Returning a value in one column that corresponds to the same value in another cell

[Quadhurst]

Good evening.

I am sure I am not explaining myself well in the title of this question but the attached file will, I hope, help. I know that I can solve this problem by loads of IF statements but wonder if there is a much easier way.

I have a list of values that represents all the possible values that a singe, ever-changing, cell might be (say A1). All those values are in one column (say, C1:C41). In the adjacent column is another list of values (say, D1:D41), each one representing what its equivalent in the adjacent column needs to return in another single cell, say F5. So if cell A1 says 4.5, its identical value in C1:C41 is C3. I want cell F5 to return the value 49, which is the value in cell D3. I've played aroudn with INDEX and MATCH functions but cannot get anything to work. Any advice or solutions would be much appreciated.

Regards.



Andrew

[Pete_UK]

You can put this formula in F5:

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A1,C:D,2,0),"not found")

Hope this helps.

Pete

[Quadhurst]

Oh that is so simple. Thank you so much. I feel very stupid about this. I thought that VLOOKUP wouldn't work. I am so grateful to you.

Regards.



Andrew

[Pete_UK]

You can use the VLOOKUP function where the lookup column is the left-most column of the table (in this case C:D), which it is. You can also use INDEX/MATCH, but it is a bit longer. If you wanted to do it the other way around, i.e. lookup column D and return the corresponding value from column C, then you would have to use INDEX/MATCH.

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Pete

[Quadhurst]

I will certainly do that (have already, actually). Once again, many thanks, Pete.

Regards.



Andrew