Steps to Speed Up Windows 10: Troubleshooting:Dates and Vlookup... Error

Monday, September 26, 2016

Dates and Vlookup...

I have a list of dates in column A. They are the first date of each month and formated to show only the month and year. Column B has a list of values that correspond to the month in column A. Given a specific date (day month and year), how do I find the
value associated with that date.

Example

May-11
1234123

June-11
35463

July-11
52352

August-11
4574562

September-11
235423465

Given the date 06/14/11 returns 35463, and 8/2/11 would return 4574562.

Solutions to the Problem Dates and Vlookup...

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One generic way is via this index/match with the advantage
that it'll work regardless whether the return col contains text or numbers
Assume your data as posted is in A2:B6, real dates in A2:A6, data to be returned in B2:B6
Assume your input date is in C2 (this is presumed a real date)
Place this in D2, normal ENTER to confirm will do:
=INDEX(B2:B6,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(TEXT(C2,"mmmyy")=TEXT(A2:A6,"mmmyy"),),0))
The TEXT function is used to "reduce" the real dates to "mmmyy" text strings to enable matching/comparison

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