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Help needed with excel formula
- Mar 23, 2018
In fact it's not very tricky.
COMPARE($A2;'Table 1'!$A$1:$A$4;0) search in column A in Table 1 for the position of the actual M-number in $A2 and returns the row number (lets call it r).
Then I use this row number r to search for the actual P-number (cell B$1) in row r in Table 1.
I search from column A to Z in row r in Table 1, but search from column B would have been ok as well as, as the P-numbers starts in column B and not A.
If the P-number do exist the COMPARE returns the column number - which I don't use - I just want to know that it exist. If the actual P-number don't exist in this row (r) the COMPARE will give an error and that's why I have inserted a IF.ERR around the hole statement.
And then finally I show a X if the P-number exist and an empty text if it doesn't.
Hope that make sense.
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