The carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) test measures the amount of this protein that may appear in the blood of some people who have certain kinds of cancers, especially cancer of the large intestine (colon and rectal cancer).
In this INDEX / MATCH example, the MATCH function will find the position of Jacket in column B, and the INDEX function will return the code from the same position in column A. Set up the worksheet as shown at right. Enter the following formula in cell B6: =INDEX($A$2:$A$4,MATCH(A6,$B$2:$B$4,0))
4 Answers 4. One solution is to use INDEX and MATCH rather than VLOOKUP. This is more robust and arguably clearer,e.g. use this formula copied across. That formula matches in col A and returns a value from col B as does your VLOOKUP, but when you copy across that changes.