Lookups using duplicated data.

KingCoder

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Hi There,

I've done quite a bit of researching on ways to extract multiple instances of address where they all have a unique number however I always only get one returned result.

My table looks like below (sorry for formatting can't access table maker at present):

A
Unique Number

B
Original Address

C
Original Postcode

D
Routed Postcodes In Order

E
Unique Number in Routed Order

F
Routed Full Address

G
Stop Number

All this spreadsheet is for is to take some jumbled addresses then copy a unique number and address over to E and F once the postcodes have been put in the right order in column D manually.

So the formula in column E should lookup each instance of a postcode in column C matching it against the value in column D, then put the value from column A in the matched row into column E.

So far I have tried this formula below however where there are multiple instances of postcodes in column D and subsequently column C I either get the first instance or the last instance when using either SMALL or LARGE any ideas how I can get all instances making sure each one is unique?

{=INDEX($A$1:$A$101,LARGE(IF(C$1:C$101=D2,ROW(C$1:C$101)),COUNTIF(C$1:C$101,D2)))}

Also using this formula below in column F however I have the same problem with it not picking up every instance of the postcodes...

=INDEX($A$2:$C$101,MATCH(E2,$A$2:$A$101,0),1)&", "&INDEX($A$2:$C$101,MATCH(E2,$A$2:$A$101,0),2)

Your help is greatly appreciated.
 

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[TD="colspan: 4"]it must be more complicated than this….[/TD]
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Thanks for your diagram that is really helpful, though how about backing your diagram up with some formulas...
 
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if indeed that is all you want....

the uniques column has this formula in row 2 ($d$10 contains ab2 )

=if(b2=$d$10,a2,"")

just drag it down....
 
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I must be missing something here, all this forumla does is check values in B2 to see if it matches cell D10, I am not using the address data as a lookup so this doesn't help and how does this help with duplicated addresses...
 
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I clearly have not yet deduced what you want - can you make a silly example and paste it on here - your post 3 led me to believe that this was what you wanted...
 
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