Show the text in the cell furthest to the right when its the result of a formula

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OK, my last one for today...

I've searched the net for help to this one but I've only found answers that are for the text in the cell furthest to the right of a range of cells rather than form certain cells......

Anyway, in cell E8 I need it to show the value in the furthest to the right of the cells M8, W8, AG8 & AQ8 (all of the ones I've coloured in yellow in the screenshot below) - so in this instance E8 would need to show the value from W8 which in this case is P02.

However, I cant get this to work whatsoever and I think that is because the formulas that I have found are when it needs to look at a range of cells rather that every 10th cell along the row AND because the value in cells M8, W8, AG8 & AQ8 is actually the result of a formula - I've included in row 9 all of the formulas that occur in row 8 just in case that helps with helping me.

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Now ideally (and also greedily), the formula in cell E8 would be smart enough to take advantage of the fact that the cells it needs to look in are regularly spaced out at every 10 columns.

Anyway, as usual all help would be appreciated.
 
again, it didn't return a valid answer/
Which formula?
If you are referring to the second one that I posted, are you sure that you confirmed it with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just Enter if using anything other than Excel 365?


The formulas in some (if not all) of your blank cells appear to be returning single spaces
Hi, I am unable to see that in either the image in post 1 or the XL2BB mini-sheet in post 3. Can you indicate what makes you say that?
 
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I noticed it when I was evaluating a formula to see why it was not working as expected. Tried again on a clean sheet in case it was a copy / paste error but same result.
Note that I used Alt + Click to copy the XL2BB sheet in post 3. You will see below that a number of cells which appear empty have a length of 1 character. Checking any of these in the formula bar shows a single space.

I didn't realise before, but you can also see the difference between the empty cells and those with a space in a desktop browser by using Ctrl + a on the XL2BB mini sheet.

Book1 (version 1).xlsb
DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAABACADAEAFAGAHAIAJAKALAMANAOAPAQARASATAUAV
8RF0100 01-Oct-2015-Oct-20 01-Sep-2002-Sep-20 P0116-Sep-2018-Sep-2002-Oct-2001-Oct-20 P0215-Oct-2015-Oct-20
9615510551355000055135500001011100000101110000
Sheet5
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D9:AV9D9=LEN(D8)
 
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Note that I used Alt + Click to copy the XL2BB sheet in post 3.
Thanks for that. That is interesting. I had done the same =LEN() check and got zero for those same cells but I had used the standard Click rather than Alt+Click to copy the mini-sheet data to my worksheet.
Given that the formula in V8 cannot produce a space character (because the T8 formula cannot) I think we have to assume there is a glitch with XL2BB?
 
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I think you might be correct Peter, to be honest I didn't trace the formulas back (which appears quite obvious given that I asked what was in J7 even though it is in the XL2BB capture provided).

Errors and omissions aside, thinking of simple ways to cure the problem having now looked at the formula chain.
Excel Formula:
=CHOOSE(COUNT(K8,U8,AE8,AO8)+1,"",M8,W8,AG8,AQ8)
 
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I have raised it as an XL2BB issue to be investigated to see if it can be rectified in a future update.
@jasonb75
FYI: In fact, @smozgur has fixed it already, including retrospectively for existing XL2BB mini-sheets. ???
It still looks like a space if you do the Ctrl+A on the forum page, but copying to your worksheet with Alt+Click does not produce a space any more.
 
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