» Retrieving File Name by Matching a Given Page Number in a Book
CATEGORY - Lookup Formulas
VERSION - All Microsoft Excel Versions
Problem: The typed manuscript of a book was divided into five files.
Columns B & C contain the numbers of the first and last page included in each of the files.
We want to retrieve the file name corresponding to each page number listed in column E.
Solution:
Use the INDEX and MATCH functions as shown in the following formula:
=INDEX($A$2:$A$6,MATCH(E2,$B$2:$B$6))
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