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Am I thick? lookup from table
I have a simple table with height measurements as the headers and a value measurement down the left column. At the intersection of the two figures is the body fat % from the height and value measurement (waist less neck size). All I want to do is have two entry cells, one for height the other for value and get it to look up the fat% from the chart. I tried the various look up types but they seem to want you to run a wizard each time or know which column the answer is in. I really want to make this simple for others to use and not display the table. So really all that the enterer should do is enter height and value in seperate cells and let excel find the answer. I thought this would be easy (I regularly use vlookup for 2 column tables). Any help is gratefully received. Steven -- GDXAHD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GDXAHD's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35280 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=550643 |
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Am I thick? lookup from table
I think you want to use =index(match(),match())
Take a look at Debra Dalgleish's instructions: http://contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html especially: http://contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html#IndexMatch2 GDXAHD wrote: I have a simple table with height measurements as the headers and a value measurement down the left column. At the intersection of the two figures is the body fat % from the height and value measurement (waist less neck size). All I want to do is have two entry cells, one for height the other for value and get it to look up the fat% from the chart. I tried the various look up types but they seem to want you to run a wizard each time or know which column the answer is in. I really want to make this simple for others to use and not display the table. So really all that the enterer should do is enter height and value in seperate cells and let excel find the answer. I thought this would be easy (I regularly use vlookup for 2 column tables). Any help is gratefully received. Steven -- GDXAHD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GDXAHD's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35280 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=550643 -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks to you both. This seems to be what I need. I will know soon when I try it out. I'll be back if I struggle! Thanks again. -- GDXAHD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GDXAHD's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35280 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=550643 |
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If the forms of your headers and value measurements are acceptable as
names, it is quite simple. On an Excel spreadsheet the space is the intersection operator Hence, highlight your table, click on Insert|Name|Create and check Top row, Left column. Then =header1 valuemeasurement3 will return the fat percentage for the corresponding header and value measurement. And if the header name and value measurement name are to be entered into Cells M1 and N1 =INDIRECT(M1) INDIRECT(N1)will return the corresponding fat percentage. Alan Beban GDXAHD wrote: I have a simple table with height measurements as the headers and a value measurement down the left column. At the intersection of the two figures is the body fat % from the height and value measurement (waist less neck size). All I want to do is have two entry cells, one for height the other for value and get it to look up the fat% from the chart. I tried the various look up types but they seem to want you to run a wizard each time or know which column the answer is in. I really want to make this simple for others to use and not display the table. So really all that the enterer should do is enter height and value in seperate cells and let excel find the answer. I thought this would be easy (I regularly use vlookup for 2 column tables). Any help is gratefully received. Steven |
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