I agree with you about how the long worksheet names clutter up the
formula--especially when you're creating it.

I like to rename the long worksheet name to A. Then build the formula. Then
after it's perfect, I change the name of the worksheet.

This works fine until I get to a formula that will be longer than 1024
characters (measured in R1C1 reference style). But I'd have that problem anyway
with the long worksheet name.

(More for the OP, than you, Biff. <bg)

Biff wrote:

Hi!

You need an entirely different formula because you're
doing a multiple criteria lookup.

Man, I hate long sheet names! <g

It looks to me as though you want to lookup a clients name
in column A then lookup "active" in column N and return
the corresponding value in column B?

Something like this entered with the key combo of
CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER:

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(1,(A2:A11=A2)*(N2:N11="active"),0)) ,"",INDEX
(B2:B11,MATCH(1,(A2:A11=A2)*(N2:N11="active"),0)))

Just think how much longer that formula will get once you
put those long sheet names in! <g

Biff

-----Original Message-----
Received the following reply to earlier question (below).
Doesn't work. Can the above two statements be combined?
Ie. If one cell (in another worksheet) = "Active" then
lookup the values from the same worksheet.

I've been trying:
VLOOKUP(IF('Entry 1 - New Clients'!N2:N31="ACTIVE",'Entry
1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New Clients'!
A2:O20,2,FALSE))

Returns ugly errors. Maybe Excel doesn't like the
combination of both statements?


Yes, just re-use the formula in another cell with a
different column index

=VLOOKUP('Entry 1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New
Clients'!A2:O20,3,FALSE).

note the ,3 not ,2

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HTH

RP
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"Fiona" wrote in
message
...
Received advise previously on this (thanks). However, I
need to look up entries in another separate worksheet
and
it won't work. I'm using:

=VLOOKUP('Entry 1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New
Clients'!A2:O20,2,FALSE). It returns the persons name
(great) but I need to transfer across other details too.

Basically I'm summarising one worksheet onto a specified
format in another. In addition, I somehow want it to
only
show me those clients in 'Entry 1 - New Clients' if the
corresponding column (N) has the entry of "Active".

Is this possible??
Fiona


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Dave Peterson