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Finding the column name for a value in a table
Hi Peter,
You need to the Index & Match combination to solve this!
But you need to nest another combination because you want to search the value in cell E1 in two rows!
The formula looks like this:
=IFERROR(INDEX(A1:C3,,MATCH(D1,A2:C2,0)),INDEX(A1:C3,,MATCH(D1,A3:C3,0)))
Hope that helps
That helps, thanks :)
What if I want to expand the table with more columns and rows? Is it possible to make the formula more dynamic?
- The problem we have here is that we are assuming that there will be no repeat values. As soon as there are then the column numbers will be added which gives the wrong result. Enter "38" into A7 for example and you will return Third (1+2).
Too old thread...
Yes, you are right, it is assumed we have unique values. For the modern Excel PeterBartholomew1 gave the solution above. For the legacy Excel to return first column where the value appears it could be like
=IFERROR( INDEX( $A$1:$C$1, AGGREGATE( 15, 6, 1 / ($A$2:$C$15 = $E$1) * COLUMN($A$2:$C$15), 1 ) ), "no such" )To show few columns with the target value it could be
=IFERROR( INDEX( $A$1:$C$1, AGGREGATE( 15, 6, 1 / ($A$2:$C$15 = $E$1) * COLUMN($A$2:$C$15), COLUMN()-COLUMN($J$1)+1 ) ), "" )and drag it to the right till first empty cell appear.
IF value is in one or more than cells than i want to show all the column name that have value
If you want the result as a comma separated list you could use
= TEXTJOIN(", ",,IF(data = searchCriterion, header, ""))To obtain a list
= TOCOL(IF(data = searchCriterion, header, NA()),3)Each formula tests every cell of the data table and uses a function to filter the results.
please help me out, i need a formula to select coloumn name, on basis of finding the min value .
i need a formula to selection-1 and selction-2 for selecting vendor with min values
place vendor-1 vendor-2 vendor-3 vendor-4 selection-1 selection-2 USA 5000 7000 5000 8000 vendor-1 vendor-3 INdia 9000 8000 8000 9500 vendor-2 vendor-3
