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Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbooks.

  1. 12-20-2013, 07:39 AM #1
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    Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbooks.

    So the problem is that I have two workbooks: one has a set of identifying values which are a subset of one of the sets of values in the second and I need to match them up. In addition I need to take the values two columns to the right of the matched values in the second workbook and put them in the first.

    Here is what my formula looks like now.

    =IF(A5=VLOOKUP(A5,'[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!$A:$A,1,TRUE),INDEX('[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!,MATCH(A5,'[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!$A:$A,0),3),"NF")

    Whenever I try to run it an error message comes up and highlights the match function name. I urgently need some help with this. :s
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  2. 12-20-2013, 07:47 AM #2
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    Re: Need some assistance with my formula

    '[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!

    I think that bit is your problem before the match function. There is no cell reference.
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    Re: Need some assistance with my formula

    Thanks but no success. Just returns a #N/A :/
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    Re: Need some assistance with my formula

    Sorry, fixed the title.
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Hi,

    Did you read yudlugar's post? You must have a range reference for the INDEX.

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  6. 12-20-2013, 08:23 AM #6
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Can you upload workbooks with examples of the data please, I think that may be where the problem lies?
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Here are the attatched files, so in this case it would be the same except we replace [WBOOK2] with [example] right?Dominic.xlsxexample.xlsx
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Domwell, you need to use the =TRIM function on the data in your first workbook and then the problem is solveable.
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    What should the result be in C5 of the example worksheet?
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Thanks a bunch, that worked it out. I'll be on the lookout for that in the future.
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Your formula references something called:

    Dash8RotablesFinalv1.1xlsx

    I'm curious - I have never heard of the file extension .1xlsx - can you tell me what kind of file that is?

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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    Once I trimmed the data in the first sheet and added the reference for the index functio nit worked out.
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    Re: Trying to make a formula to fetch data related to a matched value in separate workbook

    domwell, the reason I asked was I think that maybe you could just use:
    =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(trim(A5),'[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!$A:$C,3,FALSE)),"NF",VLOOKUP(trim(A5),'[WBOOK2]Sheet1'!$A:$C,3,FALSE))

    I didn't quite follow what your formula was trying to do so asked what the result should be - your method seems overly complicated.
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