Can I compose a VLOOKUP formula that looks left instead of right. I have
data in C10 and want to go left 4 cells and get that data. Can this be
done. I don't think so but I'm no expert in VLOOKUP.

VLOOKUP works from left to right.

I have data in C10 and want to go left 4 cells and get that data

4 cells left of C10? There aren't 4 columns to the left of column C.

You can use something like this:

=INDEX(range,MATCH(lookup_value,lookup_array,0))


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Jerry" wrote in message
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Can I compose a VLOOKUP formula that looks left instead of right. I have
data in C10 and want to go left 4 cells and get that data. Can this be
done. I don't think so but I'm no expert in VLOOKUP.

If the functions in the freely downloadable file at
http://home.pacbell.net/beban are available to your workbook, you might
want to consider the VLookupLeft function.

Alan Beban

Jerry wrote:
Can I compose a VLOOKUP formula that looks left instead of right. I have
data in C10 and want to go left 4 cells and get that data. Can this be
done. I don't think so but I'm no expert in VLOOKUP.