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Lookup/vlookup/hlookup

How can I look up 2 criteria and return an answer - e.g find criteria in column A, find second criteria in column b and then return the answer from column c?

RE: lookup/vlookup/hlookup

Hello Scott,
I hope you enjoyed your Excel training session with us.

In response to your question, you cannot actually do a lookup based on two separate columns, and then returning the results from the third column. However, what I would suggest is that you concatenate columns A & B in your lookup and your results tables. Then you can perform your lookup based on the concatenation. To concatenate, use the following formula:

=CONCATENATE (text1,text2,...)

So for your example, this may look something like:
=CONCATENATE (A1," ",B1)

I added a <space> between A1 and B1, so that the concatenation doesn't merge the two words together. You can add any text or characters you would like by using quotation marks.

I hope this resolves your question. If it has, please mark this question as resolved. If you require further assistance, please reply to this post. And please feel free to ask any other questions you may have.

Have a great day.

Regards,
Mara
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Trainer

Excel tip:

Fill formulae across a sheet

To copy a formula down a spreadsheet where there is data underneath, to the left or to the right of the formula, double-click on the fill handle. The fill handle is the little black cross that appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the formula cell. Unfortunately, no similar facility exists to copy formulae across the sheet.

One reasonably quick way to copy an existing formula across a sheet is to select the formula and the cells on the right to which you want to copy it. Then press Ctrl+R to copy the formula across the selected range, or, if you are menu-minded, use the Edit|Fill|Right command.

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