Hi Scott
Maybe this will be helpfull to you.
Select the cell with your formula then press and hold the Alt button while you
press the letters TUF . You should see the Evaluate function menu, press the
evaluate button
and see when its avaluating the match function, it converts all the logical
True/False to
1 and 0 .
Its very usefull when working out problems with formulas.
HTH
John
"Scott Smith" wrote in message
...

Great example - I was able to copy/modify the equation below and get it to
work. But I don't completely understand why it does work? Specifically, what
does the "1" do? MATCH(1,.

I've tried looking in the excel help and think I understand how to do a
Match function, but can't understand what the "1" is doing in the above/below
formula. I do know if I change the "1" to a "2" or anything else, it doesn't
work.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Scott Smith
"Mike H" wrote:

Dave,

You would use index - match for that. try this array formula (see below) In
practice i'd use cell references for Bob & 3

=INDEX(C1:C6,MATCH(1,(A1:A6="Bob")*(B1:B6=3),0))

This is an array formula which must be entered with CTRL+Shift+Enter and NOT
'just enter. If you do it correctly then Excel will put curly brackets around
'the formula{}. You can't type these yourself. If you Edit the ranges
'then you must re-enter as An array


Mike

"Dave" wrote:

I want to do a multi column lookup.
If I Match"

Bob with 2, I would get b
John with 2, I would get e

Will vlookup do this?

Col1 Col2 Col3
Bob 1 a
Bob 2 b
Bob 3 c
John 1 d
John 2 e
John 3 f