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    Index/Match/Large Duplication of items; not returning true values

    Hi All,

    I have looked through some of the pages on the forum here for a solution to this and although there are some close matches, none seem to deal exactly with this. If I have missed a post somewhere, please feel free to point me in that direction.

    I have what appears to be a relatively simple problem. I have 2 columns, one with product names and a second with product quantity. I am running a Large function to extract the top 10 products based on quantity. I then run an Index/Match function to extract the product name. I am running into an issue where there are identical values for Quantity and the Index/Match function is only returning the first value it finds for producst. My query is 2 fold:

    Firstly, my understanding of Index/Match is that you are creating a reference, ie, this is the 12th value in this column and you are then getting the 12th value from your index array. Based on this assumption the Index/Match formula should work regardless of duplicates because you are in theory returning a matrix reference point. So my first question is how is my theory falling down here?

    Secondly, should I be adding an IF statement into this Index/Match function to some how deal with duplicates? Am I using the incorrect formula?

    Please see the attached spreadsheet for an example of what I am referring to.

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    Re: Index/Match/Large Duplication of items; not returning true values

    Darren in F2 and copy down, put this ARRAY formula.

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    Re: Index/Match/Large Duplication of items; not returning true values

    Please try this file.
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    Re: Index/Match/Large Duplication of items; not returning true values

    One more approach with CSE..

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    in F2..

    ...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.
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