Lookup Commands to find 2nd (or 3rd) instance

[cob98tp]

Hi All,

I have a list of data stored horizontally across a sheet, and am using HLOOKUP to find data - which all works ok.

However the problem I have is that there may be more thaan 1 match, but I can only ever return the first entry. Is there anyway of changing this to return the 2nd or 3rd entry as well, in cases where the match criteria occurs more than once?

Many Thanks

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Hi All,

I have a list of data stored horizontally across a sheet, and am using HLOOKUP to find data - which all works ok.

However the problem I have is that there may be more thaan 1 match, but I can only ever return the first entry. Is there anyway of changing this to return the 2nd or 3rd entry as well, in cases where the match criteria occurs more than once?

Many Thanks

Care to post your working formula?

 

[cob98tp]

Ok, My formula is a little complicated as I am using an indirect to look at the right row..

=HLOOKUP(E10,INDIRECT("'DiaryData'!$D$"&(A3*8)-6&":$IV$"&(A3*8)),6,0)

A3 contains a number which corresponds to a date. (A3*8)-6 therefore is the row number for the date I'm looking for. Each entry in the Datalist Has 8 rows of info and looks a bit like this...

Date 1 Name
Info 1
Info 2

Info 8
Date 2 Name
Info 1

and so on, with the data stored in the columns next to these headings. The HLOOKUP looks for the correct Name and returns the value in the 'Info 6' row at the moment.

What I want is to have another formula that will look for the 2nd and 3rd instances (if they exist) of the agent name, and display Info 6 again.

Hopefully that is a bit clearer... Many thanks