Excel索引+ if +间接

Question

I am helping a friend with a work task he's been given and can't figure out the last part. We are given a matrix with a list of workers / users in the following layout:

Location  | First Name | Last Name | Property 1 | Property 2 | Property 3 | .. | Property N
Frankfurt | Adam       | Schmidt   | X          |            | X          | .. | X,

ie the properties are in boolean form (X to indicate 'Yes', or empty to indicate 'No').

The task is to search all users based on Location + 1 property that we are able to select from the N properties, ie we have a drop-down menu somewhere with all properties 1,2,..,N where we can select exactly 1 of the properties.

The output should be the format: Location | First Name | Last Name.

So, my idea was to replace the standard IF(("array for criteria 1"= "criteria 1") * ("array for criteria 2" = "yes"), ...) with the ADDRESS of the property we select, which we then transformed from text value into cell reference using the INDIRECT function.

To give an example, if we select property 1 (located in column D) in the drop-down menu, the ADDRESS function will return $D$1 as the starting field, and $D$100 as the ending field. These fields are then used inside an INDIRECT function inside the main (long) search function.

I've seen from other posts on the internet that it is possible to use SUM(INDIRECT(cell with starting cell defined&":"&cell with ending cell defined)), so I tried something similar in my function, but it doesn't seem to work.

Here is a picture of the formula & layout of the excel file.

Answer 1

You should organize your sheet into 3 sections:

1. Data set
2. Criteria
3. Result Set

Follow the steps to create the button action for Search.

1. Navigate to 'Developer' tab.
2. Click on Insert > Button.
3. Draw a button. The 'Assign Macro' dialog box will be displayed.
4. Click on Record.
5. Enter the macro name as 'SearchRecords' and click on OK.
6. Click on any empty cell. Navigate to 'Data' tab.
7. In the 'Sort & Filter' section click on 'Advanced'.
8. Select 'Copy to another location' radio button and enter the range based on data set and criteria locations.

9. Click on OK.
10. Navigate to 'Developer' tab and click on 'Stop Recording'.
11. Rename the button to 'Search'.

Now you can update the search criteria and click on the search button to update the results in the adjacent location.

Answer 2

A much easier way would be to organize your input data as follows:

This data set is Pivot friendly. You can then create a Pivot Table of the data set. Move the Location and Property fields to the Report Filter section, the Full Name to the Row Labels section and the Location to the Values section.

Please note Full Name is just a concatenated value of 'First Name' & 'Last Name'.