Comments on: Getting the last value

By: Val

Val — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:25:20 +0000

I have been trying to use this formula to pull the last text value from a column in a spreadsheet to another spreadsheet, which is my Summary Page.

Is there a specific formula that someone can write out for me that will find the last entered text in a cell within a column in one spreadsheet and show that text in another spreadsheet?

Help! I am not an Excel Guru.

Thanks for your suggestions.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:06:39 +0000

I tried the formula to find the last value in a column. Every cell in the column does not have an entry, for example, the column goes from G4:G100 and there are some 30 enttries, however, based on another worksheet that feeds into the G4:G100, the values and location of data change. I still need to find the last numeric value in the “G” Column. When I use the formula above I get a #NULL! result.

thank you for your time and consideration.

By: Gordon Hinds

Gordon Hinds — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:16:00 +0000

In response to the error returned when you put the numeric formula in its own column.
This can be avoided if you can specify the range of rows you are searching within that column.
Example =INDEX(G2:G39,MATCH(9.99999999999999E+307,G2:G39))
For when you want the result to be in the same column.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:55:00 +0000

In #3 above, you can use the formula in C3.

By: antonio laguna

antonio laguna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:40:00 +0000

How can i find the last value in a row that have cells with !N/A#?

Thanks a lot

By: Jim Thomas

Jim Thomas — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:06:00 +0000

hello everyone, trying to move multi lines of almost identical data from one sheet to another sheet for formatting. 1 to 150 lines all identical except purchase qtys and purchase order line number. over 400 part numbers to move. any ideas how to do a vlookup like function on multi lines and multi rows without being stuck using pivot tables?

By: Jim Wilcox

Jim Wilcox — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:47:00 +0000

Thanks for the formula to grab the last text entry in a column, BUT I am also working with a column that is formatted for DATE. Is there a similar function to grab the last date in a cloumn?
Thanks.

By: Julius Heilman

Julius Heilman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:23:00 +0000

I'm trying to get the formula to return the second last value (3rd last, 4th last, etc) for any type of value. For numeric values the formula =LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,A1:INDEX(A1:Z1,MATCH(9.99999999999999E+307,A1:Z1)-1)) works.

I have tried =LOOKUP(2,1/(1-ISBLANK(D46:IG46)),D46:INDEX(D46:IG46,LOOKUP(2,1/(1-ISBLANK(D46:IG46)),D46:IG46)-1)), but am getting an error.

Any help would be appriciated.

By: Jaime Hincapie

Jaime Hincapie — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:16:00 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. it makes more sense now

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:37:00 +0000

Jaime: Actually it does matter. If you change

A1:A65536

A1:A10

, you'll see that 1 and 2 as the lookup value give different results. When there are ties, such as a 1 in the lookup value and more than one 1 in the lookup vector, which 1 it returns is unpredictable. However, since 2 will always be greater than anything in this lookup vector, you know it will always return the last 1. Any number above 2 will work exactly the same as 2.

Here's another formula, just for the record

{=INDEX(A1:A10,MAX(NOT(ISBLANK(A1:A10))*(ROW(A1:A10)),1))}