Multiple-column based lookups in Excel

Question

        A     B    C
    1 PROD1 TYPE1 VAL1
    2 PROD2 TYPE1 VAL2
    3 PROD1 TYPE2 VAL3
    4 PROD2 TYPE3 VAL2 

In an empty cell I want to get th

Answer 1

Have a look at using the DGET Excel function.

Set

• A1 = ProdType
• B1 = Type
• C1 = Val

Then your provided data in A2:C5

Then

• H1 = ProdType
• I1 = Type
• H2 = =PROD2 (Criteria 1)
• I2 = =TYPE3 (Criteria 2)

And lastly, in H3:

=DGET(A1:C5,"Val",H1:I2)

That should get the value for you.

Answer 2

An improvement on the solution by Dick Kusleika for the case when the output column does not contain numbers is

=INDEX(C:C,SUMPRODUCT((A:A="PROD2")*(B:B="TYPE3")*ROW(C:C)),0)

Taken from here.

See also this answer.

Answer 3

=SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$A$4="PROD2")*($B$1:$B$4="TYPE3")*($C$1:$C$4))

This assumes that column C values are actually numbers and not text.