Comments on: Multi Column Match

By: Brucew

Brucew — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:40:00 +0000

@Matt

I think sumproduct is a better option in that case

sumproduct((a1:a1000=activity) * (b1:b1000=country) *c1:c1000)

By: matt

matt — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:13:00 +0000

I used the index match combination provided by Daniel above. Need help expanding on that to include a function that will sum all entries from same origin in a third column. To demonstrate:

Column A) forecast/actual...B) company name... C) week x amount

Forecast Company A 10
Delivery Company B 10
Forecast Company A 5

In short, the overall function will need to first identify whether it is a forecast/delivery/promotional activity, then identify company name, then add all figures for that week after narrowing selection from columns A & B. There are approximately 400 companies in my sheet and at least 3-4 entries for each company, which I will be filling for all 52 weeks. Thoughts?? Thanks.

By: BruceW

BruceW — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:40:00 +0000

Correction to above

=index(a6:g60000,match(a5&b5&c5,index(a6:a60000&b6:b60000&c6:c60000,),0),4)

By: BruceW

BruceW — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:35:00 +0000

Recently saw this solution

=index(a6:g60000,match(a5&b5&c5,index(a6:a60000&b6:b60000&c6:c60000,),0,4)

It is a three criteria lookup and works extremely well. The beauty of this is that it is not CSE but a straight formula. Not sure of the overhead on the spreadsheet. I think the char(1) addition mentioned above would enhance it if the data was of such a nature
Cheers

By: Tushar

Tushar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:29:00 +0000

Thanks! Had been struggling to do this whole day at work without success…now finally…:)

By: Viv

Viv — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:49:00 +0000

You are the Champ!! Well done.. thanks for the solutions

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:06:00 +0000

Alex: I think you might be looking for this

http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/05/11/conditional-data-validation/
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:27:00 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to do this inside Data Validation? Let's say I have a list of sport products. In my first column I have Brand (Nike, Adidas...) on the second one Product Line (Shoes, Shirts, Jackets...) and on the third column I've got the model name. I will have several models inside the same brand and product line. The idea is to select from a list the resulting values.

Thanks!!

By: MaN

MaN — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:03:00 +0000

hi Rob…it is possible to do this in java programming? how do is use this in java? can you help me?

By: Jason B

Jason B — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:54:00 +0000

I used this again today and the recalculation is a bit slow, but the result is great as always…