Question

I have an excel spreadsheet with the following data

—– A—————–B

1 —-X

2

3—-January 2012—–30

4—-February 2012—-50

5—-March 2012——105

6—-April 2012——–140

I would like to set a formula in A1 cell that would give me the value of column A of the first row, where column B has a value higher than 100… in my case the value would be March 2012

I know I am supposed to use VLOOKUP function, but I never used it and it is kinda science fiction for me… specially because I need to put a conditional in there

please help

Answer 1

As per my comment….

You can use this formula based on your jpeg in comment above

=INDEX(A3:A12;MATCH(TRUE;B3:B12>100;0))

confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

or you can throw in an additional INDEX so that the formula can be entered normally, i.e.

=INDEX(A3:A12;MATCH(TRUE;INDEX(B3:B12>100;0);0))