在这种情况下如何使用vlookup命令

Question

the sytax of vlookup

vlookup(value we are looking for, Data range, index, exact/aprrox. match)

ie vlookup(A1,B1:E3,1,false) the vlookup will the first column for looking up our desired value which is in cell A1. but if with the same data range i want it to search my value "A1" in the 3rd column and it should return me the value in the first column.

Example to clearify my question

     A      B      c     D    E
1    22    area    3     4    5
2          length  2     22   2
3          height  4     32   7

in the above data I want excel to search A1 which is "22" in column D and return the value opposite to it in column B which is "length"

Answer 1

Try this

=INDEX(B1:B3,MATCH(A1,D1:D3,0))

In responce to comment, using Index Match in a horizontal fasion:

Suppose your data is like this

     A      B       C       D
1    22     area    length  height
2           3       2       4
3           4       22      32
4           5       2       7

To get the same result as per your original data, use

=INDEX(B1:D1,MATCH(A1,B3:D3,0))