vlookup... the other direction

Andrew_Rossington

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I tried the normal Lookup function, but I can't sort my lookup column in ascending order due to the nature of my spreadsheet.

Is it possible to "vlookup" a value in column B and return the value from column A, for example?
 

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Thanks for your suggestion.

It's displaying #REF!

I think my forumla should look like this:

=INDEX(D7:G338,MATCH(E4,G7:G338,1))

Is it formatted correctly?
 
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More like:

=INDEX(D7:D338,MATCH(E4,G7:G338,FALSE))

the FALSE argument is necessary for an exact match if your data is not sorted.
 
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