vlookup with two criteria

I've read a few threads trying to find my answer but they were too abstract for me to understand.

Lets say on one spreadsheet I have my actual sales:

Customer Part Sales
Cisco A $W
Nortel A $X
Cisco B $Y
Nortel B $Z

I have a second spread sheet with my forecasted sales

Customer Part Sales
Cisco A $??

What I want to do is have a vlookup of the actual sales figure of Part A. The problem is, I have two criteria. It not only has to be the sales for Part A, it has to be only Cisco sales for part A when multiple customers are buying this same part.

So, how do I do a two criteria Vlookup?

-John

Hi
There may be better solutions, but i always do this..
Insert a column before forecast sales, and put customer & partno by =a2&b2,
copy down to end.
actual sales sheet, if your forecast sales is next to sales in d column

put at d2, =VLOOKUP(A2&B2,Sheet2!C$1:D$5,2,FALSE)

you will get $??


"hollister22nh" wrote:

>
> I've read a few threads trying to find my answer but they were too
> abstract for me to understand.
>
> Lets say on one spreadsheet I have my actual sales:
>
> Customer Part Sales
> Cisco A $W
> Nortel A $X
> Cisco B $Y
> Nortel B $Z
>
> I have a second spread sheet with my forecasted sales
>
> Customer Part Sales
> Cisco A $??
>
> What I want to do is have a vlookup of the actual sales figure of Part
> A. The problem is, I have two criteria. It not only has to be the
> sales for Part A, it has to be only Cisco sales for part A when
> multiple customers are buying this same part.
>
> So, how do I do a two criteria Vlookup?
>
> -John
>
>
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Assuming that A2:C5 contains your data, try the following formula which
needs to be confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER...

=INDEX(C2:C5,MATCH(1,(A2:A5=E2)*(B2:B5=F2),0))

....where E2 contains the customer of interest, and F2 contains the part
of interest.

Hope this helps!

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hollister22nh
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I've read a few threads trying to find my answer but they were too
> abstract for me to understand.
>
> Lets say on one spreadsheet I have my actual sales:
>
> Customer Part Sales
> Cisco A $W
> Nortel A $X
> Cisco B $Y
> Nortel B $Z
>
> I have a second spread sheet with my forecasted sales
>
> Customer Part Sales
> Cisco A $??
>
> What I want to do is have a vlookup of the actual sales figure of Part
> A. The problem is, I have two criteria. It not only has to be the
> sales for Part A, it has to be only Cisco sales for part A when
> multiple customers are buying this same part.
>
> So, how do I do a two criteria Vlookup?
>
> -John