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ERose

What is the purpose of a lookup function?
 
Excel 2000

Tom Ogilvy

What is the purpose of a lookup function?
 
if you have a table of values such as
Column A Column B
A 3
B 4
C 8
D 32
E 10


And I wanted to see what number corresponded to D for example. I could use

=Lookup("D",A1:A6,B1:B6)

this would return 32

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"ERose" wrote in message
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Excel 2000




Yorkie118

What is the purpose of a lookup function?
 
Suppose you have a list of motor parts listed in column A, and the retail
price of each part in column B. You can now ask excel to look for a part in
the first column, and show you the corresponding price from the second.

"ERose" wrote:

Excel 2000



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