Check if an excel cell exists on another worksheet in a column - and return the contents of a different column

Question

What I want to do is to say if the contents of cell D3 (on current worksheet) exist in column A in the first worksheet (in my case entitled list). (and they always do exist somewhere). Return the contents of the corresponding row in Column C .

In other words if the matching cell is found in Row 12 - return data from C12 .

I've used the following syntax but I can't seem to get the last part to work correctly.

=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(D3,List!A:A, 0)), "No Match", VLOOKUP(D3,List!A:A,1,TRUE))

How to fix the formula?

Answer 1

You can use following formulas.

For Excel 2007 or later:

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(D3,List!A:C,3,FALSE),"No Match")

For Excel 2003:

=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(D3,List!A:A, 0)), "No Match", VLOOKUP(D3,List!A:C,3,FALSE))

Note, that

• I'm using List!A:C in VLOOKUP and returns value from column № 3
• I'm using 4th argument for VLOOKUP equals to FALSE , in that case VLOOKUP will only find an exact match, and the values in the first column of List!A:C do not need to be sorted (opposite to case when you're using TRUE ).