I have been trying to use the RIGHT function in a VLOOKUP and can not
get it to work. For example if my VLOOKUP is

=VLOOKUP(A16,A8:E8,5,FALSE)

In the range I am looking at I only want to look at the right 2
characters in column A.

If cell A8 is M200612 I only want to look for the 12.

Does anyone know how to do this???

Thanks.


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Try it as you said it

=VLOOKUP(RIGHT(A16,2),A8:E8,5,FALSE)


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I have been trying to use the RIGHT function in a VLOOKUP and can not
get it to work. For example if my VLOOKUP is

=VLOOKUP(A16,A8:E8,5,FALSE)

In the range I am looking at I only want to look at the right 2
characters in column A.

If cell A8 is M200612 I only want to look for the 12.

Does anyone know how to do this???

Thanks.


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I actually need to apply the RIGHT,2 condition to the range I am look
at, not the value I am looking for.

Thanks.


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I'm confused why you're only looking at one row--but maybe that's a typo in the
newsgroup post.

=INDEX(E8:E15,MATCH(A16,RIGHT(A8:A15,2),0))

This is an array formula. Hit ctrl-shift-enter instead of enter. If you do it
correctly, excel will wrap curly brackets {} around your formula. (don't type
them yourself.)

Adjust the range to match--but you can't use the whole column.



rudy wrote:

I have been trying to use the RIGHT function in a VLOOKUP and can not
get it to work. For example if my VLOOKUP is

=VLOOKUP(A16,A8:E8,5,FALSE)

In the range I am looking at I only want to look at the right 2
characters in column A.

If cell A8 is M200612 I only want to look for the 12.

Does anyone know how to do this???

Thanks.

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Sorry, it's a number, so try

=VLOOKUP(--RIGHT(A16,2),A16,2),A8:E8,5,FALSE)

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I actually need to apply the RIGHT,2 condition to the range I am look
at, not the value I am looking for.

Thanks.


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