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    Having issue trying to get a specific value to populate in another cell

    I am trying to read a column and then if value "Support" is present column I want to display the value in a different column on the same row.

    =IF(('ETC ForeCast'!F2:F75)="Support",'ETC ForeCast'!C2:C75,"No Incidents named Support")

    Now I can get this to work if I don't include the range at the beginning and I just look at one cell. Also I am running into the issue that I am looking at a column with 75 different cells that I am looking at, So it is possible that I could have to display 75 results. Now I know I cannot display 75 results on one cell. I need to be able to push the next result down to the next cell below and so one and so on. Also I have noticed that if I put this in to Cell A19 on my test sheet this will work because the VALUE I am looking for just so happens to be in row 19 on the data sheet. I am a noob when it comes to this stuff so I am sure I just done understand.

    This might be a better description.
    Column A has numbers(incident number). Column F has descriptions of the incident . A possible description could be "Support" I want to know what incident number has the Support description on my dashboard I created.



    Any suggestions
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    Re: Having issue getting a formula to work

    Try

    =IFERROR(INDEX('ETC ForeCast'!C2:C75,MATCH("Support",'ETC ForeCast'!F2:F75,0)),"No Incidents named Support")

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    Re: Having issue getting a formula to work

    Hi defilted,

    Please see the forum rules and update your thread title.
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    Re: Having issue getting a formula to work

    Jonmo1, this formula does work and will display the correct incident number for the first "Support" it finds. Thank you! My next questions is how would I get it to display the next one is finds as well. So I changed my data set to have 2 rows that contain the "Support" value and I still get only the first one. I would like the formula to auto populate the next cell down with the next "Support" is finds..
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    Re: Having issue trying to get a specific value to populate in another cell

    Glad to help.

    As far as the criteria, that's a whole other ball game.
    As you can see, Match will only find the first matching value it finds.

    I think it's possible to do what you want, but it's not exactly easy..

    Maybe this will help
    http://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/e...ltiple-matches


    @Mods, the title has been changed at the time I made this post.
    Last edited by Jonmo1; 07-31-2013 at 02:30 PM.

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    Re: Having issue trying to get a specific value to populate in another cell

    The link you provided is very helpful. This is something that I need to just spend some time with to understand each of the functions and why they have to be used in the manner they are setup. I have started to follow the guide and it looks promising. Thank you again. Also thanks for introducing me to this website. there are tons of helpful things there.

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    Re: Having issue trying to get a specific value to populate in another cell

    Glad to help.

    Here's another article that shows how to do it..
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...#_Toc273640147

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