this worked great, thank you so much!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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If you want exact matches for just two columns (and return a value from a
third), you could use:

=index(othersheet!$c$1:$c$100,
match(1,(a2=othersheet!$a$1:$a$100)
*(b2=othersheet!$b$1:$b$100),0))

(all in one cell)

This is an array formula. Hit ctrl-shift-enter instead of enter. If you do it
correctly, excel will wrap curly brackets {} around your formula. (don't type
them yourself.)

Adjust the range to match--but you can only use the whole column in xl2007.

This returns the value in othersheet column C when column A and B (of
othersheet) match A2 and B2 of the sheet with the formula.

And you can add more conditions by just adding more stuff to that product
portion of the formula:

=index(othersheet!$d$1:$d$100,
match(1,(a2=othersheet!$a$1:$a$100)
*(b2=othersheet!$b$1:$b$100)
*(c2=othersheet!$c$1:$c$100),0))

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If there is only one match and you're bringing back a number (or 0 if there is
no match for all the criteria), you can use:

=sumproduct(--(othersheet!a1:a10=a1),
--(othersheet!b1:b10=b1),
(othersheet!c1:c10))

Adjust the ranges to match--but you can't use whole columns (except in xl2007).

=sumproduct() likes to work with numbers. The -- stuff changes trues and falses
to 1's and 0's.

Bob Phillips explains =sumproduct() in much more detail he
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

And J.E. McGimpsey has some notes at:
http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/formulae/doubleneg.html

Vandmic wrote:

i'm new to excel & what i'm trying to do is; lookup two cells (A2:B2) in
sheet1 & find the matching data in sheet2 (A2:B20) and return the data in
column "D"

Sheet 1
answer
A B C D
103539 1000800796 2 37500042
103539 1000800797 3
103539 1002055700 4
103539 1000800793 5
103539 1001331388 6
103539 1000926809 7
103539 1002521267 1
103539 1000762584 1
103539 1000762551 2
103539 1000992028 3
103539 1000401463 1

Sheet 2
A B C
103539 1001904703 42500042
103539 1000800796 37500042
103539 1000800797 57500042
103539 1002055700 77500042
103539 1000800793 27500042
103539 1001331388 67500042
103539 1000926809 87500042

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Dave Peterson