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I'm an Excel numpty, so don't know if this is possible

I have a spreadsheet and one one sheet are all my invoices and payments with dates against them in a separate column. I also have a balance sheet on a different sheet with a rolling date down the left hand column, then various columns for costs/payments/vat etc.

What I want to achieve is, when the date in a column on the invoicing sheet matches the corresponding date on the balance sheet, a particular cell on the balance sheet is populated by the payment amount on the invoicing sheet. Bear in mind that the invoice sheet doesn't have a rolling date column - just the date that I manually input, so the cells won't be in a constant place.

Cheers


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:44 pm
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VLOOKUP should do it for you (set last argument to FALSE though)


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:46 pm
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will there be many invoices with the same date trying to fit into one date on the balance sheet?

If so you'll need to use the sumif formula. Otherwise the VLOOKUP formula will be fine.


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:49 pm
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Cheers Stoner

Read my first sentence 🙁


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:50 pm
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tommy - occassionally, yes


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:51 pm
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if there are multiple entries then use SUMIF

the help files in excel are handy for learning how to use the formula correctly.


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 1:54 pm
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Really is worth taking the time to learn Vlookup

It (& Pivot Chart) really makes spreadsheets "come alive"

[b]Sort[/b] & [b]Concatenate[/b] also dead useful

IMHO


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 2:16 pm
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You can use Excel for some pretty far-out things...

http://mashable.com/2014/08/19/microsoft-excel-cool-projects/


 
Posted : 18/09/2015 2:43 pm

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