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Joy Amobi
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Oct 12, 2018

INDEX and MATCH Function help

I am trying to use the functions above as opposed to Vlookup to place the new salaries for the staff from sheet 2 to sheet 1.

The new salaries are in Sheet 2 and are sorted by Staff ID.

I want these salaries to reflect in Sheet 1 but located in Column J thereby replacing the old salary figures there.

I have tried this with my actual data set and have got error messages ranging from #Ref to N/A.

I have tried to make sure I have the same data in both sheets as i discovered that if there is a name on one sheet that is not on the other it throws off the formula.

Also i thought that with this function, i did not have to worry about sorting my data but that appears not to be the case.

Here is the formula I used for my actual data set 

INDEX(Sheet1!$E$2:$E$245,MATCH(Sheet1!A51,'3WORKINPROGRESS'!$D$2:$D$245,0))

Sheet1E2:E245 is where the new salary values are

Sheet1 Column A is where the Staff ID is (both are on the same sheet)

D2:D245 is where the staff ID with the old salaries are located (different sheet to the above)

 

I am sorry this is long, but i hope someone can understand what i am saying and use the sample sheets attached to lay out the correct structure and show me where I am going wrong.

 

 

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