如何使Excel公式跳过空单元格

Question

I have a spreadsheet with data in a single row. The data is arranged by year with the earliest date in the right most cell and the latest date in the far left cell.

What I need is a formula that will begin looking at the cells beginning on the right (earlier date) and move to the left toward a later date skipping the empty cells. As soon as it finds data in one of the cells I need it to stop and show the value in that cell.

I have attached a picture as an example, in that picture I need it to begin at the cell for 2003 and begin moving left ignoring empty cells until it finds a cell with data. In this case the cell for 2005 contains data. I need it to copy that value ($2.43) and place it in the cell marked earliest value.

In the pictue I manually entered 2.43 in the cell for 2005 to show what i need.!

Answer 1

You can use LOOKUP function to get the last value in a row, so if you have years in A1:J1 and dollar amounts in A2:J2 just use this formula to get the last numeric value from A2:J2

=LOOKUP(9.99E+307,A2:J2)

9.99E+307 is [almost] the largest value that Excel allows, when you use that "big num" as lookup value the result is the last number in the range

Answer 2

I made two ranges, starting E4 to J4, I place 1,2,3,4,5,6. Below (thus range: E5-J5) I placed 6,5,4,3,2,1.

In a random cell I placed this formula:

=INDEX(E5:J5,MATCH(MIN(E4:J4),E4:J4,0))

This look in E4:J4 for the number that matched MIN(E4:J4), thus the lowest number. Then selects that value, matching the index, in the range E5:J5.

Answer 3

As follows from your image - year should be less than 10 yr history . In that case try following formula (I suppose that your data ( years and values) are in B3:X4 range):

=HLOOKUP(MIN(IF((B4:X4<>"")*(B3:X3>YEAR(NOW())-10),B3:X3)),B3:X4,2,0)

Note, that it is an array formula, so you need to press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER to evaluate it.

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If you don't need to use condition year should be less than 10 yr history , just remove *(B3:X3>YEAR(NOW())-10) from the formula:

=HLOOKUP(MIN(IF(B4:X4<>"",B3:X3)),B3:X4,2,0)

and press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER to evaluate it.