[mso] Fwd: FW: Re: Fwd: RE: My "LOOKUP in Excel" saga

Thanks Ray, I saw your solution to my PROBLEM ..... but I assume that the 
answer to 
my QUESTION is that you have no ideas about why LOOKUP works in one case and 
not in the other!

:-)
Graham


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As I said last week, I would use a MATCH and INDEX combination, because this
will work better with unsorted data.

Ray

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Shucks! Well actually, *&%^@#^....

My reference to J9 should read J5, of course!

Graham



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Hi again, Ray

Thanks for the nth Occurrence pointer to ozgrid.com.

All stemmed from a message of mine a while ago. I appreciate that you say
you avoid  LOOKUP but wonder if you saw/have any ideas on the actual query
(now tidied up I

hope!) below:

My students are doing basic work on Functions and two came up with a similar
SS  formula.

LOOKUP (J5, Filled Down 5:27) returns different cols here (unsorted B:H
values):
        A        B          C            D           E               F

  G        H           I
3   Year   USA   Canada   Japan   France    Germany     Italy     UK
5   1984    7.5       10.9        2.8       10.0          7.1
5.9   
11.7     =MAX(B5:H5)
        J9 then contains     =LOOKUP(I5,B5:H5,$B$3:$H$3)
         
... but returns #NA here in Col F, if MIN returns Col D value (as in Row
3)!!!

       A               B                 C                 D
E   
                        F
1    towns      Airline 1      Airline 2       Airline 3     cheapest

 best deal         
2    NY   £325            £330            £355      =MIN(B2:D2)
                     F2 then contains     =LOOKUP(E2,B2:D2,$B$1:$D$1)

3    Berlin        £167            £159            £86
=MIN(B3:D3)


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