VLOOKUP

[ferosha42]

I need help with the following:

On Sheet 1, I have a list of about 100 employees: A= Last Name, B=First
name, C= (blank).

On sheet 2, I have a list of all employees (40,000+) broken up in 3 columns:
A=employee ID, B= Last Name, C= First Name

I want to make a function in cell C4 of sheet 1 that would pull the employee
ID from sheet 2. I am trying to avoid searching one by one.

Can anyone help???

 

[Dave Peterson]

The firstname/lastname combination will be unique on sheet2?

=index(sheet2!$a$1:$a$100,
match(1,(a2=sheet2!$b$1:$b$100)
*(b2=sheet2!$c$1:$c$100),0))

But read these instructions...

Saved from a previous post:

If you want exact matches for just two columns (and return a value from a
third), you could use:

=index(othersheet!$c$1:$c$100,
match(1,(a2=othersheet!$a$1:$a$100)
*(b2=othersheet!$b$1:$b$100),0))

(all in one cell)

This is an array formula. Hit ctrl-shift-enter instead of enter. If you do it
correctly, excel will wrap curly brackets {} around your formula. (don't type
them yourself.)

Adjust the range to match--but you can only use the whole column in xl2007.

This returns the value in othersheet column C when column A and B (of
othersheet) match A2 and B2 of the sheet with the formula.

And you can add more conditions by just adding more stuff to that product
portion of the formula:

=index(othersheet!$d$1:$d$100,
match(1,(a2=othersheet!$a$1:$a$100)
*(b2=othersheet!$b$1:$b$100)
*(c2=othersheet!$c$1:$c$100),0))

 

[ShaneDevenshire]

Hi,

First, the same comment you saw at the beginning of the other post - with
40000 names I doubt that a first name last name combination will be unique!!

The following non-array solution will work:

=LOOKUP(A2&B2,B1:B40&C1:C40,A1:A40)

With this approach the 40000 records should be sorted on the last name field.