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return cell reference from any column
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I am searching for a function to return the cell reference for a lookup value that can be found in any row and any column in the table. Say the table has 10 columns and 250 rows and I am looking for a value that I write in a specified cell. I would like Excel to write the cell reference to know where in the table I find this value. I have found a function =CELL("address";INDEX(A:A;MATCH(K1;A:A;0))) but this can be used in only one column. Now I have several columns and changing this area to multicolumn returns #n/a (or #ref) because I believe Match does not understand but one column. can you, please, help me? Pirjo |
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one way to do this is to use a user defined function
a very brute force one I have used is Function advl(val) advl = Cells.Find(What:=val, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _ xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _ MatchCase:=False , SearchFormat:=False).Address End Function if the value can be outside the table, you will have to expand the function to goto find again when the address isn't suitable. "Pirjo" wrote: Hello I am searching for a function to return the cell reference for a lookup value that can be found in any row and any column in the table. Say the table has 10 columns and 250 rows and I am looking for a value that I write in a specified cell. I would like Excel to write the cell reference to know where in the table I find this value. I have found a function =CELL("address";INDEX(A:A;MATCH(K1;A:A;0))) but this can be used in only one column. Now I have several columns and changing this area to multicolumn returns #n/a (or #ref) because I believe Match does not understand but one column. can you, please, help me? Pirjo |
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Hi
Thanks a lot! this works like charm :) "bj" wrote: one way to do this is to use a user defined function a very brute force one I have used is Function advl(val) advl = Cells.Find(What:=val, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _ xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _ MatchCase:=False , SearchFormat:=False).Address End Function if the value can be outside the table, you will have to expand the function to goto find again when the address isn't suitable. "Pirjo" wrote: Hello I am searching for a function to return the cell reference for a lookup value that can be found in any row and any column in the table. Say the table has 10 columns and 250 rows and I am looking for a value that I write in a specified cell. I would like Excel to write the cell reference to know where in the table I find this value. I have found a function =CELL("address";INDEX(A:A;MATCH(K1;A:A;0))) but this can be used in only one column. Now I have several columns and changing this area to multicolumn returns #n/a (or #ref) because I believe Match does not understand but one column. can you, please, help me? Pirjo |
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