These formulas all work for me. The usual reason for such formulas
apparently not working is different types for lookup value and table data.
In the example below, the 200 in cell F1 and the 200 in cell A3 must both be
numbers or both text. If one is a number and the other text you will get
#N/A. You can test for this with these formulas (in spare cells somewhere):
=ISTEXT(F1)
=ISTEXT(A3)

"Mervyn Edwards" wrote in message
...
Hi,

This example is exactly how I was trying to get v and hlookup to work, but
I
always receive an error saying "value not available". I have looked at
what
can cause the error but none of the suggested reasons exist on the
spreadsheet. Weird!

Thanks
Mervyn

"Teethless mama" wrote:

Criterias
F1: holds 200
F2: holds FL310

Pick any one of these formulas will do the trick

=INDEX(A1:D4,MATCH(F1,A1:A4,0),MATCH(F2,A1:D1,0))
or
=HLOOKUP(F2,A1:D4,MATCH(F1,A1:A4,0),0)
or
=VLOOKUP(F1,A1:D4,MATCH(F2,A1:D1,0),0)


"Mervyn Edwards" wrote:

I am trying to pull the information from the cell at the intersection
between
a particular row and column. The identifier for which row and column
needs to
come from an input value. I have tried various incarnations of vlookup
and
hlookup with match, but cannot get a result.

Example: Input Values would be 200 and FL310 to establish an answer of
177

FL300 FL310 FL320
100 180 178 176
200 179 177 175
300 175 174 172

Any help would be much appreciated.