excuse me Biff and Jmb....Hi jb...pls reply so we learn for the correct
formula on a logical function...since no one had replied for a
lookup/reference formulation....it seems "IF's" is more helpful in this case
- money matters....waiting for your reply...

"Biff" wrote:

Hope you are not offended I posted since the OP requested your help.

Absolutely not. I've done the same thing.

Biff

"JMB" wrote in message
...
I realized that after I'd already posted. I hoped nobody would notice.

Hope you are not offended I posted since the OP requested your help. I
wasn't going to, but then I figured it was not certain you would see the
post.


"Biff" wrote:

=MIN(IF(B1:C3=A10,A1:A3,""))

The "" are superfluous.

Biff

"JMB" wrote in message
...
If you don't mind a suggestion from someone else - assuming check
numbers
are
in A1:A3, invoice numbers are in B1:C3, the invoice number you're
looking
for
is in A10 (change cell references as needed), you could try

=MIN(IF(B1:C3=A10,A1:A3,""))

array entered with Cntrl+Shift+Enter (or you'll get #VALUE!). Also,
assumes
the invoice was paid w/only one check.



"jb" wrote:

Looked at some of you responses regarding excel and you seem very
knowledgeable. Have a question involving a lookup.

Scenario

Two Sheets



Sheet one

Has an invoice number on it.



Sheet two

Has a check number that may or may not have paid multiple invoices.

It is listed this way.



Column 1 column 2 column 3
et all

Check number invoice number invoice number




What I would like to do is use a lookup on sheet one that checks sheet
two
for the invoice number (separate invoice numbers are located in
columns B
through whatever) and returns what check it was paid on (checks
located
in
the left most column).







Can't figure out an easy way to do it and was wondering if you had any
ideas.





Regards,
jb