I worked on some projects, but cannot figure out why this kind of vlookup function does not work. I even tried a very simple example, and it didn't work.
From https://support.office.com/en-us/article/VLOOKUP-function-0bbc8083-26fe-4963-8ab8-93a18ad188a1 "The value you want to look up must be in the first column of the range of cells you specify in table-array".
Your example is trying to search the second column. Swap column 1 and 2 and the lookup should work.
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I want to check where - in a specified range - does a value exist in a Google Sheet. If I already know the column, I would use the "Match()" function to get the row number. But let's say if I still want to get a number for the column, and use the Match() function again, I wasn't able to.
In the match function, I wanted to use a dynamic value like "Sheet1!E3" to specify the row I'm searching for, but it didn't work.
Here is the sheet to illustrate the idea.
Why is that? In a case like this, if I want to use the dynamic value twice - Sheet1!E3:Sheet1!E3, what should I do instead?
Thanks!
See the test sheet linked
delete E4. use in E3:
=INDEX(FLATTEN(SPLIT(TEXTJOIN(, 1, IF(E2=A2:B17, ROW(A2:B17)&""&COLUMN(A2:B17), )), "")))
I have a sheet with a list of company names in column A - some of these company names are present within sheets of different users, who have a tickbox within a column beside these companies.
I want to have a column in my sheet which would tell me whether this company is ticked within one of the user's sheets and if so, put the user's name in the cell next to it. If not, it can remain blank. The likelihood at this time that the tickbox is TRUE for the same company in two different sheets is negligible.
In the sample sheet below, I've used the following formula in cell B2:
=ifs(vlookup(A2,Sheet2!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Sam",vlookup(A2,Sheet3!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Nick",vlookup(A2,Sheet4!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Mike")
It works for the first two conditions, but then it cannot seem to work with the third logical pair. Note that the sample sheet below uses the vlookup across tabs, the actual sheet will be using importrange, but I don't think it should make a difference.
What could be wrong?
Sample sheet here
A More General Problem
To make this more general so others find it useful (which is the whole point of StackOverflow), the general problem can be rephrased as
"How do I search for a value in lists in multiple sheets, and return a
result if there is at least one match?"
Generally, when using VLOOKUP(), QUERY(), or other matching functions, you have to account for any errors through non-matches. Those "move" outwards into the outer functions and can eventually be the reported result, unless explicitly handled. Sometimes, this is less obvious when you sometimes get answers but that's because the outer functions have ignored or not evaluated the matching function.
Therefore, always consider what happens if the matching function returns a N/A and explicitly handle it.
Your Example
In your case, IFS() is simply raising an error whenever VLOOKUP() does not match. However, since IFS() returns the first condition that matches, from left to right in the formula, it doesn't always get around to evaluating one of the non-matching VLOOKUP()s which is why you see it works sometimes.
So, you should explicitly handle the errors with e.g. IFERROR()
My approach was to avoid lookup functions, and just filter the list by those that had filled checkboxes, and then count the occurrence of interest ("Company 1", "Company 2", ...) using COUNTIF(). If the counted total is 1, we have a match, so grab that entry as an element in an array. Otherwise, leave an empty value.
At this point, you could drop the empty elements, and take the first non-empty element (or return a blank), but I opted to list out all of the names.
To get rid of the blanks, I use QUERY() and then JOIN() to make a list of each name. In the case, where nothing matched, and my array was empty, I simply wrap everything in one IFERROR().
=IFERROR(JOIN(", ",QUERY(TRANSPOSE({IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Sam!A:A,Sam!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Sam",""),IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Nick!A:A,Nick!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Nick",""),IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Mike!A:A,Mike!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Mike","")}),"SELECT Col1 WHERE Col1 IS NOT NULL",0)),"")
I found it convenient for your example to rename "Sheet2" as "Sam", "Sheet3" as "Nick", "Sheet4" as "Mike", which is what I think was your original meaning.
The formula can be easily modified to show just the first matching result.
use:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFNA(VLOOKUP(A2:A, QUERY({
QUERY(Sheet2!A2:B, "select A,B,'Sam'");
QUERY(Sheet3!A2:B, "select A,B,'Nick'");
QUERY(Sheet4!A2:B, "select A,B,'Mike'")},
"where Col2=TRUE"), 3, )))
I'm making a Google Spreadsheet which checks if a Value in Column A contains keywords out of a List in Column F. Problem is that I want to check if the value in A is exactly the same OR partly the same.
With a lot of help i've found over here I created this working formula:
=VLOOKUP(FILTER(ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)));REGEXMATCH(LOWER(A2);ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)))));ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:G)));1;FALSE)
Because I automatically import new lines of data I want to use ARRAYFORMULA. Unfortunately, I can't get it done.
This are my working formulas:
=VLOOKUP(FILTER(ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)));REGEXMATCH(LOWER(A2);ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)))));ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)));1;FALSE)
=VLOOKUP(FILTER(ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)));REGEXMATCH(LOWER(A3);ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)))));ArrayFormula((LOWER(F:F)));1;FALSE)
You can find my spreadsheet over here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aIdQ65SdeXW-4cTr8azQIiLNGcRCvTexGS_lFu8mECs/edit#gid=1308644379
=ARRAYFORMULA(PROPER(IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(LOWER(A2:A); LOWER(TEXTJOIN("|"; 1; F2:F))))))
I am trying to do a vlookup but my table array has more than one same value, and the result is only the first cell,
So, I would like to know how can I do to improve this function,
I'll explain the image, as you can see my table array is 251724001-4799 and what I am looking is the table called FED_INDICED and they have 7 differents values however my vlookup only throws me one
The next example has my inquiry
A simple vlookup function doesn't return multiple values. You would have to write an Index function. In this case I would recommend to do it horizontally. You would need a function similar to this one here:
=INDEX($B$2:$B$9, SMALL(IF($A$11=$A$2:$A$9, ROW($A$2:$A$9)-ROW($A$2)+1), COLUMN(A1)))
I am creating an excel sheet with following Data Validation drop down list.
NA
Done
(add some formula here)
Basically, i will be able to select either plain text "NA"/ "Done" from the dropdown list. But sometimes, I want the user to be able to calculate some values based on the cell respective to the row selected so, I want to have one formula as a choice inside the data validation dropdown list. Is this possible?
Data Validation List Source
When I click on Formulae option, it should execute the formula with respect to the cells in that Row
But currently, the formula that i put in doesn't execute, instead it will just show the whole formula in the cell when activated.
1)How can i make it so that when i select the formula from data validation list, it will execute it instead of filling up the cell with it?
2)How do i set the formula so that it will be using the cell from the current Row? (for example, if i am using the data validation List in N60, the formula should adapt itself to use the cell (let's say A60?).
I may not be able to help with the second part, but I was seeking an answer to the first and discovered a solution/workaround using Name Manager.
First, in Formula > Name Manager, create a new reference (the "refers to" will contain whatever formula you are wishing to ultimately display in the validation list. For this example, we use the formula reference "=IF($H54=..." and Name it "UniqueName"
Now, we go into Data Validation, Select List, and input the three items we want displayed in the list, with an equals sign preceding our newly named reference: ie. "NA,Done,=UniqueName"
Note: You can't start with the =UniqueName or validation will try to read it all as a formula and fail.
This method will allow the user to display "NA", "Done", or "=UniqueName" in the cell; if "=UniqueName" is selected, the cell itself will interpret this as a formula and execute it accordingly, displaying the results of "=IF($H54=...", or whateverelse you have designated to use as a named formula.
If it's too late for yours, I hope this helps someone else who may face a similar problem.
While I think I know what you're trying to say. Why don't you just use an IF formula to evaluate everything instead of selecting a drop down for every row manually. You already had it partially solved using IF. Just need to add the criteria for a "Done" and an "NA"
=if(A1="date","Done",if(A1<"date","NA",if(something else until you have all your catergories))
Just going to piggyback off of Mark's response.
If you really needed your named formula to be the first selection in the list, you can setup your list with a leading comma like so:
,=UniqueName,NA,Done
That worked out for my use, and there was no null item listed in the Data Validation drop down. Hope that helps!