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Vlookup found what it was looking for, but what cell was in in?

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Ron Luzius - 29 Sep 2007 20:52 GMT
I need to do an OFFSET(???, 3,2)

The ??? would be the cell that a VLOOKUP found the Lookup_Value in the
Table_Array.

or

The Vlookup found what it was looking for, but what cell was in in?

Any ideas how I can do this?

I was told to..

How do I get the result from a VLOOKUP into the function?

You could use application.match()

Dim res as variant 'could be an error
dim somevalue as string 'or what???
dim somerange as range

set somerange = worksheets("somesheet").range("a:a")

res = application.match(somevalue, somerange,0)
if iserror(res) then
 msgbox "no match"
else
 msgbox somerange(res).offset(0,1).value
end if

Ron Luzius wrote:

> I need to do an OFFSET(???, 3,2)
>
> The ??? would be the cell that a VLOOKUP found the Lookup_Value in the
> Table_Array.
>
> or
>
> The Vlookup found what it was looking for, but what cell was in in?
>
> Any ideas how I can do this?

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Dave Peterson

Wondering - 29 Sep 2007 21:33 GMT
Try this:

=OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(Table_array)+MATCH(Lookup_value,Table_array,0)-1,COLUMN(Table_array))),3,2)

Dave

>I need to do an OFFSET(???, 3,2)
>
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>>
>> Any ideas how I can do this?
Wondering - 29 Sep 2007 21:44 GMT
You may have to change the MATCH function match_type (third argument) which
is 0 (exact match) in the example. See help.

> Try this:
>
> =OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(Table_array)+MATCH(Lookup_value,Table_array,0)-1,COLUMN(Table_array))),3,2)
>
> Dave
T. Valko - 29 Sep 2007 22:40 GMT
Try something like this:

=INDEX(B2:D10,MATCH(lookup_value,A2:A10,0)+3,2)

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

>I need to do an OFFSET(???, 3,2)
>
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>>
>> Any ideas how I can do this?
daddylonglegs - 30 Sep 2007 01:09 GMT
Hello Biff,

If 1st occurence of lookup_value is in A8 for example you'd get a #REF!
error. Perhaps

=INDEX(OFFSET(A2:A10,3,2),MATCH(lookup_value,A2:A10,0))

> Try something like this:
>
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> >>
> >> Any ideas how I can do this?
T. Valko - 30 Sep 2007 02:57 GMT
>If 1st occurence of lookup_value is in A8 for
>example you'd get a #REF! error.

Based on the post I'm "guessing" the table looks something like this (with
additional columns):

x.....1
.......2
.......3
.......4
y.....1
.......2
.......3
.......4

So, my formula is referencing the entire range of data including the empty
cells in the first column.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

> Hello Biff,
>
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>> >> Any ideas how I can do this?

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