Hi osiso,
You need to nest match function inside your vlookup. Send me the excel file with sample data and I'll show you how.... Regards, Upendra Singh +91-9910227325, +91-9310760597 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-mac...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of osiso Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:25 AM To: MS EXCEL AND VBA MACROS Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ need help vlookup macro or another idea sheet is called 'work' stock id start weight 200705 200706 return end wt country code AUSAHA1 8.32% #N/A 11.10 AUS AUSAZH1 5.22% -1.53 AUS AUSBUU1 5.39% -0.27 AUS AUSADW1 4.08% 0.52 AUS sheet is called fx Date AUS AUT 199704 0.782 0.082 199705 0.761 0.083 199706 0.749 0.082 199707 0.745 0.077 199708 0.735 0.079 i would like to get the fx rate for each stock id given its country and the yearmonth i'm investigating. ideally the macro will populate '200705' and '200706' from the .csv file i open then it will lookup the fx rates for the given month and the given country. the proble is this: =vlookup(country code, 'fx', column number,false) country code is a cell that is easily referenced and 'fx' is stored as a name, but the COLUMN NUMBER IS FIXED. i would like this to be dynamic. can i do a vlookup within a vlookup where the column number is linked to the column header in the sheet 'work' (its the yearmonth which can be used in the fx matrix)?????????? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 5,200 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
