Comments on: Building Efficient Excel Formulas http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/building-efficient-excel-formulas Stop working for your data. Make your data work for you. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nick http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/building-efficient-excel-formulas/comment-page-1#comment-15 Nick Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:38:17 +0000 http://excelwithmonarch.com/xlreport/building-efficient-excel-formulas#comment-15 There are several ways of eliminating the "Double" VLOOKUP() formula. The one I tend use is: =IF(COUNTIF(Sheet2!$A$1:$A$4,A3),VLOOKUP(A3,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$4,2,FALSE),0) It first tries to count for the occurrence of the value and if found, will then do the VLOOKUP. There are several ways of eliminating the “Double” VLOOKUP() formula. The one I tend use is:

=IF(COUNTIF(Sheet2!$A$1:$A$4,A3),VLOOKUP(A3,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$4,2,FALSE),0)

It first tries to count for the occurrence of the value and if found, will then do the VLOOKUP.

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