I assume you have tried vlookup and found that looking up the value from
the first column is inadequate.

There is another lookup function which you can try, and that is the
DGET function.

DGET(database,field,criteria)

Database is the range of cells that makes up the list or database. A
database is a list of related data in which rows of related information
are records, and columns of data are fields. The first row of the list
contains labels for each column.

Field indicates which column is used in the function. Enter the
column label enclosed between double quotation marks, such as "Age" or
"Yield," or a number (without quotation marks) that represents the
position of the column within the list: 1 for the first column, 2 for
the second column, and so on.

Criteria is the range of cells that contains the conditions that you
specify. You can use any range for the criteria argument, as long as it
includes at least one column label and at least one cell below the
column label in which you specify a condition for the column.


So you define the database range to lookup, the field which you want to
lookup, and the criteria which you can specify (eg. header on top,
lookup value below). you can customise the value you want to lookup,
refer to help for more options.


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