Loop vlookup until the good data with a formula in an excel report

Sometimes using 1 vlookup doesn’t give the result I want because I need to check that different conditions are good first. In such situation, I need to loop inside the first vlookup another vlookup and so on until all checks are OK so I can get the correct result.

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When I use the formula ?

Each time I need to validate different conditions to get the correct data.

 

How to use the formula ?

The formula in this topic is with "," so depending of the operating system of your PC, the formula should have ";" instead of ",".

 

How are the formulas ?

=IF()

=VLOOKUP()

The formula for 1 condition in column E:

=IF(VLOOKUP(A2,A:A,1,0)="chocolate",IF(VLOOKUP(C2,C:C,1,0)="candy","good","not good"),"not good")

The formula for 2 conditions in column F:

=IF(VLOOKUP(A2,A:A,1,0)="chocolate",IF(VLOOKUP(C2,C:C,1,0)="candy",IF(VLOOKUP(B2,B:B,1,0)="cake","good","not good"),"not good"),"not good")

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