Find last match in vllokup
 

In Excel2000, I have the following data:


Tom 100
Pete 200
Joe 300
Tom 500


I want to have a Vlookup that finds "Tom' and gives me 500 NOT 100. I
know vlookups usually finds the first instance of a match but I want
the last ( there could be 5 or 4 or 3 records of Tom). Can this be
done?


Thanks

One way:


Take a look at the answer to your previous, nearly identical question...

Use CountIf() to determine the number of the instance to return.

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"snax500" wrote:

In Excel2000, I have the following data:


Tom 100
Pete 200
Joe 300
Tom 500


I want to have a Vlookup that finds "Tom' and gives me 500 NOT 100. I
know vlookups usually finds the first instance of a match but I want
the last ( there could be 5 or 4 or 3 records of Tom). Can this be
done?


Thanks