Returning Concatenated cells based on criteria

[Ride The Lightning]

Hi

I have 2 columns of data:

(B) "Book", (blank cell), (blank cell), (blank cell), "Book", (blank cell), "Book"
(C) 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3

I am tring to write a formula to operate in Column A that checks if Column B contains "Book". If it does, I want to concatenate the cell "Book" is in and the adjacent cell in Column C. If it does not contain "Book" (i.e. blank) I want to return the most recent Concatenated cells containing "Book".

So Column (A) should read: Book1, Book1, Book1, Book1, Book2, Book2, Book3.

Would appreciate some help on how to achieve this.

Thanks

RTL

 

[Yahya]

try this
<b>Excel 2007</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">Book1</td><td style=";">Book</td><td style="text-align: right;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">Book1</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">2</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">Book1</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">3</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style=";">Book1</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">4</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style=";">Book2</td><td style=";">Book</td><td style="text-align: right;;">2</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">6</td><td style=";">Book2</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">7</td><td style=";">Book3</td><td style=";">Book</td><td style="text-align: right;;">3</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet2</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A1</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B1="Book",B1&C1</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A2</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B2="Book",B2&C2,A1</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A3</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B3="Book",B3&C3,A2</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A4</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B4="Book",B4&C4,A3</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A5</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B5="Book",B5&C5,A4</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A6</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B6="Book",B6&C6,A5</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">A7</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">B7="Book",B7&C7,A6</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[T. Valko]

Hi

I have 2 columns of data:

(B) "Book", (blank cell), (blank cell), (blank cell), "Book", (blank cell), "Book"
(C) 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3

I am tring to write a formula to operate in Column A that checks if Column B contains "Book". If it does, I want to concatenate the cell "Book" is in and the adjacent cell in Column C. If it does not contain "Book" (i.e. blank) I want to return the most recent Concatenated cells containing "Book".

So Column (A) should read: Book1, Book1, Book1, Book1, Book2, Book2, Book3.

Would appreciate some help on how to achieve this.

Thanks

RTL

What results do you expect if this is your data:

Book1
	B	C
1	_	1
2	_	2
3	_	3
4	_	4
5	Book	2
6	_	1
7	Book	3
Sheet1

 

[Ride The Lightning]

What results do you expect if this is your data:

Book1
*	B	C
1	_	1
2	_	2
3	_	3
4	_	4
5	Book	2
6	_	1
7	Book	3
Sheet1

The data always starts off with "book" in cell B1 though.

 

[T. Valko]

The data always starts off with "book" in cell B1 though.

Try this...

Book1
	A	B	C
1	Book1	Book	1
2	Book1	_	2
3	Book1	_	3
4	Book1	_	4
5	Book2	Book	2
6	Book2	_	1
7	Book3	Book	3
Sheet1

This formula entered in A1 and copied down:

="Book"&LOOKUP(2,1/(B$1:B1="book"),C$1:C1)

 

[Ride The Lightning]

Yahya, thank you, seems to work fine.

 

[Ride The Lightning]

And T.Valko, once again, thank you.

 

[T. Valko]

And T.Valko, once again, thank you.

You're welcome!