vlookup help

[Guest]

when there is different values B1 appearing in different cells in same column
for which we are using lookup function A1 then it picks only the first value
from the reference sheet, is there a way to have vlookup pick the next cell
value in column B1? =Vlookup(A1,B1,2,FALSE)
A1 B1
AF0040 3125 3125
AF0040 3225 3125
B0045 3001 3001
B0045 3002 3001
C0074 3702 3702
C0074 3722 3702

 

[Bryan Hessey]

The only way I can see that you could do this is to set an additional
column (or columns) in your table, whereby column C of your table held
the data from B (the next row) if the A cells were equal,
ie - (assuming that your table has columns A and B as shown, use column
C for duplicates, (and D, E, & F etc for third, fourth and fifth
occurances if required) with the formula

for duplicates:
in cell C1 put
=if($A1=$A2,B2,"")

then, if required for triplicates, in cell D
=if($A1=$A3,B3,"")

(formula-copy these to the end of your table-data)

and then use the vlookup on 3, 4, 5 and 6 etc.
=Vlookup(A1,tablename,3,FALSE)
or as
=Vlookup(A1,A1:C999,3,FALSE)

Hope this helps