Drastically shorten your training time with WalkMe's advanced online training solution that Guides your trainees to action. Forget about retraining and skyrocket knowledge retention rates.
Course Of The Month
7 days, 12 hours left to enrollBecome a Premium Member and unlock a new, free course in leading technologies each month.
Solved
Having Problems with VLOOKUP Formula
Posted on 2016-07-17
EE Pros,
I've worked about an hour on trying to solve a simple problem with a VLOOKUP Formula. Been through all the help and samples.... here's the issue. I want to select a text descriptor from a List Box and have it run the corresponding table number. I've attached the actual WS with the problem described.
Thank you in advance.
B.
Formula-Fix.xlsm
I've worked about an hour on trying to solve a simple problem with a VLOOKUP Formula. Been through all the help and samples.... here's the issue. I want to select a text descriptor from a List Box and have it run the corresponding table number. I've attached the actual WS with the problem described.
Thank you in advance.
B.
Formula-Fix.xlsm
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
-
4
2
- +1
10 Comments
In addition to Kevin's comment, you'll also need to change some of the data in your VLOOKUP table to match what the value of the drop-list will be.
eg. for EW, you won't get a match unless you change cell I12 to "Early Warning" from "EW". The abbreviated names (EW, PM, CM) in column I won't match with any of the drop-list items and you'll end up with #N/A as the result for those.
eg. for EW, you won't get a match unless you change cell I12 to "Early Warning" from "EW". The abbreviated names (EW, PM, CM) in column I won't match with any of the drop-list items and you'll end up with #N/A as the result for those.
Active today
Please try this....
In G5
In G5
=IFERROR(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(F5,$I$9:$J$16,2,0),VLOOKUP(LEFT(F5,1)&MID(F5,FIND(" ",F5)+1,1),I8:J15,2,0)),"")
Active 4 days ago
I quickly got Kevin's solution to work. Matt, thanks for the heads up.....made the changes. Neeraj, as always thank you for providing additional support to trap the errors and make things work. I elected to stay with Kevin's formula due to its simplicity. However, I'm keeping Neeraj's formula in reserve to use at a later date.
Thanks again guys for jumping on this.
B.
Thanks again guys for jumping on this.
B.
Active 4 days ago
I closed this question out a week ago. How do I insure these three EE Pros get their points? They did a great job for me.
B.
B.
Active today
You may see the Martin's recommendation for splitting the points below. If you don't agree with this or want to split the points differently, you may add a comment and click on Object.
Martin Liss requested that this question be closed on 8/14/2016, as follows:
zorvek (Kevin Jones)'s comment #a41716195 (250 points)
mattratt's comment #a41716242 (125 points)
Subodh Tiwari (Neeraj)'s comment #a41716291 (125 points)
Featured Post
Drastically shorten your training time with WalkMe's advanced online training solution that Guides your trainees to action. Forget about retraining and skyrocket knowledge retention rates.
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
Suggested Solutions
| Title | # Comments | Views | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| autofill formulas using macro | 8 | 51 | |
| VBA - Why copy area and paste area arent the same size error? | 3 | 45 | |
| Additional Controls in Excel VBA Does Not Show Anything | 5 | 22 | |
| Combine Vlookup with indirect sheet reference | 3 | 21 |
A little background as to how I came to I design this code:
Around 5 years ago I designed an add-in that formatted Excel files to a corporate standard, applying different cell colours and font type depending on whether the cells contained inputs,…
Convert between Excel file formats (.XLS, .XLSX, .XLSM) with/without macro option
David Miller (dlmille)
Intro
Over this past Fall, I've had the opportunity to see several similar requests and have developed a couple related solutions associate…
This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how to use longer labels with horizontal bar charts instead of the vertical column chart.
This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate the scrolling table in Microsoft Excel using the INDEX function.
Suggested Courses
Course of the Month7 days, 12 hours left to enroll
737 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.