Hi
if your data is sorted ascending try:
=VLOOKUP(3,A1:A20,1,TRUE)

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

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I am trying to use vlookup and nested IF functions, but cannot get it
to
work-maybe I am not using the right funtions. I have a number that I
want to
look up and if it is not found, I want to add 1 to it and look that
up. I
only need to do it about 5 times so I thought if I used vlookup &
nested IF's
I could get it. Here is example:

A
1 2
2 5
3 6
4 7
I want to start with looking up 3 and if it is there, return 3 but if
it
isn't, add 1 to the 3 and look it up and return it, and if it isn't
add 2 to
the 3, look it up and return it and if it isn't, return 0.

Any ideas?