In your source sheet you could insert a new column D, and in D3 you
can put this formula:

=A3&B3&C3

and copy this down by double-clicking the fill handle (the small black
square in the bottom right corner of the cursor).

Then in your summary sheet you could use columns A, B and C to record
the city, state and job code, and in D3 you could have this formula:

=VLOOKUP($A3&$B3&$C3,Source!$D:$H,COLUMN(B3),0)

Then copy this across to G3.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Mar 2, 3:52*pm, se7098 wrote:
I need to populate a master spreadsheet from a source file of raw data.

what i am doing is pulling numbers from a database and exporting them into
an excel spreadsheet which is my raw data/source file. *the database is
broken down by the folders in which the candidates sit...inbox; scheduled for
interview;selected...etc. Source info is set up as in the table below:

* * * * * * * * * Inbox *Intv Sel Hird
city st *jc
atl *ga 123 * *55 * * 30 * 17 * 10

from that i am populating a summary sheet for my clients which are assigned
multiple locations (cities) and titles (job codes).

So i have a client that is assigned atlanta, ga for customer assistants
which is job code 123...and i need to retrieve the number of candidates in
each folder/category in a snapshot/summary and i want to do this for each
location/client/job code

i need a formula to go out into the raw data to find the city...then look
for a specified job code then populate the cell below each category (inbox,
intv, sel, hired) with the corresponding number of candidates in each of
these categories. so that i can summarize each of my clients locations.

i have tried ifs & ands & also looked at indirect & offset but am having no
luck...can anyone help me? *thanks!