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Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name, and

in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country the

price
of a certain machine.



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Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell me how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many machines for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country name and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a function that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name, and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country the
price
of a certain machine.



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Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened when you
did?

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell me

how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many machines

for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country name

and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a function

that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in

another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm

getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with

Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name,

and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with

different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country

the
price
of a certain machine.





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It gave me an error which is #NUM though I checked it many times. The point
is that in the countries list, the country is repeated many times, and in the
machine model column, the machine is repeated many times, you need to create
a lookup function which will search for the machine and then when it founds
the machine search in another column for the country and then when both the
machine and the country matches your search criteria you need to get the
price from another column, which means basically that you have a two columns
lookup procedure.

Regards,

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened when you
did?

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell me

how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many machines

for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country name

and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a function

that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in

another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm

getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with

Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name,

and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with

different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country

the
price
of a certain machine.






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I completely understand how your data is laid out and the formula I gave you
should do what you want.

Show me the exact formula that you used. an example of the data would help
too.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
It gave me an error which is #NUM though I checked it many times. The

point
is that in the countries list, the country is repeated many times, and in

the
machine model column, the machine is repeated many times, you need to

create
a lookup function which will search for the machine and then when it

founds
the machine search in another column for the country and then when both

the
machine and the country matches your search criteria you need to get the
price from another column, which means basically that you have a two

columns
lookup procedure.

Regards,

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened when

you
did?

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell

me
how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many

machines
for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have

seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred

machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country

name
and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a

function
that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks

the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in

another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in

this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one

parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm

getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for,

confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with

Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country

name,
and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with

different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain

country
the
price
of a certain machine.










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I attached below the data, I am sorry it is not tidy enough but the first
column is the machine model, then you can see the country and then the price.

D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13456 IRAQ 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13457 JORDAN 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13458 LEBANON 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13459 SYRIA 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13460 EGYPT 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13461 LIBYA 126 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13462 MOROCCO 116 EUR
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13463 TUNISIA 134 EUR
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13464 ALGERIA 140.36 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13457 JORDAN 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13458 LEBANON 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13459 SYRIA 117 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13460 EGYPT 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13461 LIBYA 125 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13462 MOROCCO 110 EUR
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13463 TUNISIA 120 EUR
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13456 IRAQ 132.3 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13457 JORDAN 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13458 LEBANON 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13459 SYRIA 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13460 EGYPT 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13461 LIBYA 131.3 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13462 MOROCCO 115.5 EUR
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13464 ALGERIA 139.76 USD
D51256K-QS USE XJ VERSION 13456 IRAQ 183.8 USD

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I completely understand how your data is laid out and the formula I gave you
should do what you want.

Show me the exact formula that you used. an example of the data would help
too.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
It gave me an error which is #NUM though I checked it many times. The

point
is that in the countries list, the country is repeated many times, and in

the
machine model column, the machine is repeated many times, you need to

create
a lookup function which will search for the machine and then when it

founds
the machine search in another column for the country and then when both

the
machine and the country matches your search criteria you need to get the
price from another column, which means basically that you have a two

columns
lookup procedure.

Regards,

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened when

you
did?

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just tell

me
how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many

machines
for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have

seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred

machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the country

name
and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a

function
that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it checks

the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is in
another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in

this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one

parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm
getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for,

confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with
Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country

name,
and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with
different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain

country
the
price
of a certain machine.









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This works fine for me

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(B1:B100="LEBANON")*(A1:A10 0="D51238K-QS USE XJ
Version 13458"),0))

although I do notice that all the machines are unique

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I attached below the data, I am sorry it is not tidy enough but the first
column is the machine model, then you can see the country and then the

price.

D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13456 IRAQ 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13457 JORDAN 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13458 LEBANON 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13459 SYRIA 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13460 EGYPT 137 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13461 LIBYA 126 USD
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13462 MOROCCO 116 EUR
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13463 TUNISIA 134 EUR
D28886-QS Dewalt Die Grinder. 710W variable speed 13464 ALGERIA 140.36 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13457 JORDAN 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13458 LEBANON 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13459 SYRIA 117 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13460 EGYPT 122.9 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13461 LIBYA 125 USD
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13462 MOROCCO 110 EUR
D51238K-QS USE XJ Version 13463 TUNISIA 120 EUR
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13456 IRAQ 132.3 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13457 JORDAN 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13458 LEBANON 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13459 SYRIA 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13460 EGYPT 129 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13461 LIBYA 131.3 USD
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13462 MOROCCO 115.5 EUR
D51238K-XJ 18 GA 50mm BRAD NAILER KIT 13464 ALGERIA 139.76 USD
D51256K-QS USE XJ VERSION 13456 IRAQ 183.8 USD

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I completely understand how your data is laid out and the formula I gave

you
should do what you want.

Show me the exact formula that you used. an example of the data would

help
too.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
It gave me an error which is #NUM though I checked it many times. The

point
is that in the countries list, the country is repeated many times, and

in
the
machine model column, the machine is repeated many times, you need to

create
a lookup function which will search for the machine and then when it

founds
the machine search in another column for the country and then when

both
the
machine and the country matches your search criteria you need to get

the
price from another column, which means basically that you have a two

columns
lookup procedure.

Regards,

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Which is exactly what we gave you. Did you try it? what happened

when
you
did?

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
Guys,

It is not working, see I can pass you the files if possible just

tell
me
how
as I am new to this whole thing. The point is that I have many

machines
for
one country and I have many countries, to give you an idea, I have

seven
coutries and for each country and I have more than three hundred

machines
prices. The system given me a dupm showing in one column the

country
name
and
in another column the machine name and then the price. I need a

function
that
checks the country in one column and in the other columnn it

checks
the
machine, if both are OK then it should give me the price which is

in
another
column.

Regards,
Farah

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but

in
this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one

parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure

I'm
getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for,

confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:


=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with
Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing dir

ect)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the

country
name,
and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries

with
different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain

country
the
price
of a certain machine.











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Sorry to jump in here but I have a question that runs along the lines of the
original post of this thread but also has a different twist.

In each cell of Page 1, A1:100 I want to search Page 2, A1:50 for a specific
code. If that code is there then I want the amount in Column B of that same
row on Page 2 to be returned. I presume the first part is easily handled by
the first part of the INDEX formula below but how do I get it to return the
correct value?

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

Probably it's easier to understand a bit faster version...

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,IF(A1:A100="country",IF(B1: B100="machine",1)),0))

which still needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter.

Jim May wrote:
Bob,
I'm getting closer and closer to understanding this stuff, but in this
example there is one small piece I haven't got yet,

Your Match() has 3 elements:
1) the 1,
2) the combination of the ranges (Col A and ColB as one parameter)
3) the 0, which is an exact match)

So 1 (in this case) is the lookup value, hummmm.. not sure I'm getting the
meaning here - I take 1 to be the value I'm looking for, confused

Tks in Advance,
Jim


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INDEX(C1:C100,MATCH(1,(A1:A100="country")*(B1:B10 0="machine"),0))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Farah" wrote in message
...
I have a master price list were I have in column A the country name, and
in
column B the machine model number and in column C the price.
Obviously you can find the same machine for many countries with different
prices, I need a formula were I can extract for a certain country the
price
of a certain machine.



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