taking your example

in E2 you have CV3 and you need 001 in F2
in E3 you have CV3 and you need 002 in F3

in F2 put this formula ( use Ctrl + Shift + Enter )

=IF(ISERROR(INDEX($A$1:$A$10,SMALL(IF($E2=$C$1:$C$ 4,ROW($A$1:$A$4)),ROW
(1:1)),0)),"",INDEX($A$1:$A$10,SMALL(IF($E2=$C$1:$ C$4,ROW($A$1:$A
$4)),ROW(1:1)),0))



On Nov 16, 1:21*am, Bill wrote:
That works. *What about mutiple occurrences?

"muddan madhu" wrote:
try this

put this formula in F2

=INDEX(A2:A8,MATCH(E2,C2:C8,0),0)

On Nov 16, 12:56 am, Bill wrote:
I have the following 3 columns of data
000 * * 0.198407405 * * PO3
001 * * 0.207502916 * * CV3
002 * * 0.984589896 * * CV3
003 * * 0.715903627 * * FB2
It goes a lot further. *I want to create a formula for another column that
will find a data point out of column 3, but enter the corresponding data from
column 1. *ie: *find FB2 in Column 3, but 003 is outcome.