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Given a two-dimensional table with row and column headers, like this:

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What is the formula to return the value at the intersection of a particular row and column? For example, I want a formula that would take "Blue" and 180 and return $2.20 in this case.

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=INDEX($C$4:$E$9,MATCH(180,$B$4:$B$9,0),MATCH("Blue",$C$3:$E$3,0))

returns $2.20.

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Thanks! By naming the column headers "ColHeaders", the row headers "RowHeaders", and the data area "Data", I was able to write this as =INDEX(Data,MATCH(180,RowHeaders,0),MATCH("Blue",ColHeaders,0)) – Joel Spolsky♦ Jul 28 '11 at 18:19
Important to remember the non-optional third argument to MATCH which must be 0 for an exact match – Joel Spolsky♦ Jul 28 '11 at 18:20
@Joel Spolsky: You're more than welcome. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Jul 28 '11 at 19:14

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