Hi all, i need help. I am working with two different list of assets, i
am trying to populate one of the lists with data from the other list.
i have tried using vlookup, but the problem i have is that i am using
the description of the assets as the search criteria, but i have
situations where i have the same description for more than one asset,
so when using the vlookup function, it returns the same value for the
first of the occurnece for all the values with the same description,
is there anything else i can do.

Thanks for your anticipated help.

On Jul 14, 3:15*am, Ayobami Adeloye wrote:
Hi all, i need help. I am working with two different list of assets, i
am trying to populate one of the lists with data from the other list.
i have tried using vlookup, but the problem i have is that i am using
the description of the assets as the search criteria, but i have
situations where i have the same description for more than one asset,
so when using the vlookup function, it returns the same value for the
first of the occurnece for all the values with the same description,
is there anything else i can do.

Thanks for your anticipated help.

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You need to look at the SMALL function. If you use this properly (it's
explained ok in the help files), you can use it to show all the assets
with the same name. The line below is from a spreadsheet that I use to
track inductions. when I look for a name, there are often many people
with the same surname. The formula below finds the first instance -
ROW(1,1) - then the next row - ROW(2,2) etc. You will have to tailor
the formula to what you need, and copy it down enough cells so that
you catch all instances.

OM

=IF(ISERROR(INDEX(AllData,SMALL(IF(Surname=SName,R OW(Surname)-1),ROW(2:2)),2)),"",INDEX(AllData,SMALL(IF(Surname =SName,ROW(Surname)-1),ROW(2:2)),2))
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:15:28 -0700 (PDT), Ayobami Adeloye
wrote:

Hi all, i need help. I am working with two different list of assets, i
am trying to populate one of the lists with data from the other list.
i have tried using vlookup, but the problem i have is that i am using
the description of the assets as the search criteria, but i have
situations where i have the same description for more than one asset,
so when using the vlookup function, it returns the same value for the
first of the occurnece for all the values with the same description,
is there anything else i can do.

Thanks for your anticipated help.