
MS Excel Tips
I use MS Excel a lot in a day for reviewing financial reports, client proposals, analysis of market data and so on. Beyond simple calculations, charts I find working with Excel especially formulas to be difficult. Most of the time when that happens Google or Bing comes to rescue. In this post I plan to write down the tips that I used which I hope will be useful to others and to myself in future.
When we want to do a summary sheet in a Excel file, bringing the last value in a particular range of cells (say a column).
For picking the last non empty number from a range of cells, 9.999* is the largest number in Excel
=VLOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,A:A,1)
For picking the last value from a range of cells, works for me for Date values as well
=OFFSET($A$1,COUNT(A:A),0)
For picking the last value from a range of cells, in the below case the range is from another sheet
=OFFSET('Sheet1'!$A$1,COUNT('Sheet1'!A:A),0)


3 Comments
S Krupa Shankar
My favorite is activesheet.usedrange.rows.count :>
Kannan
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venkatarangan
My iPad2 after the repair is working fine. As good as new. Just remember Apple warranty is void once you give it to a third-party for service.