Hi there , I have this formula
=IFERROR(IF(MATCH(A2,G:G,0)*OR(MATCH(B2,G:G,0)),"Present",),"Absent")
What I want is to return Present if one of the email from Column A and B present in Column G.
The Formula Work with *And but its not working with *OR.
If there is no match, then Match() will return the #N/A error, which will be multiplied with the other Match() result and still return an error. Therefore, this formula will only have a non-error result if BOTH Match formulas return a proper value. That's not what you want, I assume.
You need a formula or function that does not resolve in an error if there is only one match for the two conditions.
One option is to encase each Match into an Iferror. Anonther option is to use Countif, along the lines of this:
=if(countif(G:G,A2)+countif(G:G,B2),"Present","Absent")
Countif returns 0 if nothing is found or a count of the items found. The zero will equal a FALSE in the IF statement, so if neither Countif finds anything, the FALSE argument of the IF function will fire. Bit if any of the two Countif functions find a match, the result will be a number greater than zero, so the TRUE part of the IF function will fire.
I made a formula using match and isnumber.
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A2;G:G;0));"Present";IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(B2;G:G;0));"Present";"Absent"))
So if match number is value that means there are match in column G so then it will return Present, simple as that.
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I am testing this if condition to whether O2 cell is matching with an element in A2:J2.
But the formula is displaying in the other 10 cells.
How can I get rid of this issue and execute the formula in only one cell?
Your criteria for the IF function: A2:J2=O2 is an array, which is the reason why it's spilling the values to the other cells. It's basically doing this: A2=O2 B2=O2 C2=O2 D2=O2 and so on..
And it returns all of the result of these. Therefore, you will have an array of results.
Maybe you want to consider this formula: =IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(O2,A2:J2,0)),"Yes","No")
The match searches for O2 in A2:J2. If it finds the first match, it will return its position within the range. Otherwise, it will return an error. Therefore, we use ISNUMBER to check if the result of the match is a number. If it's a number, the ISNUMBER will return true. Otherwise, false. Then we'll use IF to capture the result of the ISNUMBER to return Yes if TRUE and No if FALSE.
Another way to solve this issue:
=IF(COUNTIF(A2:J2,O2)>0,"Yes","No")
this formula will count the content of cell O2 within A2:J2 and if available, it will return a number greater than 0.
I want to perform a search on column 2 to find keywords that are missing in Column 1. I used the formula =IF(MATCH(G2,$E$2:$E$117,0),1,"No") so for rows that return 1, it means that the keyword exists in column 1. When a keyword in Column 2 cannot be found in Column 1, my formula will return #N/A. (Image attached)
However, I would like to understand whether this can be done in a much simpler way, perhaps using vlookup function? If so, how?
I am also unsure about the difference between this formula and the vlookup.
Hope someone experienced with Excel functions could explain it to me. Thank you in advance.
Cheers.
MATCH returns the relative location of the value in the range, while VLOOKUP will return the value.
When using MATCH wrap it in ISNUMBER to deal with the fact that if not found the MATCH will return an Error:
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(G2,$E$2:$E$117,0)),1,"No")
Now instead of an error you will get No in the field when not found.
Another method would be to use COUNTIF:
=IF(COUNTIF($E$2:$E$117,G2),1,"No")
Although shorter, it will be slower than the MATCH version. It may not be noticeable with the limited data set but too many(10,000+) will cause problems.
To use VLOOKUP:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(G2,$E$2:$E$117,1,FALSE)),"No",1)
This would be the perfect occasion to try the Brand NEW
XLOOKUP (wooo)
XLOOKUP is different from VLOOKUP in that it uses separate lookup and return arrays, where VLOOKUP uses a single table array followed by a column index number.
Syntax
=XLOOKUP (lookup, lookup_array, return_array, [not_found], [match_mode], [search_mode])
Arguments
lookup - The lookup value.
lookup_array - The array or range to search.
return_array - The array or range to return.
not_found - [optional] Value to return if no match found.
match_mode - [optional] 0 = exact match (default), -1 = exact match or next smallest, 1 = exact match or next larger, 2 = wildcard match.
search_mode - [optional] 1 = search from first (default), -1 = search from last, 2 = binary search ascending, -2 = binary search descending.
I have two tables, table1 and table2. I execute VLOOKUP function in order to fill in 3 columns from table2 into table1.
For some reason, the formula doesn't work for the first row, and doesn't find the exact match from table2 even though it exists.
I made sure that both columns (for comparison) have the same format (General) and there is no extra spacing. Same conditions also apply for the rest of the records, and it works there properly.
table1 - you can see the missing matches for the first row.
table2 - you can see the match does exist, but it is not reflected in table1.
Is there any other reason why VLOOKUP can't find a match for a specific record?
Try directly evaluating equality for the two cells that you believe are equal, for instance if A2 is the value you are looking up and Sheet2!A100 is the value you think should match try this in a cell:
=(A2=Sheet2!A100)
If that returns false then you know that there is some formatting issue or error in your vlookup.
Also try Formulas / Evaluate Formula ribbon command to step through your vlookup in case that highlights something wrong.
Okay - Here's a doozy of a use-case. VLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH were returning #N/A for values that were "apparently" equal. Cleaned my data with =TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160)," "))) and that didn't work.
Then, I compared two cells that looked like they had matching values and they evaluated to FALSE (A1=B1 resulted in FALSE).
Then, as a last resort, I code checked each ASCII value for each character in the two cells and I found that the "-" in one cell was different from the "-" in the other cell. The first cell has the ASCII value 63 and the second cell had the ASCII value 45 for what looked like was the same "-". Turns out that 63 is a "short dash" and 45 is your standard dash or minus symbol.
The way to evaluate the ASCII codes for each character in a string is to combine the CODE function with the MID or RIGHT functions after testing the cells for length using the LEN function.
Examples:
LEN(A1) should equal LEN(B1)
For the first character in each cell:
CODE(A1) Code defaults to the first character on the left
CODE(MID(A1,2,1) yields the ASCII for the second character
CODE(MID(A1,3,1) yields the ASCII for the second character
and so on
If you have a lot of characters you can post an integer sequence next to your CODE-MID function and point the position argument to the related integer and just copy down or across
Or
You can look for the weird non-numeric character and just test that one for both cells.
Have observed scenarios like this where direct comparison fails (e.g. formula =A1=B1 resulted in FALSE) and yet length =LEN(A1)=LEN(B1) and letter by letter ASCI comparison (=CODE(A1,1,1), =CODE(A1,2,1), =CODE(A1,3,1), etc.) shows no difference.
What worked was to adjust the format of the lookup value inside the VLOOKUP.
e.g.
=VLOOKUP(A1, ARRAY, COL_NUM, FALSE) -> =VLOOKUP(TEXT(A1, "000"), ARRAY, COL_NUM, FALSE)
Here's an issue I encountered: my VLOOKUP formula returns the correct value (1) if I type in the value-to-look-up (1.016) directly in the formula, shown in cell F54.
However, if I referenced a value in column A as the value-to-look-up, the formula returned #N/A, as shown in cell F55.
(I was actually trying to VLOOKUP the current row's A value plus 0.015, i.e. VLOOKUP(A54+0.015, $A$3:$B$203, 2, FALSE))
Yet if I use the ROUND function, then the VLOOKUP formula works, as shown in F56.
I recently encountered the same issue and resolved it by changing the vlookup formula to =VLOOKUP([value to lookup], [lookup table], [column to return in the lookup table], False). Setting the last input argument to "false" forces Excel vlookup function to perform an exact match.
I've got a function that uses If, Index, And, and Match. It is supposed to change the desired value when I toggle a built-in drop-down table that has 2 options ("good" and "bad"). If "good" is selected, the desired cell gives a result of "3". If "bad" is selected, I erroneously get an "N/A" error. I've racked my brain and all I can think of is there is some text/number issues with the match.. any suggestions? Here is the formula:
=IF(AND(MATCH(B2,$AO$2:$AO$31,0),MATCH("Good",$AU$2:$AU$31,0),C2="SG"),3,IF(AND(MATCH(B2,$AO$2:$AO$31,0),MATCH("Bad",$AU$2:$AU$31,0),C2="SG"),-5))
You can't use MATCH as a test on it's own because it doesn't return TRUE/FALSE, it returns either a number or #N/A error, so if there is no match the formula errors out, use ISNUMBER function wrapped around MATCH to return TRUE/FALSE as required in this situation, e.g. in place of your first MATCH use
=ISNUMBER(MATCH(B2,$AO$2:$AO$31,0))
...and the same for the other MATCH functions
...or you can use COUNTIF which will return a positive number (a match) or a zero (no match) e.g.
=COUNTIF($AO$2:$AO$31,B2)
In an IF function any non-zero number will equate to TRUE and zero to FALSE
In Excel we have the VLOOKUP function that looks for a value in a column in a table and then returns a value from a given column in that table if it finds something. If it doesn't, it produces an error.
Is there a function that just returns true or false depending on if the value was found in a column or not?
You could wrap your VLOOKUP() in an IFERROR()
Edit: before Excel 2007, use =IF(ISERROR()...)
You still have to wrap it in an ISERROR, but you could use MATCH() instead of VLOOKUP():
Returns the relative position of an
item in an array that matches a
specified value in a specified order.
Use MATCH instead of one of the LOOKUP
functions when you need the position
of an item in a range instead of the
item itself.
Here's a complete example, assuming you're looking for the word "key" in a range of cells:
=IF(ISERROR(MATCH("key",A5:A16,FALSE)),"missing","found")
The FALSE is necessary to force an exact match, otherwise it will look for the closest value.
Just use a COUNTIF ! Much faster to write and calculate than the other suggestions.
EDIT:
Say you cell A1 should be 1 if the value of B1 is found in column C and otherwise it should be 2. How would you do that?
I would say if the value of B1 is found in column C, then A1 will be positive, otherwise it will be 0. Thats easily done with formula: =COUNTIF($C$1:$C$15,B1), which means: count the cells in range C1:C15 which are equal to B1.
You can combine COUNTIF with VLOOKUP and IF, and that's MUCH faster than using 2 lookups + ISNA. IF(COUNTIF(..)>0,LOOKUP(..),"Not found")
A bit of Googling will bring you tons of examples.
We've always used an
if(iserror(vlookup,"n/a",vlookup))
Excel 2007 introduced IfError which allows you to do the vlookup and add output in case of error, but that doesn't help you with 2003...
You can use:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(lookup value,table array,column no,FALSE)),"FALSE","TRUE")
ISNA is the best function to use. I just did. I wanted all cells whose value was NOT in an array to conditionally format to a certain color.
=ISNA(VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet1!$A:$D,2,FALSE))