Vlookup problem

[Blade2304]

I have a data sheet that contains a list of footballers (soccer) names
(i4:i35). Each time they score a goal i enter a 1 by the side of there
name, then a 2 when they get a second etc. In a second data sheet i use
data validation to allow people to choose anyone of these players eg
ab4= the list of players. When a player scores i want their number of
goals to appear in this second sheet eg in ac4, but obviously this
depends on which player has been chosen from the list in ab4. I have
tried using if statements within if statements but you can only have a
maximum of 7 'ifs' eg
=if(ab4="john",$j$4,if(ab4="dan",$j$5,if(ab4="ron" ,$j$6,0))). I have
tried using Vlookup by doing =VLOOKUP(AB4,i4:i35,2) where the goals
scored are my second column and when i choose the first person in the
list in ab4 the value that is returned in ac4 is 0 when it should be 1
since this is what i entered in j4, please help!!!


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[Kevin Vaughn]

It seems to me your biggest problem is that in your look up range, you are
only referencing 1 column, but trying to get information from the second
column (j)
But I would also add a false argument so that it would find exact matches.
Something like this (note, I used A4 instead of AB4 as I didn't really want
to scroll all the way ...)

=VLOOKUP(A4,I4:J35,2,FALSE)

 

[Blade2304]

Thanks, thats worked exactly how i wanted it to

 

[Kevin Vaughn]

You are welcome.