What's wrong with my formula?

Copper Contributor

Device: MacBook Air v. 10.15.5

Excel v. 16.49

 

I'm using an exported data table from a teaching website to find schools to apply to. My goal is to use conditional formatting to "cross-off" schools that are outside of my commute radius. On the first sheet is the table. The second sheet has all the zipcodes that I can commute to. Right now, I have this as my formula:

=XLOOKUP(ADDRESS(ROW(H7),COLUMN(H7),3),'Sheet1!'$A$2:$A$82,Sheet1!$B$2:$B$82,FALSE)

However, it says that this isn't a formula. Did I do something wrong? 

 

I rather learn what it is that I've done wrong and how to improve the formula than have someone do it for me.

 

Thanks for the help!

3 Replies

@0riginal 

The use of ADDRESS() as a search criteria makes no sense.

=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$82,LEFT([@[Street Zip]],5))

 

@Detlef Lewin 

 

Okay, so does the Conditional Formatting automatically change the formula given the position of the cell? In other words, when I am creating a conditional formatting formula that edits a row based on one cell, does the formula update at each row to know to look at that row? Hopefully, that makes some type of sense. EDIT: I also tried that formula that you gave, but it isn't working still. It says that the syntax of the name is incorrect.

@0riginal 

I overlooked that you wanted a conditional formatting rule.
Small change.

 =COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$82,LEFT($H7,5))

Select H7:H105 and the put the formula in the conditional formatting rule. The rule will apply in memory to all the cells.