Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • How To Filter Data in Excel
  • How to create Checklist in Excel
  • How to Create Gantt Chart in Excel
  • What-If Analysis: Scenarios and Goal Seek in Excel
  • How to count table rows in Excel

References

  • Find Closest Match in Excel Using INDEX, MATCH, ABS and MIN functions
  • How to use Excel VLOOKUP Function
  • How to use Excel TRANSPOSE Function
  • Multi-criteria lookup and transpose in Excel
  • How to use Excel ROWS Function

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation allow weekday only
  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total
  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • Excel Data validation exists in list
  • Excel Data validation only dates between

Basic INDEX MATCH approximate in Excel

by

This tutorial shows how to calculate Basic INDEX MATCH approximate in Excel using the example below;

Formula

=INDEX(grades,MATCH(score,scores,1))

Explanation

This example shows how to use INDEX and MATCH to retrieve a grade from a table based a given score. This requires an “approximate match”, since it is unlikely that the actual score exists in the table. The formula in cell F5 is:

=INDEX(C5:C9,MATCH(E5,B5:B9,1))

Which returns “B”, the correct grade for a score of 88.

Worked Example:   Count unique text values with criteria

How this formula works

This formula uses MATCH find the correct row for a given score.  MATCH is configured to look for the value in E5 in column B:

MATCH(E5,B5:B9,1)

Note that the last argument is 1 (equivalent to TRUE), which allows MATCH to perform an approximate match on values listed in ascending order. In this configuration, MATCH returns the position of the first value that is less than or equal to the lookup value. In this case, the score is 88, row 4 is returned.

Worked Example:   Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel

Once MATCH returns 4 we have:

=INDEX(C5:C9,4)

Which causes INDEX to retrieve the value at the 4th row of the range C5:C9, which is “B”.

Worked Example:   Partial match against numbers with wildcard in Excel

Note: values in column B must be sorted in ascending order in order for MATCH to return the correct position.

Post navigation

Previous Post:

Weighted average in Excel

Next Post:

Win loss points calculation in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • How to return blank in place of #DIV/0! error in Excel
  • Return blank if in Excel
  • IF function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Nested IF function example in Excel
  • IFERROR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Date Time

  • Convert Excel time to Unix time in Excel
  • Display Days until expiration date in Excel
  • WEEKDAY function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Get day name from date in Excel
  • How to show last updated date stamp in Excel

Grouping

  • Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel
  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel
  • Group arbitrary text values in Excel
  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • Count cells that do not contain many strings in Excel
  • How to test a range for numbers in Excel
  • Find, Trace and Correct Errors in Excel Formulas using ‘Formula Auditing’
  • Mark Workbook as Final in Excel
  • How to calculate percentage discount in Excel
© 2023 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning