Define and Reference fixed data in a table

[RedHook]

Hi All

I'm new to Excel and would like to know if it's possible to do the
following:

Define a table(2 dimensional array) of fixed data like this:

Tom Dick Harry

Alpha 10 7 5

Bravo 6 27 4

Charlie 17 22 8


I'd then like to be able to reference each element in the array using
the row and column identifiers as indexes, so (Alpha, Harry) would
return 5, (Charlie,Harry) would return 8 and so on.

Tia
RH

 

[Ardus Petus]

Say you have Alpha in F1, Harry in G1 and your data (including headers) in
A14
Enter formula:
=INDEX(B24,EQUIV(F1,A2:A4,0),EQUIV(G1,B11,0))

HTH

 

[RedHook]

Thanks Ardus - works great, although I had to use MATCH instead of
EQUIV for some reason.

 

[Ardus Petus]

The reason is I'm a bloody frenchman, and forgot to translate the formula!

Cheers,

 

[RagDyeR]

With your present configuration, you might try the "intersection operator",
which is a <Space>.

=Bravo Dick
OR
=Dick Bravo
Will return 27

AS well as
=Alpha Harry
Will return 5

And
=Tom Charlie
Will return 17


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HTH,

RD
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Thanks Ardus - works great, although I had to use MATCH instead of
EQUIV for some reason.