Return cell information based on today's date

[lucystewart]

Hello,

I am working on a staffing sheet. I have a list of dates in weekly increments going across row 2 (starting at M2 and going on to ZZ2).
And I need a way to retrieve the number in row 54 that corresponds with todays date. The tricky part (to me) is that todays date isn't going to necessarily match the date in row 2. So I need it to pull from the column with a date that has passed.
Meaning:

M N O P​

2 . 8/18/2019 . 8/25/2019 . 9/1/2019 . 9/8/2019
54 20 24 22 18

Today's date is 8/31 so I would need it to return the #24 from cell N54.

I don't know if this can be done with a Vlookup? I don't currently have a =today() in any cell but I could, of course, put it somewhere if that is helpful.

Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
Lucy

 

[lucystewart]

Of course that didnt format right. Let me try this again. Here is the sample data I was trying to provide:

	M	N	O	P
Row 2	8/18/2019	8/25/2019	9/1/2019	9/8/2019
Row 54	20	24	22	18

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[Peter_SSs]

Welcome to the MrExcel board!

Try
=LOOKUP(TODAY(),M2:ZZ2,M54:ZZ54)

Of course that didnt format right.

For the future, have a look at the link in my signature block below for help with that.

 

[lucystewart]

Thank you for your help! That worked perfectly!

 

[Peter_SSs]

You're very welcome. Thanks for the follow-up.