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    Angry populating column based on table ID & Category

    Populate the Item Category associated with the Item ID number from the table below
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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Is this some kind of homework ?

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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Is this some sort of homework?

    You should provide espected results (manually calculated).
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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Unfortunately yes... having a really hard time with the typical vlookup or properly formatting an Index Match to get the result i need..

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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Expected result for this Question is to return the Item ID from table if it matches to the Item ID in Column 1 and return the Item category if that Item ID matches. Thanks

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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Try:

    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2,$G$14:$H$20,2,FALSE),"")

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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    Thank you!! i was trying to do Index(Vlookup, searching column 1 against the Table.

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    Re: populating column based on table ID & Category

    You're welcome.



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