The following will work:

=VLOOKUP(DATE(2009,3,15),A1:B5,2)

but you must re-arrange your data in ascending date order:

10/01/09 63%
17/02/09 51%
04/03/09 60%
21/04/09 62%
10/05/09 74%

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"WELSH_EXCEL" wrote:


Hi,

I am new to this forum so apologies if there are any ground rules I
have missed.

I have a spreadsheet with dates and percentage. I want to be able to
search the data to retrieve a percentage.

For example, if I want to know what result was valid on 16 March, the
answer would be 60.0% as the latest result up to this date was 60.0% on
4 March 09.

I would like to be able to put any date in a cell and in the next cell
the most recent result for that date will appear.

I hope this makes sense.

I have attached a sample screenshot of the spreadsheet which may make
more sense!

Thanks,

Nick


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