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    need help with VLOOKUP formula please

    I'm assuming this is beginners stuff. Maybe not, maybe I've graduated. Let me know if I should use another sub forum.

    Anyway, so here is the formula:

    =VLOOKUP($J$2,maint!$I9:$EL26,MATCH(table17[[#Headers],[price9]],table17[[#Headers],[To: owner/rep]:[notes13]],0),0)


    But don't get lost in it. The problem pretty much lies in the "maint!$I9:EL26" range.

    I always have to edit this address as I add rows to this range. Major pain in the butt as I have like 30-40 cells with this formula.

    As you know I hope, the VLOOKUP requires you to start your range at the column where you need to lookup the field to match with your lookup cell, SO... you can't really address a particular table, in my case, a "dynamic" ever-changing one. And I think that is my problem. I know that if it wasn't using VLOOKUP I could use named ranges/tables to refer to data and it would always refer to whatever cells the table contained, but there is no 'name' for that range inside a table to name. Or is there? Can I create another table inside the table starting at column I and name it and then refer to it?


    If not, is there some other way to get VLOOKUP to update on it's own?

    Thanks!
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    Re: need help with VLOOKUP formula please

    I think I made a thread about this before but I never actually learned anything from it, that it just resolved itself somehow. But whatever it is it is with me now and I don't know how to get it off me. Help pleeease!


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    Re: need help with VLOOKUP formula please

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    Re: need help with VLOOKUP formula please

    If you use INDEX MATCH instead of VLOOKUP, you will not have the 'internal range' issue. As Oeldere says, attach a sample file and we'll be able to offer more precise advice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AliGW View Post
    If you use INDEX MATCH instead of VLOOKUP, you will not have the 'internal range' issue. As Oeldere says, attach a sample file and we'll be able to offer more precise advice.
    Thank you aliG who isn't into aliG! I believe this is the solution I'm looking for. I'll marked this solved unless I run into a problem but I just looked up the combination and looks like it will work

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    Re: need help with VLOOKUP formula please

    It's AliGW, not AliG!

    Glad to have helped. If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED. Thanks.

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