Comments on: Matchmaker http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/04/12/matchmaker/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dick http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/04/12/matchmaker/#comment-1321 Dick Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:55:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=458#comment-1321 <p>John - MATCH is the better choice. I'm a VLOOKUP junkie, which is a failing of mine. Let's see, we're trying to match two columns and there's a function named MATCH. Darn, that's intuitive. Thanks for the comment.</p> John – MATCH is the better choice. I’m a VLOOKUP junkie, which is a failing of mine. Let’s see, we’re trying to match two columns and there’s a function named MATCH. Darn, that’s intuitive. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Juan Pablo http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/04/12/matchmaker/#comment-1320 Juan Pablo Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:13:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=458#comment-1320 <p>J.E., the COUNTIF() version is slower than the MATCH() version, at least that's what FastExcel says ! </p> <p><a href="http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=40233" rel="nofollow">http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=40233</a></p> <p>As noted there, it's best to use ISNUMBER(MATCH()) or ISNA(MATCH())</p> J.E., the COUNTIF() version is slower than the MATCH() version, at least that’s what FastExcel says !

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=40233

As noted there, it’s best to use ISNUMBER(MATCH()) or ISNA(MATCH())

]]> By: J.E. McGimpsey http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/04/12/matchmaker/#comment-1319 J.E. McGimpsey Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=458#comment-1319 <p>Hi Dick!</p> <p>Understand you're demo-ing VLOOKUP, but instead of</p> <p> =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet2!$A$1:$A$8,1,FALSE)),"No match","")</p> <p>I'd recommend using</p> <p> =IF(ISNA(MATCH(A1,Sheet2!A:A,FALSE)),"No match","")</p> <p>Or the shorter (and perhaps more efficient since it has fewer function calls, though I've never benchmarked it):</p> <p> =IF(COUNTIF(A1,Sheet2!A:A),"","No match")</p> Hi Dick!

Understand you’re demo-ing VLOOKUP, but instead of

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet2!$A$1:$A$8,1,FALSE)),”No match”,”")

I’d recommend using

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(A1,Sheet2!A:A,FALSE)),”No match”,”")

Or the shorter (and perhaps more efficient since it has fewer function calls, though I’ve never benchmarked it):

=IF(COUNTIF(A1,Sheet2!A:A),”",”No match”)

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