Lookup first column value, then find last column in matched column return value

[paul2342]

Hi everyone,
I've been digging and diggling online and half the solution, but can't solve the other bit, and help appreciated.

I have this stock sector list like this attached below:

I've managed to drag the formula down of this:

=OFFSET('Sector Long-Short rank'!A5,0,MATCH(MAX('Sector Long-Short rank'!5:5)+1,'Sector Long-Short rank'!A5:'Sector Long-Short rank'!XFD5,1)-2)

(It takes the data from this other sheet here which is this):

The problem I've got, is I'm trying to add some sort of lookup so that the values in the first column of the sector name are matched first by finding the matching value in the second sheet, and THEN grabbing the relevant last column value and last but one column value.

I've solved half the formula but can't work out how to match the column A from both sheets and the right row (the problem is you see, column A is sorted in not necessarily the same order and might change, which is the reason for some sort of VLOOKUP or similar which I'm struggling with).

Any help appreciated as my brain is toasted. :D

Paul

 

[Fluff]

How about

=INDEX('Sector Long-Short rank'!$C$5:$Z$100,MATCH($A4,'Sector Long-Short rank'!$A$5:$A$100,0),COUNTA('Sector Long-Short rank'!$C$5:$Z$5)-1)

 

[paul2342]

That's amazing and did the trick perfectly Fluff. Really appreciate you taking the time to reply so fast, thankyou very much. Have a great week

 

[Fluff]

You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.

 

[paul2342]

Hi Fluff,
I'm not sure if you have time, but I had a quick question. I copied the working sheet to a copy of it, and called the new one with the formula "Top long movers (don't touch)" and the slightly edited the formula to:

=INDEX('Sector history'!$C$4:$Z$100,MATCH($A4,'Sector history'!$A$4:$A$100,0),COUNTA('Sector history'!$C$4:$Z$4)-1)

but for some reason, it returns a value of "0". I've tried to solve it, checking both text lookup are 'text', and also tried the match command on it's own which returns a value of "11", but seem stuck at this last hurdle. I just wondered if there was anything obvious I might have missed?

This is the new 'copy' sheet:

and this is the source one where it's grabbing similar data to the one that was working >>

Any pointers to save my brain from going boom greatly appreciated

Best Regards,
Paul

 

[Fluff]

Is there anything in K4:Z4?

 

[paul2342]

Hi Fluff,
If I CTRL > to the end, it jumps to J14, and then another CTRL > goes to the last excel column of XFD (I'm on a Mac).

Best Regards,
Paul

 

[Fluff]

What does

=COUNTA('Sector history'!$C$4:$Z$4)

return?

 

[paul2342]

Hi Fluff,
It returns a value of 8.

 

[Fluff]

That should all be ok, what if you change the format of the to Percent?