Lookup Multiple Criteria return One answer

[Guest]

Here is what I need to happen... Below is my spreadsheet.. i am trying to
keep a report that pulls information from this spreadsheet and updates each
day with that current days numbers... So on a seperate sheet I want it to
list the current days numbers for that cell.. If the date is 01/02/06 then i
want the region 1 total errors for that day.. I was thinking something like
this.
=LOOKUP(Auto!today(),Auto!A:A,Auto!C:C) but that only pulls 1 criteria and
is not working.. i need 2 criteria, date and region. Thanks

A B C
Date Region Total Errors
1/2/2006 Region 1 0
Region 2 683
Region 3 0
Region 4 0
Region 5 376
Region 6 569
Region 8 0
Region 9 145

 

[Guest]

First, I restructure the data table to facilitate lookups, but if that's the
structure you're stuck with then this may work for you:

Assumption: You want to view error information for a single date on a
separate worksheet.

With your example data on Sheet1, beginning in Cell A1

Using Sheet2:
B1: Date
B2: 01/02/2006
C1: Region
D1: Total Errors

A2: =MATCH(B2,Sheet1!A1:A1000,0)

C2: Region 1
C3: Region 2
etc

D2: =VLOOKUP(C2,INDEX(Sheet1!$B$1:$B$1000,Sheet2!$A$2,1):Sheet1!$C$1000,2,0)

Copy that formula down as far as you have regions listed.

Change the date in Cell B2 to another date and the formulas in Col_D will
return the relevent data for that date.

(Adjust range references to suit your situation)

Is that something you can work with?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro

 

[Dave Peterson]

You've got a couple of other threads going elsewhere.

 

[Guest]

no not really my data needs to stay the same.. im putting together a report
and i want it to just show everyday whats happening that day.. so i need my
columns to stay the same.