and translate it to a 'text'... but I do not seem to be able to take a column of numeric dates and covert them to a text. What do you recommend?
Solved by O. S. in 13 mins
Spreadsheet attached: I want to use Index, Match to find the appropriate benchmark values for a given date. My problem is that the date I am searching for is formatted as: MMM-YY and the column I need to search is formatted: 01/01/2017. The spreadsheet I am working with is attached. the first worksheet ("Index Returns") I am trying to fill with values from BSG_Subj_Rtn. If the formats were reversed I could search using Text ...but this does not seem to work when searching an entire column. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
Solved by V. U. in 23 mins
See attached Workbook. I need to fill in the blanks on Sheet("Index Return") with data from Sheet ("BSG_Subj_Rtn"). Let's look, For example .. in Index Return Sheet: I need to find the value of cell C6 or the performance for the MSCI Eafe Index Net for January 2017. On Sheet BSG_Subj_Rtn, this value is Cell J814. I think I need to use an Index...Match formula but I am finding issue with this because the Index range is not contiguous (A1:j1, A550:j823) and I have to compare a date configured as MMM-YY with one 1/1/2017. This is something that is downloaded from a 3rd party source monthly - so if I can avoid adding columns to BSG_Subj_Rtn to do this search, that would be preferable. Any thoughts much appreciated. Thank you in advance
Solved by V. U. in 19 mins
I have 2 worksheets. I need to figure out how to search for the date in cell $c$4 in "Index Returns" in worksheet "BSG_Subj_Rtn Column A . The first is formatted Jan-17 and the column I am searching is formatted 1/1/2017. Second question. Can I search a noncontinuous range? In otherwords, if I wanted to search BSG_Subj_Rtn using the header row (A1:J1 and data A:550:J823)... using Index...Match. is that doable?
Solved by E. H. in 11 mins
i want data search automatically when a data is entered
Solved by E. D. in 16 mins