Excel formula help (97 SR-2 on NT4.0)

[Wulfgar]

Gurus,

Please see attached file.

I need the value from the User column, which user column determined by the last non-zero data from the review column in the row.

Fer instance,

On line 2, formula would return 12939 from column H, because 711 in column G is the last non-zero review data in the row. But on line 9, formula would return 90002 from L, because 75 in K is the last non-zero review data in the row.

So, whatever the last review number is in the row, find the user number after it, and that should be result of the formula.

I've tried all sorts of things with the COLUMN function and such, but it's just not going. Any help? Oh, my users don't even know what VB stands for, so I can't wow them with any code. They need a formula they can understand.

[sdckapr]

Isn't it just 2 columns to the left or will there we some reviews with no values?

Formula in D2 is "=B2" in F2 is "=D2", etc?? copy the formula down the rows and then copy the columns
Or am i missing something?
Steve

[Wulfgar]

It won't work to just go 2 columns to the left, because there is a variable number of reviews per line, and I need the User for just the last review, wherever that review may fall. A max of 10 per line, but can easily be just 1.

[BAN]

If you enter this formula as an array, does that do what you want?

=OFFSET(N9,0,-(COUNTIF(A9:N9,0)))

[Wulfgar]

That's it! Thank you! It seems to work on all of the data!

Can you describe that formula in "pseudo-code" or just plain verbose type language? I'm not familiar with the OFFSET function, and arrays seem like magic to me.

[Wulfgar]

I got it!

Clever, clever!

Find the first zero, because the last review and user must be just before that, then offset -1 column from that and return the number.

Elegant!

[sdckapr]

Not quite.
Offset(Start, rows,columns)
Start at cell N9. Move 0 rows down, move to the left (-) the count of number of columns that have 0 in them.

Steve

[reimer]

Steve,

I did it by nesting IF statements. It does not exceed the limit.
=IF(M2>0,N2,IF(K2>0,L2,IF(I2>0,J2,IF(G2>0,H2,IF(F2 >0,F2,IF(C2>0,D2,IF(A2>0,B2,"nutin yet")))))))
Why would the Array formula be preferred?
Is the array approach better, performance wise?

Chuck

[sdckapr]

IFs can be very slow. I try to avoid them.

Steve

[Aladin Akyurek]

A non-volatile (thus less costly) formula would be...

=INDEX(A2:N2,MATCH(0,A2:N2,0)-1)