Vlookup formula

[johncassell]

Hi,

Hope someone can help with this..

If range A:A contained First Names and range B:B contained Surnames and
I wanted to find the surname of the person in column A I would use..

=VLOOKUP("John",A:B,2,false) Which would return Smith

is there a way to search for Smith and find the result John?

Thanks

John

 

[Dave Peterson]

=index(a:a,match("smith",b:b,0))

You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html (for =vlookup())
and
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html (for =index(match()))

 

[johncassell]

Excellent, thanks a lot for that Dave. Much appreciated.

Thanks again

John