The first cell is skipped because it will never be the same as previous
entry, i.e. there is no previous entry.

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HTH

RP

"cynder77" wrote in message
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the real cell refs are E3, and G3 for my first line due to titles being
in the first 2 rows. I figured i could successfully transpose your
formula by altering the cell refs but it doesn't seem to work. Here's
what i did to your formula

=IF(E4="","",VLOOKUP(E4,$E$3:G3,3,FALSE))

I assumed you skipped the first line on the first E ref in the formula
for a reason so i carried the trend throughout and adjusted your A1 to
my E3.

Also, this cells value is used to calculate a total value based upon
the number of peices mis-shipped and this cells value, the cost per
peice. Does this affect anything?

Thanks,
Dave Corvec


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