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Bert Onstott
Aug 08, 2020Copper Contributor
XLookup with Structured Table References
I can't find anything that directly speaks to this, so I'll post here. I have a table of individuals with some columns of information. It's defined as as a table. I have another table where I ...
- Aug 08, 2020
Bert Onstott If those are real names and info, please delete and only supply phony informations.
As for what is happening is the '@' which is saying look only at this specific row. So change it to this and it seems to work fine:
=XLOOKUP([@Name],MasterlistTable[Name],MasterlistTable[Phone 1],"error")
so now it looks at the Name in this table on THIS (@) line, but searches the entire MasterlistTable[Name] instead of only 1 row of that table.
mtarler
Aug 08, 2020Silver Contributor
Bert Onstott If those are real names and info, please delete and only supply phony informations.
As for what is happening is the '@' which is saying look only at this specific row. So change it to this and it seems to work fine:
=XLOOKUP([@Name],MasterlistTable[Name],MasterlistTable[Phone 1],"error")
so now it looks at the Name in this table on THIS (@) line, but searches the entire MasterlistTable[Name] instead of only 1 row of that table.
allison3145
Oct 15, 2021Copper Contributor
Thank you so much!!! I am new to using XLOOKUP and did not know about this @ symbol for table structure. This saved me!!