Situation
VLOOKUP is great for extracting information from a huge data table based on what you are looking for. But what if you need to extract more than one column of information? For eg. Lets say you have salesperson’s name in left most column, and monthly sales figures in next columns, one for each month. Now, you want to find the total sales made by a given sales person. How do you go about it?
Data:
![Data for this Example -Get Multiple Outputs [VLOOKUP Quick Tip]](https://chandoo.org/img/f/vw/vloookup-from-multiple-columns-data.png)
Solution
Simple. You can use an array in the column number field of VLOOKUP. So for eg. =SUM(VLOOKUP(value, list, {2,3,4},false)) will give you sum of values in columns 2,3 and 4. Of course you must press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter after typing the formula. See few more examples:
Examples:
![Data for this Example -Get Multiple Outputs [VLOOKUP Quick Tip]](https://chandoo.org/img/f/vw/vlookup-multi-column-examples.png)
Sample File
Download Example File – Get Multiple Outputs [VLOOKUP Quick Tip]
Special Thanks to
John for the tip. (Click on the name to see tip)
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hi chandoo,
i've tried using power query, however i face a rather weird problem. when i click on 'from web' option, the URL window does not show option for basic and advanced. thus i'm unable to form parameters in URL. how i can resolve this issue?