Hi Russ, If it is possible and do not have any data sharing issue, then please share the spreadsheet with the group. Alternatively, you can provide the dummy scenario(s) as well. We all are here to learn and explore the vast features and capabilities of Excel, and these type of practical problems will help our group to learn.
Thanks, DILipandey -- DILIP KUMAR PANDEY MBA-HR,B COM(Hons.),BCA Mobile: +91 9810929744 dilipan...@gmail.com dilipan...@yahoo.com New Delhi - 110062 On 7/24/09, Dinsdale <russ.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to apologize if this has been answered in another thread, > but I could not find it in the searches I was doing. Maybe I was > searching the wrong thing... > > I am a software developer trying to create a temporary solution to a > problem using Excel 2007. One of our divisions needs to track a parent/ > child relationship and get a count of the child items per parent. > > The first spreadsheet has the parent items that includes a License > Number, Name, <other info>, a cancellation date and a count of the > child elements. > > The second spreadsheet contains the child elements in no particular > order. The child records contain the parent license number, name, > <other info>, and a cancellation date. > > We are looking at having the count field in the parent record count > the child items by license number, where the (child) cancellation date > is blank. We can achieve this using the COUNTIFS() function as such: > > =COUNTIFS(ChildCells!A$2:A$65536,A2,ChildCells!D$2:D$65536,"" ) > > Where cells A2:A65536 are the parent license numbers and cells > D2:D65536 are the child cancellation dates. > > The main issue I see with this is that the users must copy and paste > the formula into the "count cell" every time a new row is added and, > quite frankly, I don't trust them to do it correctly. > > Does anyone know of a more "eligant" or "user proof" method to do > this? I am not against writing VBA macros, but I'm not sure where to > start. > > Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Dinsdale > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 5,200 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
