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Maintaining Formulas When Sorting a Sheet
Hi,
Is there a way to sort a sheet where the formulas do not change. I have a few formulas at the top of a sheet and whenever someone sorts through the sheet, my formulas change based on where it was moved to.
My formula is a COUNTIFS and I want it to count what I am asking regardless of where in the sheet the row where the formula is jumps to. Is this possible? I have a lot of people that look at the sheet and like to filter, only it mixes the formula.
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Hi,
The best way to make sure that when others sort the structure of your sheet stays the same is to create a report, and get your colleagues to sort the report instead.
Details on reporting is available in the help center: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/522214-creating-reports
If a report doesn't work for you, you might consider adding absolute references to your formulas. For more info, see: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2476171-create-and-edit-formulas-in-smartsheet#reference
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Absolute referencing works when moving the formula, but not when rows are sorted. Surely there must be a way to get a countif formula to remain static as conditional formatting works?
