Vlookup /在不同的工作表上匹配最大最小值

Question

I have 2 worksheets, one with company data and the other with a min max and answer column.

What i need to do is find out if value in column D in the company data is between the min/max in worksheet 2 output answer in worksheet 2.

Please can someone help. This is clearly a vlookup question but i haven't got a clue how to do the min/max.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

worksheet 1

NAME                    TYPE    NUMBEROFEMPLOYEES   Output
Wetland Plants Ltd      Client  4   
Capital Management LLP  Clients 3   
College ltd             Clients 156 

Worksheet 2

max         min     output
100000000   60000   big
59999       15000   medium
14999       0       small

Cheers guys

Answer 1

As TheGreatCO says, you need to re-arrange the table to make VLOOKUP (or LOOKUP) work but if you want the tables to remain as they are then try this formula in sheet1 E2

=INDEX(Sheet2!C$2:C$4,MATCH(D2,Sheet2!A$2:A$4,-1))

Assumes that D2 contains the number of employees and that your sheet2 table is in A2:C4 (Max in A2:A4, Min in B2:B4 and output in C2:C4)

You can copy the formula down the column....

Answer 2

You can do a VLOOKUP only if the key data column (column with data you are looking up by) is in ascending alphanumeric order, eg. from 0 to 9, a to z. In this case, your worksheet 2 should be (from top to bottom) 14999 -> 0, 59999 -> 15000, 100000000 -> 60000.