This will work for either text or numbers in col B that you seek. It will
give the item in col C.
Perhaps you did not Array enter. You must use ctrl+shift+enter instead of
just enter.
=INDIRECT("c"&MAX(IF(B1:B11=1,ROW(A1:A11))))
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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Nav" wrote in message
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I tried it for both, but it didn't seem to work for either, not sure if I
did
something wrong but I copied and pasted the below (with ctrl+shift+enter),
hence I was asking.

Thanks anyway.

"Don Guillett" wrote:

Did you try it?

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Nav" wrote in message
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Hi

Do you know if this work with text too, or just numbers, as some of the
data
are text.

Thank you.



"Don Guillett" wrote:

One way. This is an ARRAY formula which must be entered using
Ctrl+shift+enter
=INDIRECT("c"&MAX(IF(B1:B10="apple",ROW(A1:A10))))

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Nav" wrote in message
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Hello

I am trying to find out if there is a way or work around to use
vlookup
in
a
list where it finds the last occurance of an item and gives the
corresponding
value in relation to it.
Eg.

Pear 5
Apple 5
Orange 3
Plum 2
Apple 1

I need it to look at the last occurance of Apple and return the
value
1,
but
the problem is the vlookup finds the first occurance only and
returns
5.

Any ideas anyone.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Regards,
Nav