Question

I am working IN excel and am looking for an equation/formula to put inside one of the cells.

I have a column and there are 10 rows in that column. Periodically it will be updated and a user may add to that cell. So my range is A1:A10.

What I am trying to do is get the cell that has a value in it for that range..

For example the column looks like this:

Author1
Author2
Author3
Author4
Author5
Author6
(blank cell)
(blank cell)
(blank cell)
(blank cell)

I want to get the last value in that range, so the value in the new cell would be Author6. How can I do this?

EDIT

I came up with this but excel throws an error stating:

The specified formula cannot be entered because it uses more levels of nesting than are allowed in the current file format.

I came up with this formula and it seems to be working fine if I get rid of some of the values being checked..

=IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A10)),A10,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A9)),A9,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A8)),A8,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A7)),A7,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A6)),A6,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A5)),A5,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A4)),A4,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A3)),A3,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A2)),A2,IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A1)),A1,C3))))))

Does anyone know how I can improve this formula/make it shorter?

Answer 1

This is probably the simplest formula:

=INDEX($A$1:$A$10, COUNTA($A$1:$A$10), 1)