Comments on: VLOOKUP with a Variable Column

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:19:00 +0000

http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/09/22/case-sensitive-lookup/

By: Griff

Griff — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Hello,

I have a problem using VLOOKUP that I hope someone here can help with. I'm doing a VLOOKUP to a source range that has alphanumeric values which are sometime differentiated only by by upper/lower case which VLOOKUP cannot handle.

Example: 0014000000RZBAx and 0014000000RZBAX. VLOOKUP sees these as exact matches even thought the last value is different 'z' versus 'Z'.

Any suggestions? Would I be better off using a different function?

Thanks very much.

Griff Jacobsen

By: John Franco

John Franco — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:21:00 +0000

Hi Dilip,

Here's a solution...

Assuming the dates 8/1, 8/2, etc. are corresponding in "monthly" and "weekly" sheets.

You can write this formula at the "weekly" sheet: =INDEX(monthly!$A$2:$E$5,MATCH($A3,monthly!B$2:B$5,0),1)

The above formula would retrieve "John" from "monthly" sheet

Pay special attention to the semi-absolute references: $A3 and B$2:B$5 in the formula. This allows you to copy the formula in the "weekly" sheet.

"Weekly" sheet looks like this:

A,B,C,D,E
1) Shift Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
2) 8/1 8/2 8/3 8/4
3) A John Smith Bob Sam
4) B Smith John Sam Bob

By: Dilip

Dilip — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:18:00 +0000

Can someone help me solve this problem? I have show sheets. Monthly sheet looks like this:

Name 8/1 8/2 8/3 8/4 8/5 ...
John A B D C
Smith B A C D
Bob D C A B
Sam C D B A

Weekly sheet looks like this:

Shift Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
8/1 8/2 8/3 8/4
A John Smith Bob Sam
B Smith John Sam Bob

What I want to do is populate names of Weekly sheet when I update monthly sheet. So date in weekly should match with date of monthly sheet and name from monthly sheet should be populated based on shift (e.g. A shift on 8/2 should result in Smith)

Appreciate your help.

By: HoKe

HoKe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:21:00 +0000

Hi ATIF
i have a solution
=vlookup($A$2;sheet1!$A:$T;column(C3);false)

By: Sievert,L.

Sievert,L. — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:11:00 +0000

Alison – Since you only have two variables (type and volume) have you tried using an INDEX(MATCH,MATCH)?
The Lookup Wizard under Tools works great if you are unfamiliar – you just have to alter the formula once it is created for your needs.

By: Alison S

Alison S — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Hi,

I have a table with costs in by stationary type and volume, so there two variables to look up to bring back a value. I want a cost to be returned from the table once someone enters the volume and the stationary type. I was trying a combination of VLOOKUP and IF formula, but I can't get it too work, maybe I am doing the wrong thing or have too many/not enough brackets?

Can anyone help?

=IF(C32=C9,VLOOKUP(C31,A10:G15,2)),E25(C32=D9,VLOOKUP(C31,A10:G15,3)),IF(C32=E9,VLOOKUP(C31,A10:G15,4)),IF(C32=F9,VLOOKUP(C31,A10:G15,4)),IF(C32=G9,VLOOKUP(C31,A10:G15,5))

By: Sievert,L.

Sievert,L. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Perfect – Thank you! Just one more if you wouldn’t mind…
How would I modify this if I wanted to use this on something similar but horizontal (using the data from before for ease..)
now the dates in ascending order are in column A, a data lable in column B, and times of day are now across the top in row 1.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:30:00 +0000

Make the 'reference' argument of the INDEX function an OFFSET function which excludes the columns you don't want. Put in cell:

B18: 1/19/2009
B19: Cosmetics
B20: 1:30

and this formula will return the correct value as long as your dates ascend from left to right.

=INDEX(OFFSET(A1,2,MATCH(B18,$B$2:$G$2,FALSE),11,7),MATCH(B20,A3:A13,FALSE),MATCH(B19,B1:G1,FALSE))

By: Sievert,L.

Sievert,L. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:57:00 +0000

Looking for help with formula for 3 variables. I've used Index(match, match) to pull from a table with 2 variables but having no luck with 3. The columns have two lables, a name (apparel, cosmetics, jewelry) and date (1/1/09, 1/2/09, ect... (trying to paste in an example without it getting messed up

So what can I used to find cosmetics, 1/18/09 12:00 am?

ApparelCosmeticsJewelryApparelCosmeticsJewerly
1/18/20091/18/20091/18/20091/19/20091/19/20091/19/2009
12:00 AM123456
12:30 AM123456
1:00 AM123456
1:30 AM123456
2:00 AM123456
2:30 AM123456
3:00 AM123456
3:30 AM123456
4:00 AM123456
4:30 AM123456
5:00 AM123456