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A study by accountants Coopers and Lybrand has shown that 90% of spreadsheets with more than 150 rows contain errors. Check out my information on creating. The SearchItem represents the item being sought and can either be an absolute value (eg 234 or 'Fish') or a cell reference. The TableRange represents the range of the whole table (excluding headings) where the left most column contains the values being searched. The ColumnNo specifies which adjacent column contains the value to be returned if the search is successful (where the left most column is 1).
When you use a VLOOKUP formula you want an answer to something. What you want to return is what Excel calls the col_index_num (Column Index Number). In short: Which column in the data you want to return data from. Sep 26, 2014 - Excel has a function IFNA() for exactly this purpose.
The Exact argument is important. If ignored or set to 1, the function will assume that the data is sorted in ascending order and the next value will be returned if the SearchItem can not be found. In the example below a search for XN44 would fail but will return a value adjacent to the next highest item i.e. If set to zero an exact match must be achieved or else an error (#N/A) will result. A value of zero therefore means that the data does not need to be sorted in ascending order. In some situations the match must be exact and an error will spoil the functioning of the worksheet.
Avoiding this problem requires a combination of different functions in a complex formula. It is possible to test whether an exact match can be found using the MATCH function. =MATCH( SearchItem, ColumnRange, Exact) If no match is found, an error will again appear but this can be tested for using the ISNA function. ISNA will return a True value if the formula it is looking at results in an #N/A error.
These functions could be combined with IF to return either an exact match or zero. B C D 2 Nursing Staff www.MeadInKent.co.uk 3 4 Grade Salary Staff 5 XN41 10000 3.0 6 XN46 15000 5.0 7 XN51 20000 2.0 8 Employers on Costs (approx) 12% 9 10 Select grade XN46 11 Check selection XN46 Found 12 Total salary cost 84000.00 For a detailed site index In the example a user can enter a Grade Code in cell D10. In cell D11 the value is checked to see whether an exact match is found and an appropriate message returned. In cell D12 the salary for the selected grade is multiplied by the number of staff and the employers 'on costs'. In this case it is essential to know that the calculation is not based on an approximate match with another grade. D11 =IF(ISNA(MATCH(D10, B5:B7, 0)), D10 & ' is NOT on the Table', D10 & ' Found') D12 =VLOOKUP(D10, B5:D7, 2, 0). VLOOKUP(D10, B5:D7, 3, 0).
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I recently discovered the value of vlookup in excel. And I keeping finding more and more ways and reasons to use it. Last week a co-worker needed to compare values on a report from two different dates. We were chatting about it and I realized the vlookup would solve her problem. In this example, I have sales reports from 3 separate days. I want a quick look at how much revenue I made, by product, over all 3 days.
Step 1: I want a consolidated list of products.