Comments on: Using Row() in Array Formulas

By: DaveP

DaveP — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:00 +0000

Hello Icon

=SUMPRODUCT(LARGE($B$2:$N$2,ROW(1:6))) or equivalent
=SUMPRODUCT(LARGE($B$2:$N$2,{1;2;3;4;5;6}))

or Array Enter
=SUM(LARGE($B$2:$N$2,ROW(1:6)))

Row(1:6) is used to provide the series of numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6. Please see the information above.

By: Icon

Icon — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:23:00 +0000

Hi,
I tried the same formula but the data are in a row but it doesn't work for the function as below. (I changed ROW function to COLUMN) :
=SUM(LARGE($B$2:$G$2;COLUMN(1:6)))

Any idea?

By: KP

KP — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:14:00 +0000

How would one accomplish the ROW(INDIRECT()) using VB Script.

I am trying to convert my array formula into a VB user defined function and it keeps highlighting the ROW and INDIRECT functions.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:19:00 +0000

@TJ In cell AE12: =if(a1=”f”, 1,0)

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:55:00 +0000

I am trying to get excel to recognize a letter in a row as a number for instance if a1=f then ae12 will equal 1 can anybody help with this?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:28:00 +0000

Thanks, JPG. That got it to work.

By: Juan Pablo G

Juan Pablo G — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:48:00 +0000

Kevin,

You have to array enter (Use Control Shift Enter) the second one.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:28:00 +0000

Dick,
I can get the formula in C5 to work, but when I try the formula in C6 I get the same result as simply typing large(a3:a15,1). Am I missing something? Here is what I used:
This works:
=ROUND(AVERAGE(LARGE($B$23:$B$37,{1,2,3,4,5})),2)

This does not:
=SUM(LARGE($B$23:$B$37,ROW(1:5)))

By: Jonathan Rynd

Jonathan Rynd — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:33:00 +0000

I call those kinds of arrays “Array constants”, since they are not based on cells in the spreadsheet, but on the constant numbers, strings, booleans, and error values that you specify in the formula. (You can’t put a cell reference, or the result of a calculation, as a member of an array constant.)

By: Juan Pablo G

Juan Pablo G — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:19:00 +0000

If you want to confuse things a bit more, I tend to avoid using INDIRECT and OFFSET when possible, just because of their volatility, which, in large workbooks can create a real PITA.

To create an array like this what I usually do is:

ROW($A$1:INDEX($A:$A, C7))

Using the same cell that Dick uses in this example. If there's any chance that the user can insert a row before row 1 (which would mess this formula), I go with this:

ROW(INDEX($A:$A, 1):INDEX($A:$A, C7))