How to look up a value and return the cell above or below in Excel?
In Excel, we use VLOOKUP function to find a specific value from a range data, but do you know how to look up a value and then return its above or below values? Actually, you can use INDEX function to handle it.
Look up a value and return the cell above or below
Look up a value and return the cell above or below
Look up a value and return cell above
Select a blank cell that you want to place the return value, and type this formula =INDEX(A1:A8,MATCH(D1,A1:A8,0)-1,1), press Enter key to return the value. See screenshot:
Look up a value and return cell below
Select a blank cell that you want to place the return value, and type this formula =INDEX(A1:A8,MATCH(D1,A1:A8,0)+1,1), press Enter key to get the result. See screenshot:
If you want to look up for a value and return below and the 3 cells to the right of the reference, you can apply this formula =INDEX(F1:H8,MATCH(K1,F1:F8,0)+1,3).
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