Please I need a vlookup formula that could look up a value from 2 different
worksheets. any help?

You need to give us more information. What are you trying to lookup?
Perhaps give us an example of your actual data in each sheet?

"Afolabi" wrote:

Please I need a vlookup formula that could look up a value from 2 different
worksheets. any help?

Thanks for the attempt, I actually want vlookup to look for a criteria in
the 1st worksheet, and if the criteria is not in the 1st worksheet, to look
for it in the 2nd worksheet. The criteria is present in either of the
2worksheets, and present result in a 3rd worksheet.

However, if the criteria is not in either, I want excel to return " "

Essentially you could put 2 separate lookups in one cell, something like
this, assumes that the criteria to use as the basis for both lookups is in
cell A1 of the sheet this is on (call it Sheet3)

=VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet1!TableRange,3,False) & " | " & VLOOKUP(A1,
Sheet2,Table2Range,7,False)

you'd get the results of the 2 lookups separated by a bar like
Mary | Lamb
presuming "Mary" and "Lamb" are results available in the tables on sheets 1
and 2. You could do other operations besides just concatenating strings,
like addition, multiplication, etc. The results of the VLOOKUP()s just get
treated like any other reference.

"Afolabi" wrote:

Please I need a vlookup formula that could look up a value from 2 different
worksheets. any help?

Thanks for the attempt, I actually need vlookup to look up some common
criteria from EITHER of 2 different worksheets and return specified values
(in identified columns) to a 3rd worksheet.

I actually have the 1st worksheet containing COST of a couple of assets, and
the 2nd worksheet containing DEPRECIATION on the same asset. I have the 3rd
worksheet called BUDGET where I want to pull the COST or DEPRECIATION (but on
different lines)on these assets to.

Any help?

I'm going to echo tim m's request for some examples. You can use VLOOKUP()
or other lookup functions as long as you know what you want to match and
where that match can be found elsewhere. But there has to be stuff in all
locations to be matched, and with lookups like VLOOKUP() and HLOOKUP(), the
tables to match in and draw information from have to be laid out in a
particular way. Other functions like INDEX() and MATCH() and LOOKUP() suffer
from fewer restrictions.

There is nothing to say that you cannot have a 'table' on sheet one like:

ITEM1 Name $Depreciation
ITEM2 Name $Depriciation

and having a table on another sheet like
ITEM1 Name $Cost
ITEM2 Name $Cost

and then on a third sheet, perhaps in cell A1 you have
ITEM1 Name

and way down on the sheet, maybe at O49, you can have a formula like
=VLOOKUP(A1,'Sheet1!A1:B2',2) and get the Depreciation from Sheet1
and right next to it in P49 you could have
=VLOOKUP(A1,'Sheet2!A1:B2',2) and get the cost

You could put both of those inside of an IF() formula to make a choice of
which lookup to use. Referring to the example just given, lets say that in
N49 you can put a D when you want Depreciation but if anything else is in it,
you want to see the cost, then you could have something like this in O49:
=IF(N49="D",VLOOKUP(A1,'Sheet1!A1:B2',2),VLOOKUP(A 1,'Sheet2!A1:B2',2))

There are many possibilities, but we have to have a clear idea of what we
have to work with here.

"Afolabi" wrote:


Thanks for the attempt, I actually need vlookup to look up some common
criteria from EITHER of 2 different worksheets and return specified values
(in identified columns) to a 3rd worksheet.

I actually have the 1st worksheet containing COST of a couple of assets, and
the 2nd worksheet containing DEPRECIATION on the same asset. I have the 3rd
worksheet called BUDGET where I want to pull the COST or DEPRECIATION (but on
different lines)on these assets to.

Any help?

I'll assume that you're attempting to lookup a value in a datalist on
Sheet1,
And if it's not found there, then lookup the *same* value in a datalist on
Sheet2,
and where this lookup formula and the value to lookup could be situated in
Sheet3.

Datalists on Sheets 1 & 2 have similar location references.
A1 to D50,
The only difference is the column index of the value to return.
Column D from Sheet1, and Column C from Sheet2.

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(E1,Sheet1!A1:A50,0)),IF(ISNA(MATCH( E1,Sheet2!A1:A50,0)),"No
Match",VLOOKUP(E1,Sheet2!A1:D50,3,0)),VLOOKUP(E1,S heet1!A1:D50,4,0))

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HTH,

RD

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"Afolabi" wrote in message
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Thanks for the attempt, I actually need vlookup to look up some common
criteria from EITHER of 2 different worksheets and return specified values
(in identified columns) to a 3rd worksheet.

I actually have the 1st worksheet containing COST of a couple of assets,
and
the 2nd worksheet containing DEPRECIATION on the same asset. I have the
3rd
worksheet called BUDGET where I want to pull the COST or DEPRECIATION (but
on
different lines)on these assets to.

Any help?

Yes, you got my thought, exactly what I want. the challenge now is that excel
is not matching my search criteria, I ve checked spelling, format etc but
excel returns "no match" on all the destination cells.

"Ragdyer" wrote:

I'll assume that you're attempting to lookup a value in a datalist on
Sheet1,
And if it's not found there, then lookup the *same* value in a datalist on
Sheet2,
and where this lookup formula and the value to lookup could be situated in
Sheet3.

Datalists on Sheets 1 & 2 have similar location references.
A1 to D50,
The only difference is the column index of the value to return.
Column D from Sheet1, and Column C from Sheet2.

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(E1,Sheet1!A1:A50,0)),IF(ISNA(MATCH( E1,Sheet2!A1:A50,0)),"No
Match",VLOOKUP(E1,Sheet2!A1:D50,3,0)),VLOOKUP(E1,S heet1!A1:D50,4,0))

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HTH,

RD

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"Afolabi" wrote in message
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Thanks for the attempt, I actually need vlookup to look up some common
criteria from EITHER of 2 different worksheets and return specified values
(in identified columns) to a 3rd worksheet.

I actually have the 1st worksheet containing COST of a couple of assets,
and
the 2nd worksheet containing DEPRECIATION on the same asset. I have the
3rd
worksheet called BUDGET where I want to pull the COST or DEPRECIATION (but
on
different lines)on these assets to.

Any help?

To check the veracity of your formula, manually key in the value to lookup
into E1, and then manually key in the *exact* same value into one of the
datalists.
This should force a proper return if the formula is correct.
If it does, then you know that your data is suspect.
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Regards,

RD
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"Afolabi" wrote in message
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Yes, you got my thought, exactly what I want. the challenge now is that
excel
is not matching my search criteria, I ve checked spelling, format etc but
excel returns "no match" on all the destination cells.

"Ragdyer" wrote:

I'll assume that you're attempting to lookup a value in a datalist on
Sheet1,
And if it's not found there, then lookup the *same* value in a datalist on
Sheet2,
and where this lookup formula and the value to lookup could be situated in
Sheet3.

Datalists on Sheets 1 & 2 have similar location references.
A1 to D50,
The only difference is the column index of the value to return.
Column D from Sheet1, and Column C from Sheet2.

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(E1,Sheet1!A1:A50,0)),IF(ISNA(MATCH( E1,Sheet2!A1:A50,0)),"No
Match",VLOOKUP(E1,Sheet2!A1:D50,3,0)),VLOOKUP(E1,S heet1!A1:D50,4,0))

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HTH,

RD

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"Afolabi" wrote in message
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Thanks for the attempt, I actually need vlookup to look up some common
criteria from EITHER of 2 different worksheets and return specified
values
(in identified columns) to a 3rd worksheet.

I actually have the 1st worksheet containing COST of a couple of assets,
and
the 2nd worksheet containing DEPRECIATION on the same asset. I have the
3rd
worksheet called BUDGET where I want to pull the COST or DEPRECIATION
(but
on
different lines)on these assets to.

Any help?