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    Absolute Reference in INDEX MATCH?

    Hi,

    PLEASE HELP!

    In my spreadsheet I have the ID of the product I am searching for in column "A" and the Dates across row 7. there are thousands of dates and hundreds of products. I typed this formula to return a specific attribute (in array column #13) and it works in the first cell. but when I try to copy the formula across the next dates the formula updates MATCH(1,(Data!$A$2:$A$1557=A7) to MATCH(1,(Data!$A$2:$A$1557=B7). I tried to fix this with absolute refrence but I get a #N/A error.

    {=INDEX(Data!$A$2:$M$1557,MATCH(1,(Data!$A$2:$A$1557=A7)*(Data!$E$2:$E$1557=C6),0),13)}

    Does anyone know why i can't use absolute reference and if there is some way I can fix this?

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    Last edited by spreadthemsheets; 02-14-2017 at 02:12 PM. Reason: Crosspotting

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    Re: Absolute Reference in INDEX MATCH?

    Can you please attach the file?

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    Re: Absolute Reference in INDEX MATCH?

    =INDEX(Data!$A$2:$M$1557,MATCH(1,(Data!$A$2:$A$1557=$A7)*(Data!$E$2:$E$1557=$C6),0),13)


    will keep A and C references if that is what you require

    Or

    =INDEX(Data!$A$2:$M$1557,MATCH(1,(Data!$A$2:$A$1557=$A7)*(Data!$E$2:$E$1557=C6),0),13)

    if you want c to change to D etc

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    Re: Absolute Reference in INDEX MATCH?

    Thanks for the help. It was a stupid mistake on my part. I needed to press ctrl + Shift + Enter. Wow, by bad.

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    Re: Absolute Reference in INDEX MATCH?

    If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED. Thanks.

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