[Solved] Excel cells matching in VBA [closed]

Question

You can accomplish this with a VLOOKUP between two books. The guts of the equation are below. You wont actually type in the ‘[book2]SheetName’ portion, this will need to reflect the name of your other workbook and the sheet that you are looking at within that book.

A2 = Look up value (in your example 6.02)
X1 = Column the return value is (in your example “dog”)
X2 = Column Index Number (Of if you are not starting from A it represents the (Index Col of Value – Index of Look up Value) + 1

=VLOOKUP(A2,'[Book2]SheetName'!$A$X1,X2,0)

Accepted Answer

You can accomplish this with a VLOOKUP between two books. The guts of the equation are below. You wont actually type in the ‘[book2]SheetName’ portion, this will need to reflect the name of your other workbook and the sheet that you are looking at within that book.

A2 = Look up value (in your example 6.02)
X1 = Column the return value is (in your example “dog”)
X2 = Column Index Number (Of if you are not starting from A it represents the (Index Col of Value – Index of Look up Value) + 1

=VLOOKUP(A2,'[Book2]SheetName'!$A$X1,X2,0)