Alternative to Vlookup rounding down

[Jhmtaylor]

I know that Vlookup rounds down if it does not find a perfect match.

I have a problem where if a perfect match is not found the result needs to be the next highest.

Suggestions as to fixes, work arounds or outright tricks et al to solve this problem would be appreciated

 

[Richard Schollar]

I assume your data is sorted as you are using VLOOKUP with the optional 4th argument set to TRUE (or omitted). Thus, you can do what you want with INDEX/MATCH:

=INDEX(YourDataRange,IF(ISNA(MATCH(YourLookupValue,YourLookupRange,0)),MATCH(YourLookupValue,YourLookupRange,1)+1,MATCH(YourLookupValue,YourLookupRange,0)),YourLookupColumn)

So, if you had data in $A$1:$C$10, and you wanted to lookup value in D1 and data in column C of lookup range, you would use:

=INDEX($A$1:$C$10,IF(ISNA(MATCH(D1,$A$1:$A$10,0)),MATCH(D1,$A$1:$A$10,1)+1,MATCH(D1,$A$1:$A$10,0)),3)

Hope this makes sense!

Richard

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

I know that Vlookup rounds down if it does not find a perfect match.

I have a problem where if a perfect match is not found the result needs to be the next highest.

Suggestions as to fixes, work arounds or outright tricks et al to solve this problem would be appreciated

For a table, say in A2:B10, sorted on its first column (A2:A10) and X2 housing a lookup value of interest...

=INDEX($B$2:$B$10,MATCH(X2,$A$2:$A$10,1)+(LOOKUP(X2,$A$2:$A$10)<>X2))

 

[Richard Schollar]

That's a nice formula Aladin - I shall remember it.

Richard