{"id":10677,"date":"2016-10-23T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2016-10-23T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:48:19","slug":"excel-heaven-tutorial-04-extracting-organizing-analyzing-and-presenting-data-indexmatch-formulas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/excel-heaven-tutorial-04-extracting-organizing-analyzing-and-presenting-data-indexmatch-formulas\/","title":{"rendered":"[Excel-Heaven Tutorial 04] Extracting, Organizing, Analyzing and Presenting Data: Index\/Match Formulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>This is an INDEX\/MATCH formula:<\/strong> =INDEX(setingsDBase,MATCH(D9,nfDrinksList,0),2) [See it used in the screenshot below]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>It is a powerful time saving formula constructed using 2 different functions - enabling timely and convenient extraction of data from a database while reducing the chances of user entry errors being made during routine data recording of product sales record<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Index\/Match Formulas are indispensable tools for\u00a0 organizing data as well as creating reports and analyses.\u00a0 I have found them most useful for creating reports from spreadsheet databases in which the data to be handled is already summarized.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I've found them especially useful in\u00a0 handling data summaries generated using SUMPRODUCT formulas . All my applications make generous use of these functions and most times they meet 80% of my needs. STUDY the formula using the notes provided on this page.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Next week\u00a0 I will create and send you a step-by-step video demonstration\/explanation of how this Index\/Match Formula was built<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Below: Screenshot of MS Excel worksheet with explanatory notes on how the Index\/Match formula I created was used to generate the report shown.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/xlvb-tutorial04.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10678\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10678\" src=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/xlvb-tutorial04.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of MS Excel worksheet with explanatory notes on how the Index\/Match formula I created was used to generate the report shown.\" width=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, the workbook - with unprotected worksheets and VBA code modules was emailed to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club. <a href=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/contact.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to request a copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an INDEX\/MATCH formula: =INDEX(setingsDBase,MATCH(D9,nfDrinksList,0),2) [See it used in the screenshot below] It is a powerful time saving formula constructed using 2 different functions - enabling timely and convenient extraction of data from a database while reducing the chances of user entry errors being made during routine data recording of product sales record Index\/Match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1375,266,10],"tags":[2536,2533,2534,2535],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employeescareer-persons","category-excel-vb-solutions","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-self-development","tag-analyzing-and-presenting-data-indexmatch-formulas","tag-excel-heaven-tutorial-04","tag-extracting","tag-organizing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1102,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10680,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}