Hi there,

I am trying to compare two fixed arrays and each of the two parts of the
formula seem to return the correct values, but the equation itself doesn't
seem to work as desired:

=VLOOKUP(B1,Sheet2!$C$1:$J$10,{1;5;6;7;8},FALSE)=I NDIRECT({"B1","F1","G1","H1","J1"})

when pressing F9 while in formula bar it looks like this:

={"d";"d";"d";"d";"d"}={"d","e","d","d","d"}

but the final result is:

={#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!;#VALUE!,
#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!;#VALUE!,#VALUE!,
#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!;#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,
#VALUE!,#VALUE!;#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#VALUE!,#V ALUE!}
(looks like each element in one array is compared to each element in the
other)

which yields =TRUE (???)

If I use SUMPRODUCT:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(VLOOKUP(B1,Sheet2!$C$1:$J$10,{1;5;6;7;8},FALSE)=I NDIRECT({"B1","F1","G1","H1","J1"})))

the interim results are the same, only the final result is =#VALUE!

Both formulas work identically whether array-entered or not.

What I am trying to do is to compare the two arrays in this way:

d=d=TRUE
d=e=FALSE
d=d=TRUE
d=d=TRUE
d=d=TRUE
=FALSE

Any ideas please?

Thanks,
KL