Please help! Formula issue

[batexcel]

Hello,
(formula in col F)

I had the following formula; (old formula)

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B3,$B$2:$F2,5,0),SWAPSHOP(B3,$B$3:$E$500,$I$3:$L$9)))

This formula would always return a value in Col F regardless of if Col E was blank or not.

I amended the formula to; (new formula)

=IF(E3="","",IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B3,$B$2:$F2,5,0),SWAPSHOP(B3,$B$3:$E$500,$I$3:$L$9)))

This now means that if Col E is blank then Col F also remains blank.

However this is not quite my desire.

I have a series of codes in Col B, sometimes they are identical. If Col C there will be a corresponding code description. If there is information in Col E then then formula is supposed to return a new code description - however now even if there is a value in E4 and E5 for material 100 because E3 is blank for code 100 the new code description does not update in Col F.


Please see attached for a visual of what I am trying to explain as I am struggling a fair bit to explain (I have knocked out all formulas and put this on a new spreadsheet to what I am really working on)

[batexcel]

Essentially, if Col B3/4/5 has a code occurring multiple times and there is information in Col E4 for example I need Col F4 to populate in that row with Col E3 and E5 being blank then F3 and F5 remain blank.

[batexcel]

=if($e3="","",iferror(index($f:$f,aggregate(15,6,row($e$2:$e2)/($b$2:$b2=$b3)/($f$2:$f2<>""),1)),swapshop(b3,$b$3:$e$500,$i$3:$l$9)))

[AliGW]

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