Comments on: Quick Counting in Excel

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Q3 Stats Update » Code For Excel And Outlook Blog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:02:00 +0000

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By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:28:00 +0000

Good tip, I cant belive I've been counting columns like a fool for so long! thanks Dick
Ross

By: JP

JP — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:13:00 +0000

Thanks Dick for another mention of the add-in. The SSNs are generated using the Rnd() function as follows:

= (Int((999 - 100 + 1) * Rnd + 100)) & "-" & (Int((99 - 10 + 1) * Rnd + 10)) & "-" & (Int((9999 - 1000 + 1) * Rnd + 1000))

No actual SSNs or other data was used in the creation of this add-in. Any resemblance to actual SSNs or living people is coincidence. Except for Ms. Farmer of Bristol, MS, please accept my humblest apologies.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:28:00 +0000

They're probably real for somebody, but if they match up with those names that'd be one heck of a coincidence. They came from JP's random data generator. http://www.codeforexcelandoutlook.com/blog/2009/02/random-sample-data-generator-add-in-for-excel-now-available/

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:34:00 +0000

If you select more than a page of cells, the dimensions move from the name box to a tooltip under the mouse cursor.
While I don't mind the dimensions appearing against the mouse cursor, I wish they'd leave it in the name box instead of making it blank!

By: chet

chet — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:35:00 +0000

I hope those SSN’s aren’t real.

By: Jon von der Heyden

Jon von der Heyden — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:51:00 +0000

If I always want to return the last column then I tend to use:

=VLOOKUP(5,A2:M21,COLUMNS(A:M),0)

I think it's a little safer because if a user inserts a column between A:M then using the columns function will automatically reference the 10th column. Using a constant can be risky business and yield incorrect results.

By: geoff

geoff — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Me three. Although if there’s enough columns I’ll use MATCH on the header row.

By: Rick Williams

Rick Williams — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:10:00 +0000

It’s funny how similarly people work sometimes, despite having developed their own techniques themselves. Call it parallel invention.

I use the same method when writing VLOOKUPs too.