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Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened when you
did?

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"Farah" wrote in message
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Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell me

how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many machines

for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country name

and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a function

that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in

another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm

getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with

Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

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Bob Phillips

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"Farah" wrote in message
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I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name,

and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with

different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country

the
price
of a certain machine.