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Thank you for your assistance Vezerid. That solution does not help with this
particular problem but will certainly come in useful with a different dilema! My data is not set in structure. The number of rows containing data underneath each customer is direclty linked to how many products they buy. Some customer who only order 1 product will have a 5 row inclusion, whereas a customer ordering 6 products will have over 30 rows. The data is updated weekly and the structure can change by any customer ordering or not ordering a particular product. I need a formula that is dynamic and can 'search' for the product name following a given customer name. -- Matthew Cardiff "vezerid" wrote: I have not fully understood the structure of your data but you will most certainly need OFFSET. The expression: =INDEX(A:A,MATCH(custA,A:A,0)) will locate the cell that contains custA in column A:A. From there you can use OFFSET. For example, a customer's total is 4 rows further down and 4 columns further to the right. Thus, to retrieve the total of custA: =OFFSET(INDEX(A:A,MATCH(custA,A:A,0)),4,4) Does this help? Kostis Vezerides On Oct 17, 4:41 pm, Matthew Cardiff wrote: Hello there - I hope you can help. I am fast losing my hair on this one! I have a data sheet in Excel 2000 that I cannot alter or sort. As per my example below it contains numerous rows that contain a list of customers. Under each customer it contains product by product data that is then sorted by column into monthly sales and then totals. My problem is that I need a LOOKUP formula that is able to say "Lookup row with Customer A, THEN LOOKUP the next row that contains 'product B', THEN find the column in that row that gives TOTAL". Ambitous maybe. I have bought 3 Excel books that do not give the solution so I hope it is something that comes with experience not books! Each customer has the same list of products so I am struggling to locate a multiple formula that finds the NEXT "product A" after a particular customer. Example data AXIS / col a / col b / colc / col d / col z row 1 / customer a / blank / blank / blank / col z row 2 / product a / blank / blank / blank / col z row 3 / blank / blank / blank / blank / col z row 4 / blank / blank / jan / feb / col z row 5 / blank / sales / 100 / 200 / TOTAL row 23 / customer g / blank / blank / blank / col z row 24 / product a / blank / blank / blank / col z row 25 / blank / blank / blank / blank / col z row 26 / blank / blank / jan / feb / col z row 27 / blank / sales / 200 / 300 / TOTAL Summary: Is there a formula I can use that ignores the empty cells and can locate on a data sheet a particular customer name in column A, then the next particular product also in column A, then a particular attribute (sales or revenue) which is in column B, then return from that row the value in column Z (TOTAL). Thank you in advance for your help on this problem. I have seen how much advice has been given on the other topics and think this community is fantastic. -- Matthew Cardiff |
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