Vlookup on same column

[Giancar]

Hi everyone,

I have a table similar to the following one, but contains thousands of rows.

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Country[/TD]
[TD]ID[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Brazil[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Belgium[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Russia[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Russia[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Belgium[/TD]
[TD]300[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Brazil[/TD]
[TD]200[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Each cell in column A has a Sale ID in Column B, but some of them are empty (in column B). I would need a formula in B1 that vlookup value in column A, returning column B value.
I tried the following:
=VLOOKUP(A2,A:B,2,0)
=VLOOKUP(A:A,A:B,2,0)
and some more, but it gives me error.

The aim of this formula is that I want to fill the first part of column B.

Any help?
Thanks

 

[lrobbo314]

You will need to adjust the ranges in the formula, but this works on the sample data you provided.

Select column B. Hit F5. Click 'Special', then select 'Blanks'. Enter the formula, then hold Control and hit Enter.

=LOOKUP(2,1/SEARCH($A$2:$A$7,A2),$B$2:$B$7)

 

[jouno]

For that, I had

=VLOOKUP(A1,'worksheetfilepath'!$A$1:$B$numberofrows, 2, FALSE)

Where worksheetfilepath is your source document, and number of rows is however many are in your list.
Although I have only used that when numbers are in the first column, not text.

 

[Giancar]

You will need to adjust the ranges in the formula, but this works on the sample data you provided.

Select column B. Hit F5. Click 'Special', then select 'Blanks'. Enter the formula, then hold Control and hit Enter.

=LOOKUP(2,1/SEARCH($A$2:$A$7,A2),$B$2:$B$7)

Hi,

I do not understand what do you mean by hit F5 and click special....what kind of window should I open?
Formula looks good, but I can not apply it.

Thanks