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Creating a text arrow in Excel that moves down as questions are answered


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As shown in the 'Question' column, there is a -->

I need a formula that I can repeat to all cells in the column that will make a --> appear where the previous question has been answered ('N' cell of previous row is not blank) -

This would be simple enough with something like, for G3:

=IF(N2<>"", "-->", "")

The only catch is, I want only one --> arrow in the column to be visible at one time, so that when G5 is displaying a -->, the --> in G4 disappears - and I've found myself completely stuck.


Solution

  • Use this formula in cell G2 and copy down:

    =IF(AND(COUNTIF(G$1:G1,"-->")=0,N2=""),"-->","")