Question

I’m looking for an elegant solution to a formula for the following criteria:

Location: Sheet2, ColumnB (row 2 onwards, the formula will be dragged down)

• highlight/ select value in ColumnA, same row
• search for selected value in Sheet1, ColumnA
• return the value in Column(?), same row as the selected value was located in ColumnA, Sheet1
• If no value is found, return 0 (zero)
• (?) can be determined by matching the value in B$1 (Sheet2, fixed value), with a value somewhere in rowK in Sheet1

The following is a code that does the job, but I think it’s quite inefficient, especially as this code is being used across thousands of cells. It is also difficult for my less-experienced collegaue to follow (this code is taken from cell B5 in Sheet2):

=IF(ISNA
    (INDEX
        ('Sheet1'!$A:$HZ,
        MATCH($A5),'Sheet1'!$A:$A,0),
        MATCH(B$1,'Sheet1'!$22:$22,0))
        )
    ,,
    (INDEX
        ('Sheet1'!$A:$HZ,
        MATCH($A5),'Sheet1'!$A:$A,0),
        MATCH(B$1,'Sheet1'!$22:$22,0))
        )
    )

As always, any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Chris

Answer 1

Decided to keep it as-is in formula as I don’t want to lose visibility on the face of the worksheet. Thanks for all suggestions though – feel free to msg me if you have something better 😀