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Old 08-18-2005, 04:41 PM
davelin davelin is offline
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Default Re: Tough Excel Question

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You could create a fourth column that is the combination of the first two and do a VLOOKUP on that column. Am I misunderstanding your question?

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And you have to sort the data by that column, I believe.

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For a real vlookup, this is true. Which is why it is often preferable to use Index(DataColumn, Match(LookupValue, KeyColumn,0),false) instead of a true vlookup. The Index and Match functions are also more flexible than vlookups.

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Interesting, although I know excel says it needs to be sorted as a default, I've never run into a problem using vlookup's on unsorted tables.
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