vlookup - 仅返回带有文本的单元格

Question

I need to return a cell that has text in it, but am running into difficulty.

Above is a sample table I'm working with. What I'd like to be able to do, is lookup id 1 and have it output Rich. When I do a vlookup, however, it gives no output. And while vlookup min/max will output integers, they don't work with text. Does anyone know how I can scan multiple ids, but only output the filled text cell?

Answer 1

There may be a shorter formula for this but I banged this off quickly and it does dynamically truncate the ranges in column B down to the minimum number of rows necessary.

=INDEX(B:B, AGGREGATE(15, 6, ROW(B2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))/(ISTEXT(B2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))*(A2:INDEX(A:A, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))=D3), 1))

To retrieve a second, third, etc. entry change the k parameter of AGGREGATE to a COUNTIF and fill down.

=INDEX(B:B, AGGREGATE(15, 6, ROW(B$2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))/(ISTEXT(B$2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))*(A$2:INDEX(A:A, MATCH("zzz",B:B )))=D3), COUNTIF(D$3:D3, D3)))