EXCEL - Search formula with multiple criteria

Question

Do you know any way to write a formula for vlookup/indexmatch which will look for first result other than "null" for "aaaa", and then for bbb etc?

I was trying to do that with using multiple if/offsets etc, but its not working.

Is it even possible (there can be one row with "aaa" but also 10 on even more).

Answer 1

The following array formula returns the first entry in column B where it is not null and also where column A has cell value aaaaa .

= IFERROR(INDEX(B1:B6,MATCH(1,(A1:A6="aaaaa")*(B1:B6<>"null"),0)),"no match")

Note this is an array formula, so you must press Ctrl + Shift + Enter on the keyboard after typing the formula rather than just pressing Enter .

To return a similar result except for bbbbb , just replace aaaaa in the above formula with bbbbb .