Matching Formula has me Stumped!

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I've been working on this one for a bit with no success. I've outlined what I'm trying to accomplish below:
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Currently, the return works very well, but only with exact matches, everything else throws me an ERROR. I tried modifying the match_type which causes me to throw an error for some reason. What am I doing wrong?

Here is my current formula:
Code: 
=IF(ISBLANK('Quoting Form'!$F$8), "???", IFERROR(INDEX('Motor Data'!$S$10:$S$15,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$8,INDEX('Motor Data'!$T$10:$X$15,,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$4,'Motor Data'!$T$9:$X$9,0)),0)),"ERROR"))
 

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Hi Changing the outer Match to Greater than instead of exact match should work:

Code: 
=IF(ISBLANK('Quoting Form'!$F$8), "???", IFERROR(INDEX('Motor Data'!$S$10:$S$15,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$8,INDEX('Motor Data'!$T$10:$X$15,,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$4,'Motor Data'!$T$9:$X$9,0)),-1)),"ERROR"))

I tried replicating the same it worked for me:

ABCDEFGHIJK
ContractorVoltageHP
A
B
C
DFormula
EC
F

<colgroup><col style="width: 25pxpx"><col><col><col><col><col><col><col><col><col><col><col></colgroup><thead>
</thead><tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]120[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]208[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]230[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]240[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]480[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]135[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]40[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]480[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]90[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]30[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]30[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]45[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]27[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]18[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet2​

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Worksheet Formulas[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<thead>[TR="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=DAE7F5]#DAE7F5[/URL] "]
[TH="width: 10px"]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
</thead><tbody>[TR]
[TH="width: 10px, bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=DAE7F5]#DAE7F5[/URL] "]I6[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=INDEX($A$1:$A$7,MATCH(K2,INDEX($A$1:$F$7,,MATCH($I$2,A1:F1,0)),-1))[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Hope this helps!

Restyl said:
I've been working on this one for a bit with no success. I've outlined what I'm trying to accomplish below:
3GmMnOf.png

Currently, the return works very well, but only with exact matches, everything else throws me an ERROR. I tried modifying the match_type which causes me to throw an error for some reason. What am I doing wrong?

Here is my current formula:
Code: 
=IF(ISBLANK('Quoting Form'!$F$8), "???", IFERROR(INDEX('Motor Data'!$S$10:$S$15,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$8,INDEX('Motor Data'!$T$10:$X$15,,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$4,'Motor Data'!$T$9:$X$9,0)),0)),"ERROR"))
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Aryatect said:
Hi Changing the outer Match to Greater than instead of exact match should work:

Code: 
=IF(ISBLANK('Quoting Form'!$F$8), "???", IFERROR(INDEX('Motor Data'!$S$10:$S$15,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$8,INDEX('Motor Data'!$T$10:$X$15,,MATCH('Quoting Form'!$D$4,'Motor Data'!$T$9:$X$9,0)),-1)),"ERROR"))

I tried replicating the same it worked for me:

ABCDEFGHIJK
ContractorVoltageHP
A
B
C
DFormula
EC
F

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]120[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]208[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]230[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]240[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]480[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]135[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]40[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]480[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]90[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]30[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]30[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]45[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]27[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]18[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet2​

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Worksheet Formulas[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TH]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]I6[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=INDEX($A$1:$A$7,MATCH(K2,INDEX($A$1:$F$7,,MATCH($I$2,A1:F1,0)),-1))[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Hope this helps!
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Thanks so much for looking at this. I had tried changing the outer match to greater than and had no luck... I just found the solution after a painful amount of debugging

I was using Data Validation Lists for my search Value, HP. This was throwing an error because the number was formatted as "Text" in the Data Validation list, and formatted as a "Number" in the lookup list. Thus, error.

Sometimes its the "obvious" stuff :stickouttounge:
 
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