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Mark Wiper
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Jul 16, 2018
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Excel Lookup function multiple criteria

Hi Apologies if this query is already answered but I cant for the life of me find it!   I want to interrogate the table for a specific search string generated from multiple drop downs and display t...
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    IngeborgHawighorst
    Jul 17, 2018

    Hello,

     

    that sample file is really helpful.  I can suggest two approaches:

     

    Approach 1: use a helper column where you combine all the lookup criteria into a lookup key. Insert a new column after F and in the new column G enter this formula in row 2 and copy down:

     

    =A2&B2&C2&E2

     

    It combines all the values to one lookup key. Now you can refer to that lookup key in an Index/Match combination formula in cell M2:

     

    =INDEX($F$2:$F$13,MATCH(I2&J2&K2&L2,$G$2:$G$13,0))

     

    Or, if you don't want to use the helper column, you can do it all in one step, but the result may take a while to calculate if you have many rows of data. I'm still taking into account that a column G was added, so the cell references are a bit different from your original layout, but you can see it working in the attached file. In cell M3 I use the formula 

     

    =INDEX($F$2:$F$13,MATCH(I3&J3&K3&L3,INDEX($A$2:$A$13&$B$2:$B$13&$C$2:$C$13&E2:E13,0),0))

     

    File is attached. Let me know if that helped.

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