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Hi!

I am wondering if there is any way we can vlookup a certain value in column
B but return value in Column A.

Thank you very much!

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Hello Ken,

You can't do that with VLOOKUP but you can use an INDEX/MATCH type formula,
e.g. to lookup C1 in column B and return the corresponding value from column A


=INDEX(A:A,MATCH(C1,B:B,0))

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I am wondering if there is any way we can vlookup a certain value in column
B but return value in Column A.

Thank you very much!

Ken

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Try this:

=INDEX(B1:B10,MATCH(lookup_value,A1:A10,0))

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I am wondering if there is any way we can vlookup a certain value in
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B but return value in Column A.

Thank you very much!

Ken



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Ooops!

I have the ranges backward!

=INDEX(B1:B10,MATCH(lookup_value,A1:A10,0))


Should be:

=INDEX(A1:A10,MATCH(lookup_value,B1:B10,0))


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Try this:

=INDEX(B1:B10,MATCH(lookup_value,A1:A10,0))

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Hi!

I am wondering if there is any way we can vlookup a certain value in
column
B but return value in Column A.

Thank you very much!

Ken





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Hello! Daddy Long Legs,

Thank you very much! It works well.

Ken

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