where sales is the named range C5:C16. The result is $5950, the sum of the values in the range C13:C16, which are created with a formula.
Forecasted values
The forecasted values in the range C13:C16 are created with a formula based on the MROUND function. The formula in C13, copied down, is: This formula is used to generate values that are 5% higher than the previous month, rounded to the nearest multiple of 25.
Sum formulas
To sum values in the range C5:C16 that are created with formulas, the formula in F6 is: This formula uses boolean logic to “filter” the numbers in sales (C5:C16) based on whether the values come from a formula or not. The ISFORMULA function created the filter like this: ISFORMULA returns TRUE when cell contains a formula, and FALSE if not. In this case, there are 12 values in the range C5:C16, so ISFORMULA returns 12 results in an array like this: Each TRUE value in this array represents a cell that contains a formula. Notice the last 4 values are TRUE. When this array is multiplied by the named range sales (C5:C16), the math operation coerces the TRUE and FALSE values to 1s and 0s. We can visualize the formula at this point like this: After the multiplication takes place, we have a single array like this: Now you can see how the filter works. The values not created by formulas are “zeroed out”. With just one array to process, SUMPRODUCT sums the array and returns a final result of 5950.
Not formulas
To sum values not generated by a formula, you can add the NOT function like this: This is the formula in cell F7. Here, the NOT function reverses the TRUE FALSE results returned by ISFORMULA function: This causes the formula-created values to be zeroed out: The final result from this formula is 9243.
Dave Bruns
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