=VLOOKUPreturnstowrongrow

[Elmac511]

=VLOOKUP returns b37 into c2 not into c37. why?

 

[PaddyD]

Hi - welcome to the board!

You're going to have to give us a bit more info to work on than that

How about posting the formula you're using and a representative sample of the data..?

 

[Elmac511]

=vlookup(“New York”,A2:C100,3,False). Col A was sorted and is the City. Col B is the emp-name. Col C is where I want the emp-name it finds to go. Ex. Found “New York” hit in Row37 ColA. Next column cell B37 is his name which I want put in Col C row 37. It is going into row 2 of col. C. Ps. Thank you for replying. Am new to vlookup. I say I am advanced beginner ready to go into the intermediate category.

 

[Joe4]

I think you want this:

[COLOR=#333333]=vlookup("New York",A2:B100,2,False)[/COLOR]

You were telling it to look up "New York" in column A, and return the value from column C in that row. But it sounds like you actually want to return the value from column B.
In the formula, you don't tell it which cell to return the value to. The value will be returned to whatever cell you have placed the formula in.

For more on VLOOKUP, take a look at the examples here:
https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2014/07/17/excel-vlookup-tutorial-beginner/

 

[Elmac511]

Yes, thank you for explaining that. I am much more knowledgeable of the vlookup function.