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[wbfd25]

is there a formula that would allow me to search a whole sheet from another sheet given 2 options but only one needs to be filled in. such as you could either searh by their last name or by their special code and the search will pull up the same information??? i currently have a vlookup formula running that searches another sheet given the special code i am wondering if there is a way to add in the las name option weather i have to insert a comma, or use the or function i am not quite sure where to go from here any help would be awesome thank you

 

[Akashwani]

Hi,

There is probably a better way, but perhaps an IF formula would work for you.

Sample data and example result 1....

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	ID	First Name	Last Name	Data		ID	Last Name	Result
2	ID001	Mickey	Mouse	Red		ID005		Black
3	ID002	Donald	Duck	Blue
4	ID003	Donald	Trump	Green
5	ID004	Will	Smith	Yellow
6	ID005	Willy	Wonka	Black
7	ID006	David	Bowie	brown
8	ID007	James	Bond	Gold
9
Sheet5

Sample data and example result 2....

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	ID	First Name	Last Name	Data		ID	Last Name	Result
2	ID001	Mickey	Mouse	Red			Trump	Green
3	ID002	Donald	Duck	Blue
4	ID003	Donald	Trump	Green
5	ID004	Will	Smith	Yellow
6	ID005	Willy	Wonka	Black
7	ID006	David	Bowie	brown
8	ID007	James	Bond	Gold
9
Sheet5

You will obviously have to add the relevant sheet name and cell references to suit your layout.

I hope that helps.

Ak