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Text retrieve in a list-like WS
Hello all I want to extract data to a cell from a ws bthat looks like that: NEWYORK 99999 USA LA 88888 USA BERLIN 77777 EUROPE I have 220 lines like this which is my "database". I want to be able to punch-in "99999" and that in the next 2 cells it will give me "NEWYORK" "USA" Don't know VBA. two left hands and sounds like chinese to me :( any help? -- yadaaa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yadaaa's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35130 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=548862 |
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Text retrieve in a list-like WS
Hi
With your data in A1:C220 and the value 99999 that you want to lookup being entered in F1, enter the following formula in G1 =INDEX($A$1:$C$220,MATCH($F1,$B$1:$B$220,0),1) and in cell H1 enter =INDEX($A$1:$C$220,MATCH($F1,$B$1:$B$220,0),3) -- Regards Roger Govier "yadaaa" wrote in message ... Hello all I want to extract data to a cell from a ws bthat looks like that: NEWYORK 99999 USA LA 88888 USA BERLIN 77777 EUROPE I have 220 lines like this which is my "database". I want to be able to punch-in "99999" and that in the next 2 cells it will give me "NEWYORK" "USA" Don't know VBA. two left hands and sounds like chinese to me :( any help? -- yadaaa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yadaaa's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35130 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=548862 |
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Thank you very much :) -- yadaaa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yadaaa's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35130 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=548862 |
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