Excellent ! thanks for your propmt feedback

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

mavxob,

Assuming you will only have one match, with the 'lookup column' in J1:J3

=SUMPRODUCT((J1=A1:F1)*(J2=A2:F2)*(J3=A3:F3)*COLUM N(A1:F1))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"mavxob" wrote in message
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Hello,
I need to compare a column with a set of columns and get the column number
that match the lookup column. Can somebody help? thanks!

lookup column:
1
2
3

A B C D E F
2 4 5 6 1 5
5 2 3 2 2 4
1 2 5 1 3 6

expected result is 5 (col E)