I find this example of modern day chat online very fascinating. I wonder how accurate this is with people in general? I definitely do NOT fit this mold, but I'm a long term, old school computer geek...
2010-09-28
2010-09-24
Excel 2007 Is Broken - Not
It's amazing how important placement is in a formula.
=IF( MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q > 365 ) , 365 , MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) )
The above formula is perfectly fine. If it's what you want. What you probably wanted was:
=IF( MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) > 365 , 365 , MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) )
Sadly, this is one of those quirks (in my case at least) where the proper value is returned if the formula exists on any row EXCEPT ROW A. I had three people looking at this formula (first one above) and none of us figured it out... until I typed the formula from scratch and asked myself "Why is my evaluation INSIDE the MAX?".
Duh. Fun fun. Not. I was so proud that I though I'd found an actual fault in Excel, too... (and for those curious, the data being checked sometimes has less than a year of rows -- I need to show one year, or less if needed)
=IF( MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q > 365 ) , 365 , MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) )
The above formula is perfectly fine. If it's what you want. What you probably wanted was:
=IF( MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) > 365 , 365 , MAX( RAW!$Q:$Q ) )
Sadly, this is one of those quirks (in my case at least) where the proper value is returned if the formula exists on any row EXCEPT ROW A. I had three people looking at this formula (first one above) and none of us figured it out... until I typed the formula from scratch and asked myself "Why is my evaluation INSIDE the MAX?".
Duh. Fun fun. Not. I was so proud that I though I'd found an actual fault in Excel, too... (and for those curious, the data being checked sometimes has less than a year of rows -- I need to show one year, or less if needed)
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