Hi Hilary,
Mind sharing your solution with the group?
What came to mind for me was an array solution that uses small/row to
identify the second smallest row number for the matching name, and index to
retrieve the reference to the cell.
Here's a formula using that approach:
{
=INDEX(NamesRange,SMALL(IF(NamesRange=NameToFind,ROW(NamesRange)),OccurenceN
umber)-ROW(INDEX(NamesRange,1))+1)
}
If you were going to use many of these formulas, NamesRange was large, and
often there was not going to be a match (for example there was only one
occurrence and you were looking for the second), you could speed up the
formulas by use the following version that checks the count (using countif)
of matching names, and if the count is < OccurenceNumber (2 in your stated
question) it will skip the array formula and just return an error. If there
will usually be a match, this would actually be slower since it has the
added countif.
{
=IF(COUNTIF(NamesRange,NameToFind)<OccurenceNumber,#NUM!,INDEX(NamesRange,SM
ALL(IF(NamesRange=NameToFind,ROW(NamesRange)),OccurenceNumber)-ROW(INDEX(Nam
esRange,1))+1))
}
Upon a little more thought, here is a non-array solution for finding exactly
the 2nd occurrence (the array version would work for finding any specific
occurrence). It uses match to find the first occurrence, then another match
to find the next occurrence. It should be faster---it has less work to do.
If there is no match it either returns an NA error or if the only match was
on the very last row of the range, a REF error.
=INDEX(NamesRange,MATCH(NameToFind,NamesRange,0)+MATCH(NameToFind,INDEX(Name
sRange,MATCH(NameToFind,NamesRange,0)+1):INDEX(NamesRange,ROWS(NamesRange)),
0))
Asa
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Thanks guys I have figured it out with index and match and countif. Thanks
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Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Lookup and return 2nd occurrance
Hello Excel Masters
if I have a list if names like below in column A and say I have
corresponding different figures in column B.
Hilary
Rajan
Maries
Noorain
Hilary
Rajan
Don
Kris
Asa
And so on and I want to return for instance the second occurance of hilary
with its corresponding figure. Kindly help with formula. Thanks.
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