In an Excel spreadsheet, I take a weekly inventory of items and subtract it from a needs list to create orders for the week.
I want:
If difference between G-F is positive, spread the number needed into the four columns.
If G-F is negative then 0.
I can move columns around if needed.
I tried a few SpreadEven VBA codes I found online. I was unable to make the needed adjustments to make it work.
This workaround has to variation uses only excel formulas. In A version a separator column is needed between the input columns and the result columns.
In B version there are two formulas one for the first value, and a second for the other three.
Version A
A separator column is in column H.
Formula in I4 and this formula is copied in all the other cells.
=IF(($G4-$F4)>0,ROUND(($G4-$F4-SUM($H4:H4))/(COLUMN($F4)+7-COLUMN()),))
Version B
Formula in H13 and copy down
=IF(($G13-$F13)>0,ROUND(($G13-$F13)/4,))
Formula in I13 and copy the whole range (in examp. I13:K18)
=IF(($G13-$F13)>0,ROUND(($G13-$F13-SUM($H13:H13))/(COLUMN($I13)+2-COLUMN(H13)),))
Basically divide the total value to distribute - the already counted values by the remaining number of columns and always round the numbers to an integer value.
In VBA (if that is a requirement) all these formulas can be assigned with the Range.Formula property.