VLOOKUP Newbie Question

[Bob Phillips]

If you are dragging it across

=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,COLUMN(B1),FALSE)


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HTH

Bob

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[Teethless mama]

Assuming you're dragging down

=VLOOKUP($A$2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,ROW(A2),FALSE)

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Are your "adjacent cells" to the right?

Then you could use COLUMN()

for instance, if the VLOOKUP is in cell D4:

D4: =VLOOKUP($A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,COLUMN(B1),FALSE)

Then copy to the right.

 

[Pete_UK]

Instead of putting 2, 3, 4 etc you can use COLUMN(). This will return
2 if the formula is in column B, 3 for column C etc, so you may need
to add or subtract a constant to make it return 2 for the first column
you use it in.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Mike C]

I would like to pull back all the columns that match the lookup_value by
copying and pasting the VLOOKUP formula, but the column_index_num stays
the same. Instead of changing the column_index_num manually in each
cell is there a formula or value that will increase it by 1 when I drag
the formula to the adjacent cells?

=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,2,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,3,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,4,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,5,FALSE)

Thanks for the help.

Mike

 

[Gord Dibben]

One more method.

Select 4 cells. Type this is active cell.

=VLOOKUP(A2,Products!$A$2:$Z$100,{2,3,4,5},FALSE)

CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER to enter.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP