Still doesn't work. Back to the drawing board.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:32 PM, John Meyer
<johnme...@pueblocomputing.com>wrote:
> Derp, just saw that.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knu...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2013/9/30 John Meyer <johnme...@pueblocomputing.com>
>>
>> > Sorry, that e-mail got sent off too quickly. I'm trying this formula
>> >
>> > =COUNTIF(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1,3,1,,"Bonuses")).$E$1:$E2000,A2)
>> >
>> > C1 contains the name of the worksheet ("09-27-13") and I'm trying to use
>> > it. However, it keeps giving me an err:501.
>> >
>>
>> Hint 1:
>> Use the builtin help and search for 501. It will take you to the error
>> codes. 501 means something like ”invalid character”. In this case it seems
>> like you use ”,” instead of ”;” as parameter separators. I thought that
>> there was a setting for that somewhere, but now I can't find it, so I
>> guess
>> that is a LibreOffice feature, but I'm not sure. I used LibreOffice for a
>> couple of years but I am back with Apache OpenOffice again, since
>> LibreOffice was way too unstable for me. It actually destroyed one of my
>> spreadsheets but Apache OpenOffice fixed it for me, that's why I'm back…
>> :D
>>
>> Anyway, replace those commas with semi-colons and I think it will work.
>>
>> Hint 2:
>> If you are working with a big formula and it doesn't work, hit Ctrl+F2
>> (select the cell that you are working with first) and you are able to
>> study
>> your formula a little better. For instance you can see sub values by
>> placing the cursor on different places in the formula. That way it's a
>> little easier to find WHERE the error is.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Meyer
>> > <johnme...@pueblocomputing.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > > =COUNTIF(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1,3,1,,"Bonuses")).$E$1:$E2000,A2)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:18 PM, John Meyer <
>> > johnme...@pueblocomputing.com
>> > > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> So I guess I'm doing something wrong here.
>> > >>
>> > >> =COUNTIF(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1,3,1,,"Bonuses")).$E$1:$E2000,A2)
>> > >>
>> > >> Returns an Err:501.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Coreurus <coreu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> <
>> > >>> ----- Original Message --(Start-looking-by-there)
>> > >>> From: John Meyer >
>> > >>> To: <users@openoffice.apache.org>
>> > >>> Sent: Saturday, 28 September, 2013 04:40 PM
>> > >>> Subject: Re: VLOOKUP vs Macros
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> > I sent that a little too soon.
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> > The title refers to the fact that I was looking into another
>> > solution.
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> > the sales sheet for each day is broken down with the following
>> > >>> information:
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> > Date, EmpID
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> > Currently, what I am doing is separating them by date. However, I
>> > was
>> > >>> > thinking a much less cluttered solution would involve pulling the
>> > date
>> > >>> > from the bonus calculation field and then doing either a VLOOKUP
>> > with a
>> > >>> > count or Macro. Where would I start looking if I wanted to do
>> either
>> > >>> > one of those solutions?
>> > >>> > Back to searching for the answer.
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
>> > >>> >
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