Hello and thanks for taking the time to ready, & hopefully help an inexperienced excel user.
I have a very large list of unique ID's, each of which has a specific name attached to the ID. In a separate worksheet I have all the unique ID's and their names listed side-by-side in a long list.
I need to write a function that works as follows,
1. Look at the unique ID in the cell TO THE LEFT
2. Find the matching name in the master list of unique IDs
3. Display the name of the unique ID in the current CELL that has this equation.
This is what I have mustered so far:
=VLOOKUP(F37,ProjectValues,2,FALSE)
The problem is when I copy this code to another cell on another sheet it doesn't immediately adjust to grab data from the cell to the left. I've tried searching, but I wasn't able to get the dynamic references & functions to work in place of that "F37".
Is this the easiest way to do this? If not what can we do to make that F37 a dynamic reference "1 cell to the left of this one?"
To grab from the left.. you need Index/Match
e.g
=Index(A1:A100,Match(F37,B1:B100,0))
this will match F37 to B1:B100 and return what is in A1:A100
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