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Default Finding the last value entered for an entity

Hi all!

I was wondering if I can get some Excel help for a problem I have
encountered:

Below is a list of the field names corresponding to the columns in
Excel (separated by comma's):

LastName, FirstName, RepID, Sales, UpdateNumber

I input information from various sources into this spreadsheet. I have
another spreadsheet set up which uses the data from above to do some
calculations. To make my request simple, I'll provide an example.

Let's say I have the following 10 entries in the database:

LastName, FirstName, RepID, Sales, UpdateNumber
Miller, John, CA23, 52000, 1
Talbot, Tom, NJ12, 7020, 1
Kowal, Jen, AZ13, 10900, 1
Miller, John, CA23, 64000, 2
Lamb, Jeff, NJ29, 493440, 1
Miller, John CA23, 89000, 3
Allen, Kevin, PA22, 90800, 1
Lamb, Jeff, NJ29, 3232444, 2
Kowal, Jen, AZ13, 15000, 2
Talbot, Tom, NJ12, 50000, 2

Any time there's an update for a particular salesperson, the
UpdateNumbers adds 1 to the last UpdateNumber. So, if you look above,
John Miller's UpdateNumber has reached 3 - for 3 updates. This would
be the entry I'm interested in. So, on my other spreadsheet which i
use to perform calculations, I would like to pull up the entry from
above list for John to reflect the latest sale (89,000). How would i
achieve that? Is there a way to figure out the max of the UpdateNumber
based on code and then doing a Vlookup against that? What I do is find
the latest sales figure from the above table? It is not necessarily a
larger figure or else I could do a MAX function alongwith a vlookup or
something. Any or all help with be greatly appreciated!

Thanks much!

 
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