Last non-empty cell in a column

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Does anyone know the formula to find the value of the last non-empty cell in a column  in Microsoft Excel

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If you are not afraid to use arrays  then the following is a very simple formula to solve the problem    SUM IF A A lt     1 0    You must press CTRL   SHIFT   ENTER because this is an array formula

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This works in Excel 2003   amp  later with minor edit  see below   Press Ctrl Shift Enter  not just Enter  to enter this as an array formula    IF ISBLANK A65536  INDEX A1 A65535 MAX  A1 A65535 lt  gt      ROW A1 A65535     A65536    Be aware that Excel 2003 is unable to apply an array formula to an entire column  Doing so yields  NUM   unpredictable results may occur   EDIT  Conflicting information from Microsoft  The same may or may not be true about Excel 2007  problem may have been fixed in 2010     That s why I apply the array formula to range A1 A65535 and give special treatment to the last cell  which is A65536 in Excel 2003  Can t just say A A or even A1 A65536 as the latter automatically reverts to A A   If you re absolutely sure A65536 is blank  then you can skip the IF part    INDEX A1 A65535 MAX  A1 A65535 lt  gt      ROW A1 A65535       Note that if you re using Excel 2007 or 2010  the last row number is 1048576 not 65536  so adjust the above as appropriate    If there are no blank cells in the middle of your data  then I would just use the simpler formula   INDEX A A COUNTA A A

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For version tracking  adding the letter v to the beginning of the number   I found this one to work well in Xcelsius  SAP Dashboards     v  amp MAX A2 A500

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Using following simple formula is much faster   LOOKUP 2 1  A A lt  gt     A A    For Excel 2003    LOOKUP 2 1  A1 A65535 lt  gt     A1 A65535    It gives you following advantages    it s not array formula it s not volatile formula   Explanation     A A lt  gt     returns array  TRUE TRUE    FALSE      1  A A lt  gt     modifies this array to  1 1     DIV 0        Since LOOKUP expects sorted array in ascending order  and taking into account that if the LOOKUP function can not find an exact match  it chooses the largest value in the lookup range  in our case  1 1     DIV 0       that is less than or equal to the value  in our case 2   formula finds last 1 in array and returns corresponding value from result range  third parameter - A A      Also little note - above formula doesn t take into account cells with errors  you can see it only if last non empty cell has error   If you want to take them into account  use    LOOKUP 2 1  NOT ISBLANK A A    A A    image below shows the difference

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Okay  so I had the same issue as the asker  and tried both top answers  But only getting formula errors  Turned out that I needed to exchange the     to     for the formulas to work  I am using XL 2007   Example    LOOKUP 2 1  A A lt  gt     A A    or   INDEX A A MAX  A A lt  gt      ROW A A

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An alternative solution without array formulas  possibly more robust than that of a previous answer with a  hint to a  solution without array formulas  is   INDEX A A INDEX MAX   A  A lt  gt      ROW A A    0     See this answer as an example  Kudos to Brad and barry houdini  who helped solving this question   Possible reasons for preferring a non-array formula are given in    An official Microsoft page  look for  Disadvantages of using array formulas     Array formulas can seem magical  but they also have some disadvantages    You may occasionally forget to press CTRL SHIFT ENTER  Remember to press this key combination whenever you enter or edit an array formula  Other users may not understand your formulas  Array formulas are relatively undocumented  so if other people need to modify your workbooks  you should either avoid array formulas or make sure those users understand how to change them  Depending on the processing speed and memory of your computer  large array formulas can slow down calculations   Array Formula Heresy

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for textual data     EQUIV    A1 A10 -1    for numerical data     EQUIV 0 A1 A10 -1    This give you the relative index of the last non empty cell in the range selected  here A1 A10    If you want to get the value  access it via INDIRECT after building -textually- the absolute cell reference  eg     INDIRECT  A   amp   nb line where your data start   EQUIV      - 1

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Place this code in a VBA module  Save  Under functions  User defined look for This function   Function LastNonBlankCell Range As Excel Range  As Variant     Application Volatile     LastNonBlankCell   Range End xlDown  Value End Function

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I think the response from W5ALIVE is closest to what I use to find the last row of data in a column   Assuming I am looking for the last row with data in Column A  though  I would use the following for the more generic lookup    MAX IFERROR MATCH     A A -1  0  IFERROR MATCH 9 99999999999999E 307 A A 1  0     The first MATCH will find the last text cell and the second MATCH finds the last numeric cell   The IFERROR function returns zero if the first MATCH finds all numeric cells or if the second match finds all text cells   Basically this is a slight variation of W5ALIVE s mixed text and number solution    In testing the timing  this was significantly quicker than the equivalent LOOKUP variations   To return the actual value of that last cell  I prefer to use indirect cell referencing like this    INDIRECT  A  amp MAX IFERROR MATCH     A A -1  0  IFERROR MATCH 9 99999999999999E 307 A A 1  0      The method offered by sancho s is perhaps a cleaner option  but I would modify the portion that finds the row number to this    INDEX MAX  A A lt  gt      ROW A A    1    the only difference being that the   1  returns the first value while the   0  returns the entire array of values  all but one of which are not needed    I still tend to prefer addressing the cell to the index function there  in other words  returning the cell value with    INDIRECT  A  amp INDEX MAX  A A lt  gt      ROW A A    1     Great thread

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For Microsoft office 2013   Last but one  of a non empty row    OFFSET Sheet5  C 1 COUNTA Sheet5  C  C -2 0     Last  non empty row    OFFSET Sheet5  C 1 COUNTA Sheet5  C  C -1 0

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Here is another option    OFFSET  A 1 COUNTA A A -1 0

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Ive tried all the non-volatile versions but Not one version given above has worked   excel 2003 2007update  Surely this can be done in excel 2003  Not as an array nor standard formula  I either get just a blank  0 or  value error   So I resort to the volatile methods    This worked         LOOKUP 2 1  T4 T369 lt      T4 T369     Julian Kron      Using     instead of     does NOT work  I think you are using Libre Office not MS excel  LOOKUP is so annoyingly volitile I use it as a last resort only

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I used HLOOKUP  A1 has a date  A2 A8 has forecasts captured at different times  I want the latest   Hlookup a1 a1 a8 count a2 a8  1    This uses a standard hlookup formula with the lookup array defined by the number of entries

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INDEX A A  COUNTA A A   1  taken from here

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This works with both text and numbers and doesn t care if there are blank cells  i e   it will return the last non-blank cell   It needs to be array-entered  meaning that you press Ctrl-Shift-Enter after you type or paste it in   The below is for column A    INDEX A A MAX  A A lt  gt      ROW A A

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MATCH     A1 A10 -1  for textual data   MATCH 0 A1 A10 -1  for numerical data

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This formula worked with me for office 2010    LOOKUP 2 1  A1 A100 lt      A1 A100   A1  the first cell A100  refer to the last cell in comparing

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A simple one which works for me    F7-INDEX A A COUNT A A

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Inspired by the great lead given by Doug Glancy s answer  I came up with a way to do the same thing without the need of an array-formula  Do not ask me why  but I am keen to avoid the use of array formulae if at all possible  not for any particular reason  it s just my style     Here it is     SUMPRODUCT MAX   A  A lt  gt      ROW A A       For finding the last non-empty row using Column A as the reference column   SUMPRODUCT MAX   1  1 lt  gt      COLUMN 1 1       For finding the last non-empty column using row 1 as the reference row  This can be further utilized in conjunction with the index function to efficiently define dynamic named ranges  but this is something for another post as this is not related to the immediate question addressed herein    I ve tested the above methods with Excel 2010  both  natively  and in  Compatibility Mode   for older versions of Excel  and they work  Again  with these you do not need to do any of the Ctrl Shift Enter  By leveraging the way sumproduct works in Excel we can get our arms around the need to carry array-operations but we do it without an array-formula  I hope someone out there may appreciate the beauty  simplicity and elegance of these proposed sumproduct solutions as much as I do  I do not attest to the memory-efficiency of the above solutions though  Just that they are simple  look beautiful  help the intended purpose and are flexible enough to extend their use to other purposes     Hope this helps   All the best

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If you know that there are not going to be empty cells in between  the fastest way is this     INDIRECT  O  amp  COUNT O O   lt  gt          It just counts the non-empty cells and refers to the appropriate cell   It can be used for a specific range as well    INDIRECT  O  amp  COUNT O4 O34   lt  gt      3     This returns the last non empty cell in the range O4 O34

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if you search in Column  A  use     INDIRECT  A   amp  SUMPRODUCT MAX  A A lt  gt      ROW A A        if your range is A1 A10 you can use    INDIRECT  A   amp  SUMPRODUCT MAX   A 1  A10 lt  gt      ROW  A 1  A10        in this formula    SUMPRODUCT MAX   A 1  A10 lt  gt      ROW  A 1  A10       returns last non blank row number  and indirect   returns cell value

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I know this question is old  but I m not satisfied with the answers provided    LOOKUP  VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP has performance issues and should really never be used   Array functions has a lot of overhead and can also have performance issues  so it should only be used as a last resort   COUNT and COUNTA run into problems if the data is not contiguously non-blank  i e  you have blank spaces and then data again in the range in question INDIRECT is volatile so it should only be used as a last resort OFFSET is volatile so it should only be used as a last resort any references to the last row or column possible  the 65536th row in Excel 2003  for instance  is not robust and results in extra overhead   This is what I use   when the data type is mixed   max MATCH 1E 306  RANGE  1  MATCH      RANGE  -1   when it s known that the data contains only numbers   MATCH 1E 306  RANGE  1  when it s known that the data contains only text   MATCH      RANGE  -1    MATCH has the lowest overhead and is non-volatile  so if you re working with lots of data this is the best to use

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I had the same problem too   This formula also works equally well -   INDIRECT CONCATENATE   G    14  COUNTA  G 14  G 65535 -1       14 being the row number of the first row in the rows you want to count   Chronic Clawtooth

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