II have a list that contains col. A with dates in it. Cols. B, C, D, E,
and so on contains either a number or "Free" or "Vac". I need to
extract the dates that have Vac. beside them and have them listed on
another sheet, per the following example. Is index/match the way to go
about this? Thanks for any help you can give.

Date Tom Dick Harry
1/2 8 8
Vac.
1/3 8 Vac. 8
1/4 Vac. 8 Free
1/5 Vac. Vac. 8




Summary on next sheet:

Tom Dick Harry
1/4 1/3 1/2
1/5 1/5

My formatting got a little skewed in the posting. The Vac. that shows
up in A3 was originally in D2 un der Harry.

I was hoping that someone would post a solution to this as it represents a
common theme that I've seen that I as yet have not been able to solve (using
a function. I'm sure it could be done with VBA.) The formula that I came up
with, which obviously doesn't work is:
=INDEX(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$5,MATCH("Vac.",OFFSET($A$1,1 ,MATCH(B$7,$B$1:$D$1,0),5,1),0))

This appears to give the correct info for the first instance of Vac., but
what I have problems with is coming up with a way to have the formula
basically start the search over from the previously found instance. In other
words, it will always return the first occurrence.

I don't know if there is a formulaic solution to this. If there is, I would
love to know what it is.
--
Kevin Vaughn


"smoore" wrote:

My formatting got a little skewed in the posting. The Vac. that shows
up in A3 was originally in D2 un der Harry.

Kevin, do a search in this group for "List date adjacent to
duplicates". Biff has come up with a solution for us that works
seamlessly. Good luck with yours.