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I am trying to get a function to look backwards through a list to match two
text strings, then return a value that corresponded to the last entry. Example

A B
Apples 32 35
Pears 21 20
Beans 55 99
Apples 35 19 for column a4 i want the function to return 35 and
the user
enters whatever they need in B say 19
Oranges 21 25
Apples 19 34 19 returned by the function from cell B4

There may be random number of spaces between the xth apple entry and the x+1
entry hence why i need a match and index type function. I only need the
function to work for apples, no other text entries need searched.

Does anyone know how I could get this to fly?

Thanks
LD
 
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