Match Lookup to another worksheet

HNarli

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Hi,

I have the following VLOOKUP formula which is working well. =IF(D9>=1,IFERROR(VLOOKUP(D9,[Tbl_XX_Costs.xlsx]Sheet1!$B$2:$S$4999,4,FALSE),"EMPTY"),"")

However I came by an article online that explained that using the MATCH instead of Vlookups to a column is better because if the column in the table ever moved it won't break the spreadsheet. For this reason I would like to swap my formula to use the MATCH way instead.

Their example is this:

VLOOKUP EXAMPLE =VLOOKUP(B5, Table1, 2, 0)
MATCH EXAMPLE =VLOOKUP(B5, Table1, MATCH(C4,Table1[#Headers],0), 0)

I've tried myself to adapt my version to match lookup to table1 to the column header 'Part' but no matter what I try it doesn't work. I think it's because my version links to a separate workbook. Can anyone help me adapt my version to work with the match example above. I hope that makes sense!

MY VERSION =IF(D9>=1,IFERROR(VLOOKUP(D9,[Tbl_XX_Costs.xlsx]Sheet1!$B$2:$S$4999,4,FALSE),"EMPTY"),"")

Thanks :)
 
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