Comments on: vlookup(), match() and offset() – explained in plain english [spreadcheats]

By: Become an Excel Guru in 31 Days | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Learn Excel Online - Chandoo.org

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:53:26 +0000

[...] Day 10: Introduction to VLOOKUP Formula (and MATCH, OFFSET Formulas) [...]

By: baynoli

baynoli — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:11:32 +0000

Hi I really find your sites very helpful and interesting, i can’t imagine that there many things you can do in excel. but my question is how did you make those comments although its not quite related to excel. Do you use any software for your call-outs in the images. I mean those blue arrows and colorful notes. thanks. i’m glad i found this site.

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By: Singer

Singer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:53:39 +0000

I have used vlookup and hlookup extensively, including many nested uses of them. What I am trying to do is write a vlookup that will reference not only the first column but also the second.

So for example (to keep this simple, but note I am not using dates)
Column one can be month (jan, feb, mar) and column two can be dates (1,2,3) and I need to reference feb 2 (aka column a will say feb and column b will say 2).

With vlookup either of these would be easy, but I need to now reference both at the same time.

Any help would be greatly welcomed.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:51:14 +0000

@Eric 1: You can try using named ranges….

@Eric 2: Thanks for the love. I am very happy you enjoy PHD.

You may want to use data filters for something like this. They are simple and intuitive.

@Jaron… glad to help.

By: Jaron

Jaron — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:22:06 +0000

Chandoo, many thanks for that – i’ve managed to work it out – amazing – saves me such a lot of time!

Many thanks and keep going with the site – its so useful and have only just recently come across it but will be recommending it to my friends!

Take care

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:58:42 +0000

First of all Chandoo, wanted to let you know that I love your site and it has already helped me extensively with everything I am trying to do!!! Thank you!

I have a different question though and not certain if it can be resolved with vlookup’s or if it needs to be a combination of different ones. Any help would be wonderful!

What I would like to do with the information that I have put together on a different workbook is to reference an Agent (column A), and a time range (Date is in colum D) and then copy the row from A to I for each occurance during that range of dates so we can see how many and what errors have occured during any range of dates selected. (I will have different people inputting errors at different times so the dates will not be sorted unless they have to be). I am new at this so I don’t know if this can be done with vlookup’s or if you would need to use another function.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:38:47 +0000

Hello, looking for some introductory assistance here.

Is there any way to do a validation (list) using information from workbook_1 on workbook_2 without having to pull that information onto workbook_2 and hiding the cells to make the list? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Eric

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:11:12 +0000

@Jaron.. I guess your earlier questions were answered by conditional formatting.

You can use CF to define rules based on condition like “NR/TRAIN” etc.

Select all the cells, go to conditional formatting, define a new rule that says

cell contains “NR/” and adjust formatting. Make sure this rule is above the rule that says “NR”. That is all.

You can see some very good examples here: http://chandoo.org/wp/tag/conditional-formatting/

By: Jaron

Jaron — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:10:26 +0000

Chandoo,
I’ve discovered conditional formatting from your site, which I’ve used the formula is equal to NR to get the cells with the same value in the same colour! Excellent!.

A slightly more difficult one though is I want it to highlight in yellow any cell with more than NR i.e. NR/TRAIN, NR/STNDBY etc – will always be NR/ then something – but I’m unsure what formulae to type in? Any ideas/tricks?

THanks in advance! Again!

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:37:10 +0000

[...] INDEX formulas to fetch corresponding weekly values for all years for selected region. Thanks to MATCH, INDEX and HLOOKUP formulas, this is not such a big task either. And if the optional comparison [...]