Lookup on various criteria

species8514

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Hi, I have a report that is run from another system, and unfortunately there is no way of altering the format of how it outputs the data. An example of what I get is:

Anne
9:00
10:36 a
11:49
13:34 c
14:35
15:10 a
17:00

bob
7:20
7:45 a
8:00
8:45
9:00 c
10:00
11:00 a
13:00

carly
20:00
20:10 a
20:20 c
21:00 a
22:30


It's probably easy, but I can't think of an easy solution, but essentially what I need to do is, return the value which matches the second instance of "a" for Bob, which would be 11:00.

Any help would be grateful.
 

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Excel Workbook
ABCDE
1AnneWhobob
29:00Valuea
310:36aInstance2
411:49Result11:00
513:34c
614:35
715:10a
817:00
9
10bob
117:20
127:45a
138:00
148:45
159:00c
1610:00
1711:00a
1813:00
19
20carly
2120:00
2220:10a
2320:20c
2421:00a
2522:30
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