Use Vlookup to find less than today

[Bruce]

I have the following array that uses a date to lookup my array (i.e. in E4).
=VLOOKUP(E4,'e1'!H:I,2,1)

I want to modify this so that it looksup the value less that today. For
example if today is the 25th April 2006 it would return 24th April 2006.

I thought of using dateadd but it would not account for weekends (or public
holidays in my data. For example the record prior to Monday 24th April would
be Friday 21st April.

Any ideas?

Bruce

[daddylonglegs]

Perhaps

=LOOKUP(TODAY()-1,'e1'!H:I)

[CarlosAntenna]

To account for weekends, you would need to expand on daddy's formula like
this:

=IF(WEEKDAY(E4,2)=1,VLOOKUP(E4-3,'e1'!H:I,2,1),VLOOKUP(E4-1,'e1'!H:I,2,1))

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Carlos

"Bruce" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have the following array that uses a date to lookup my array (i.e. in
E4).
> =VLOOKUP(E4,'e1'!H:I,2,1)
>
> I want to modify this so that it looksup the value less that today. For
> example if today is the 25th April 2006 it would return 24th April 2006.
>
> I thought of using dateadd but it would not account for weekends (or
public
> holidays in my data. For example the record prior to Monday 24th April
would
> be Friday 21st April.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bruce

[PetroffP]

Holidays are a problem in Excel, you would have to create a separate
lookup table of the holidays and factor it in. To just deal with
weekends, what about
=VLOOKUP(E4-CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(E4),2,1,1,1,1,1,1),'e1'!H:I,2,1)