Automate spreadsheet cleanup and analysis without losing auditability

“Excel document I have the following XLSX-formatted spreadsheet in Google Sheets I'm trying to set a formula on cell R5 (colored in red) so that it adds up all the times in the range L4:N42 but whatever I try it I either get 00:00:00 or all kinds of errors, not even chatGPT can help. Current Formula =ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(L4:N42);L4:N42;0)));1;1)”

“<h2>Scenario:</h2> <p>I have a master Google Sheets spreadsheet with dozens of pages linking to Data Studio.</p> <p>Each page has an IMPORTRANGE formula linking to other Google Sheets spreadsheets.</p> <p>These other spreadsheets have multiple pages and are created monthly, meaning a new URL for each spreadsheet.</p> <h2>I want to:</h2> <p>Have one master spreadsheet to avoid re-linking to Data Studio for each…”

“UPDATE Now it only need to scan the whole row instead of only the cell next to it. I am quite new to google sheets and I want to achieve the following: Lets say we have list 1: Red apple yellow banana orange orange juicy melon We also have list 2 that looks as follows: giant red apple yellow banana orange orange purple water melon Now I want to write a function where I loop through each item in List 2 where I…”

“I'm wondering if someone can help me. I have a Google sheets workbook with more than 50 individual sheets. This workbook has a primary 'index' page that collates set data fields from each sheet. I'm currently expanding this but the formula I am using requires me to change the referencing sheet per row so the data is pulled for the correct sheet. My questions is, is there a way to automate this process as it is…”

“I am trying to query the highest and lowest scoring colour within a group. Then to query what the benchmark score is for those colours in all groups. I'm totally stuck on an approach. I have marked in red in the 2nd tab the expected values: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H7Ighd3fHUc3fJgAXWiqx_Ptl51OvZwXMMToczYnx8A/edit?usp=sharing”

“How can Google Sheets take a range of multiple columns and rows and stack or consolidate all the non-empty cells into one column? For this case, I want non-unique cells. Also, each cell in the range is a string that has commas and spaces so if needed, a special char will need to be as a delimiter. There are several questions already that are about concatenating columns, but they are all concatenating the values…”