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In Google Sheets, how can I find the value in a column of a row when you know the lookup column name

Time:10-02

I have a Sheet1 with data like this:

one two three four
a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
m n o p

I have Sheet2 with data like this:

alpha value
c
k
g
c

For each row in Sheet2, I want to look up Sheet2.alpha in Sheet1.three and return the value of Sheet1.one. I want to do this by putting an array formula in B2.

So, the expected result is:

alpha value
c a
k i
g e
c a

I can use the new Google Sheet formulas they just released -- except named ranges. I feel like there is some clever trick using them, but I can't come up with it.

Edit: In this example I am checking against Sheet1.three and returning Sheet1.one but I need it to be flexible in that I can lookup and return against any column based on the column heading.

CodePudding user response:

BYROW() and XLOOKUP() are your friend in this case.

=BYROW(A2:INDEX(A2:A,COUNTA(A2:A)),LAMBDA(x,XLOOKUP(x,Sheet1!C2:C,Sheet1!A2:A,"Not Found")))

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