In the previous post, we talked that how to lookup value and then returns entire rows of a matched value in a range. And this post will guide you how to lookup value and then return the entire column of the first matched value in a range in excel. How to use INDEX/MATCH to lookup entire column and retrieve the entire row.

Lookup Entire Column

If you want to lookup value in a range and then retrieve the entire Column, you can use a combination of the INDEX function and the MATCH function to create a new excel formula.

For example, if you want to search “Sep” string in the range B1:D1, then return the entire column of a matched value in the range B2:D5, you can write down the following array formula:

=INDEX(B2:D5,0,MATCH("Sep",B1:D1,0))

Let’s see how this formula works:

=MATCH(“Sep”,B1:D1,0)

The MATCH function returns the position of the lookup value “Sep” in the range B2:D1. The third argument is set to 0, it means that the MATCH function will search the first lookup value exactly.

=INDEX(B2:D5,0,MATCH(“Sep”,B1:D1,0))

The second argument is specified to 0 in the INDEX function, it means that the row number is set to 0, it will return all the values in the entire column and the position number of column is returned by the MATCH function. So this formula returns the values of the COLUMN 2 in the range B2:D5.

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