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

Data Analysis

  • Working With Tables in Excel
  • Get column name from index in Excel Table
  • Chart Axes in Excel
  • Everything about Charts in Excel
  • Get column index in Excel Table

References

  • Find Closest Match in Excel Using INDEX, MATCH, ABS and MIN functions
  • How to get address of named range in Excel
  • How to use Excel ROW Function
  • Last row number in range
  • How to use Excel LOOKUP Function

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation must begin with
  • Data validation must not exist in list
  • Excel Data validation allow uppercase only
  • Excel Data validation must not contain
  • Excel Data validation no punctuation

VLOOKUP with 2 lookup tables in Excel

by

This tutorial shows how to calculate VLOOKUP with 2 lookup tables in Excel using the example below;

Formula

=VLOOKUP(value,IF(test,table1,table2),col,match)

Explanation

To use VLOOKUP with a variable table array, you can use the IF function inside VLOOKUP to control which table is used.

In the example shown the formula in cell E4 is:

=VLOOKUP(D5,IF(C4<2,table1,table2),2,TRUE)

This formula uses the number of years a salesperson has been with a company to determine which commission rate table to use.

Worked Example:   Basic Tax Rate calculation with VLOOKUP in Excel

How this formula works

Working from the inside out, the IF function in this formula, which is entered as the “table_array” argument in VLOOKUP, runs a logical test on the value in column C “Years”, which represents the number of years a salesperson has been with a company. If C5 is less than 2, then table1 is returned as the value if true. If C4 is greater than 2, table2 is returned as the value if false.

Worked Example:   Self-contained VLOOKUP in Excel

In other words, if years is less than 2, table1 is used as for table_array, and, if not, table2 is used as for table_array.

Worked Example:   Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel

Alternate syntax

If the lookup tables require different processing rules, then you can wrap two VLOOKUP functions inside of an IF function like so:

=IF(test,VLOOKUP (value,table1,col,match),VLOOKUP (value,table2,col,match))

This allows you to customize the inputs to each VLOOKUP as needed.

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

  • Check multiple cells are equal in Excel
  • How to use Excel NOT Function
  • How to use Excel OR Function
  • Extract multiple matches into separate rows in Excel
  • IF with wildcards in Excel

Date Time

  • Convert decimal minutes to Excel time
  • Display Date is same month in Excel
  • Count dates in current month in Excel
  • How to get number of days, weeks, months or years between two dates in Excel
  • How to calculate workdays per month in Excel

Grouping

  • Map text to numbers in Excel
  • Group arbitrary text values in Excel
  • Map inputs to arbitrary values in Excel
  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel
  • Group times into unequal buckets in Excel

General

  • Subtotal by color in Excel
  • Excel Autofill Cell Ranges, Copy, Paste
  • How to count total number of cells in a rectangular range in Excel
  • Currency vs Accounting Format in Excel
  • Delete Blank Rows at Once in Excel
© 2023 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning