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Theresa has attended:
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I am trying to work with a formular set up by a colleague no longer with the company and need to use it in my work.

Formular does relate to other columns but can you kinldy interpret it for me so I can understand better where the values are coming from.

IF(VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,2,0)=0,VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,3,0),VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,2,0)).

Many thanks,
Theresa

RE: VLook up

Hi [...], thanks for your query. Might be best to separate out the individual arguments forming the IF statement:

IF(VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,2,0)=0,

...this is the initial test. It's taking the value from H15 and checking whether that value in column index number 2 of the table array $E$2:$G$10 is set to zero.....

VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,3,0),

...if it is 0, it returns the value from column index number 3

VLOOKUP(H15,$E$2:$G$10,2,0)).

...if H15 doesn't have 0 in it, it brings back the value from column index number 2.

Hope this helps,

Anthony

Fri 23 Apr 2010: Automatically marked as resolved.

 

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