T. Valko you are correct. however 2 hours after original post I was able to
come up with the answer.
I thank all who replied, everyone was very helpfull. Thanks

"T. Valko" wrote:

Judging from the posters reply, I misunderstood what they wanted to do.

I thought they wanted to lookup a value in column E and return the
corresponding value from column A.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Meebers" wrote in message
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T. Not quite sure what the "index" part does, =MATCH(A1,E3:E1408,0) seems
to give me the same answer.


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Try this:

A1 = number to seach for

=INDEX(A3:A1408,MATCH(A1,E3:E1408,0))

I have a bad feeling about this one! <grin

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"v1rt8" wrote in message
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Column A contains #'s 1-1408 sequentially, Column E has #'s varying
80-33000
non-sequential. Now by using =if(e3:e1408,"27840") this finds this
number and
will show in that cell i am putting the formula in. however what i need
to
add to this formula is to find and put a reference to a number in the
corresponding column a.
i.e. with above formula "27840" is at E1219, what # is at A1219, and put
that value in the cell the fomula is in.
Thanks for your help!!!