thanks for your reply J

the answer to your question is YES
this formula works fine

the main issue to try to simplify this
it's because it has reached the nesting limit

altroght not critical, i was trying to include another IF to check another
data
right now, I can't do that

I'll try with the sumproduct
and get back with news


"JLatham" wrote:

First question: Does it consistently provide you with valid results?

If the answer to that is YES, then leave it alone.

I see some possibilities of reducing it to some degree MAYBE by using
SUMPRODUCT() to return values out of the Catalogo!$C$2:$F$1117 table. But
I'm not wading into this any deeper if your answer to my question was YES.
If the answer was YES, are there other issues such as taking too much time to
return a result?

"Alonso" wrote:

Here is a formula I'm using

=IF(B5=B4,IFERROR(HLOOKUP(VLOOKUP(B5,Referencias!$ BG$1:$BH$19,2,FALSE),Catalogo!$K$1:$Y$7,(IF(VLOOKU P(L5,Catalogo!$C$2:$F$1117,4,FALSE)<(VLOOKUP(L4,C atalogo!$C$2:$F$1117,4,FALSE)),5,(IF(L5<L4,IF(VLO OKUP(L5,Catalogo!$C$2:$F$1117,2,FALSE)(VLOOKUP(L4 ,Catalogo!$C$2:$F$1117,2,FALSE)),6,IF(VLOOKUP(L5,C atalogo!$C$2:$F$1117,2,FALSE)<(VLOOKUP(L4,Catalogo !$C$2:$F$1117,2,FALSE)),7,2)),IF(VLOOKUP(L5,Catalo go!$C$2:$F$1117,2,FALSE)(VLOOKUP(L4,Catalogo!$C$2 :$F$1117,2,FALSE)),4,IF(VLOOKUP(L5,Catalogo!$C$2:$ F$1117,2,FALSE)<(VLOOKUP(L4,Catalogo!$C$2:$F$1117, 2,FALSE)),3,0)))))),FALSE),0),0)

I know, I know
it's toooooo long

what I'm doing is comparing a machine with the last one used, then seen if
there is a swicth on the material that it needs. If true, this formula will
find how long it´s going to take finding the values in a table.

seems complicated because it search trought several tables


could anyone think on an easier way??