{"id":4651,"date":"2019-09-23T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:52:39","slug":"vlookup-on-multiple-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/vlookup-on-multiple-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"VLOOKUP on Two (or More) Columns in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5b50d6c8-d6c3-4fd7-a650-d9c19693ea34\" href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Vlookup-on-Two-or-More-Columns.xlsx\">Vlookup-on-Two-or-More-Columns<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Vlookup-on-Two-or-More-Columns.xlsx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5b50d6c8-d6c3-4fd7-a650-d9c19693ea34\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, when you use <strong>VLOOKUP<\/strong>,\nyou are going to check a single condition. VLOOKUP can\u2019t use more than one\ncondition until you modify it a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VLOOKUP on a single column<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, we are going to display a ticket price for a movie. Let\u2019s say we choose The Lion King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/single-condition-vlookup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/single-condition-vlookup.png 392w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/single-condition-vlookup-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see the price of the ticket is $6. Let\u2019s create a\nVLOOKUP table to calculate this price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>=VLOOKUP(A9,A2:C6,3,FALSE)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let\u2019s try a different example. This time we are going\nto check the price of the movie that is screened at the particular time. For\nthese reasons, we have to add a second criterion &#8211; time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the next example, the same movies are displayed more than once at different times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/multiple-conditions.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/multiple-conditions.png 392w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/multiple-conditions-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if you ran a similar formula, you are going to get the\nfirst value (from $6, and $8.5) which is $6. Excel looks for the first matching\ncriterion and returns it as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VLOOKUP on two or more columns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is &#8211; how to use VLOOKUP based on two criteria, instead\nof one? Probably you\u2019ve checked other tutorials that use <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/concatenate-vs-ampersand\/\">concatenate<\/a> operator\nand approximate match. It\u2019s a quite simple method, unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m going to show you a way you can achieve this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this method, you are going to use a helper column. In\nthis column, all values from the <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/get-the-current-row-using-vba\/\">current row<\/a> (instead of the last cell) are\ngoing to be concatenated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In column <strong>A2<\/strong> insert this formula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>=B2&amp;C2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/training\/filling-cells\/\">Fill the rest of the cells<\/a> for the current table column (<strong>A1:A6<\/strong>) and also for cell <strong>A9<\/strong>. This is how it should look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/helper-column.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/helper-column.png 580w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/helper-column-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Column A is now our lookup column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The values from column B and C are merged (with time <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/en\/training\/how-excel-stores-date-and-time\">converted\nto numbers<\/a>). You can <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/hide-or-unhide-rows-or-columns\/\">hide column<\/a> A, so the table looks cleaner. But if you\ndo it, you have to remember to fill any additional cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also do it for <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/select-multiple-columns-in-excel\/\">multiple columns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, when you use VLOOKUP, you are going to check a single condition. VLOOKUP can\u2019t use more than one condition until you modify&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[170],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VLOOKUP on Two (or More) Columns in Excel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to use VLOOKUP with multiple criteria in Excel. Check the price of a movie depending on its name and screening time. 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