Question about use of VLOOKUP

[Ozone9012]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post and I expect I'll be here for a while, as I am trying to wrap my head around Excel

I have a question which baffled me for quite a bit, basically, I have this database of transactions throughout an entire year, which contains the Order no., Order date (mm/dd/yyyy), Product name, Quantity, Status, Value, Address.

I am trying to use VLOOKUP to list all the Order numbers marked as "Delivered" ( which would be listed in the Status column ) in the month of August, 2021.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate immensely. Thank you

 

[Fluff]

Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
You cannot use vlookup for that, but you could use filter like

=FILTER(A2:A1000,(E2:E1000="Delivered")*(TEXT(B2:B1000,"mmmyy")="Aug21"))

 

[Ozone9012]

Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
You cannot use vlookup for that, but you could use filter like

=FILTER(A2:A1000,(E2:E1000="Delivered")*(TEXT(B2:B1000,"mmmyy")="Aug21"))

Thanks for the quick reply and for the help <3

I will definitely try this out. What if I tried to use a pivot table and then use a Vlookup function as I can, then, rearrange the data to fit my needs.

 

[Fluff]

I've never used pivot tables, so know nothing about them. Hwever vlookup will only find the first value that matched the criteria, so it will not return all the orders numbers.

 

[Ozone9012]

I've never used pivot tables, so know nothing about them. Hwever vlookup will only find the first value that matched the criteria, so it will not return all the orders numbers.

Got it, I'll try to look for creative ways of looking into this, I find it quite challenging and a fun way to learn Excel. Thanks again for your help

 

[Fluff]

Does the formula I suggested not work?

 

[Ozone9012]

Does the formula I suggested not work?

Sorry for the delay, I am trying to reply as fast as I can between my other work.

It returns an error (empty array) but I think it is about the date format, I'll try to play around with it for now

 

[Fluff]

Do you have any orders where col F is Delivered & col C is in August?
If so check that your dates are real dates & not text. You can do that by formatting col C as General & you should see 5 digit numbers.