Hi, I have 50 customers on drop down and months on another drop down. I need a cell to be populated with unique invoice number for a certain customer for a certain month. I have tried the formula:
=IF(AND(A1="Cust A";A2="January";"CustA001")).
I have to do this for all 50 customers for january only. Is there a way I can use arrays maybe?
Please help.
Last edited by Mcambi; 02-19-2018 at 10:18 AM.
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TMS,
I need to select customer name and month from drop down at B3 and B4 respectively and B5 will be populated with correct invoice number.
I have only done for customer 1 for January and February only.
I need to do it for 50 customers for different months. Is there a better way?
I think months might be better as a number but
=B2&TEXT(MONTH(DATEVALUE("1-"&B3& "99")),"000")
or to lose the space
=SUBSTITUTE(B2," ","")&TEXT(MONTH(DATEVALUE("1-"&B3& "99")),"000")
I wasn't quick enough following up .... davsth beat me to the answer.
For what it's worth, I also went withFormula:
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The year can be anything you like, from 1900 on. In fact, you can just put 0, thus:Formula:Please Login or Register to view this content.
You're just trying to built something that the DATEVALUE function will interpret as a date so that you can then use MONTH to extract the month and thus convert it to a number. You then use the TEXT function to format the month number as 3 digits. That said, it seems a little pointless having three digits if the Invoice number is based on the month.
davsth & TMS
You guys are amazing! Worked like a charm.
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