Hi!

You need an entirely different formula because you're
doing a multiple criteria lookup.

Man, I hate long sheet names! <g

It looks to me as though you want to lookup a clients name
in column A then lookup "active" in column N and return
the corresponding value in column B?

Something like this entered with the key combo of
CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER:

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(1,(A2:A11=A2)*(N2:N11="active"),0)) ,"",INDEX
(B2:B11,MATCH(1,(A2:A11=A2)*(N2:N11="active"),0)))

Just think how much longer that formula will get once you
put those long sheet names in! <g

Biff

-----Original Message-----
Received the following reply to earlier question (below).
Doesn't work. Can the above two statements be combined?
Ie. If one cell (in another worksheet) = "Active" then
lookup the values from the same worksheet.

I've been trying:
VLOOKUP(IF('Entry 1 - New Clients'!N2:N31="ACTIVE",'Entry
1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New Clients'!
A2:O20,2,FALSE))

Returns ugly errors. Maybe Excel doesn't like the
combination of both statements?


Yes, just re-use the formula in another cell with a
different column index

=VLOOKUP('Entry 1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New
Clients'!A2:O20,3,FALSE).

note the ,3 not ,2

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HTH

RP
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"Fiona" wrote in
message
...
Received advise previously on this (thanks). However, I
need to look up entries in another separate worksheet
and
it won't work. I'm using:

=VLOOKUP('Entry 1 - New Clients'!A2,'Entry 1 - New
Clients'!A2:O20,2,FALSE). It returns the persons name
(great) but I need to transfer across other details too.

Basically I'm summarising one worksheet onto a specified
format in another. In addition, I somehow want it to
only
show me those clients in 'Entry 1 - New Clients' if the
corresponding column (N) has the entry of "Active".

Is this possible??
Fiona


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