Thread: Excel 2007 - Formula to return value based on matching of two separate text values

Hi All - I am an experienced but not expert user of Excel 2007. I am working on a report for my job and can't seem to come up with the correct formula to accomplish my goal. Here's what I'm trying to do: I need to return a text value based on two separate criteria matching (also text). For example:

Company A Sales Joe Smith
Company B Finance Mike Jones
Company C HR Jane Doe
Company D Accounting Rich Joseph


What I'm trying to accomplish is create a formula that will return the person's name to a table on a separate sheet based on the matching of the Company name and the department. The sample above has roughly 300 lines of data and 13 different company names so they all repeat 13 times. Is this possible through a formula or can it only be done via Macro?

Thanks so much for any help that you may be able to provide!

Jon

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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