{"id":3292,"date":"2021-11-03T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3292"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:12:03","slug":"excel-sorting-problem-with-vlookup-results","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/excel-sorting-problem-with-vlookup-results\/16552.html","title":{"rendered":"Excel Sorting Problem With VLOOKUP Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>\nI seem to be running into a little (alright, maybe not so little for me) problem with my database in Excel.<\/p>\n<p>I have the following general setup;<br \/>\nPage1 holds a &#8216;master list&#8217; of data. Nice little rows of everything i need to have on file for each object in the list.<br \/>\nOn Page2 i have a cozy family of VLOOKUP functions, which grab several of the colums of Page1 for every line, giving me sertain cets of attributed i can print into comprehendable lists.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER;<br \/>\nPage1 is sorted, for convenience, by column a, in ascending order.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;d like Page2 to sort itself by column b, in descending order.<br \/>\nHowever, since there are a few dozen &#8217;empty&#8217; cells (Holding a VLOOKUP that does not find anything to report.), these cells drift to the top of my descending list, pushing the data I actually need from view.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, my knowledge of the finer workings of Excel is, -ahem-, somewhat limited, so if there&#8217;s anyone there who is now going; &#8220;Dude, just do *solution*!&#8221; I&#8217;d rather appreciate him or her speaking up.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\n-Roland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}