multiple vlookup

[choice]

i have range(a1:j1000)
columns A,C,E,G,I are phone numbers
columns B,D,F,H,J are serial numbers

i need a vlookup function that lookups up the phone number then returns the
serial number. my problem is that if the phone number being looked up is in
column C it returns #N/A
i am thinkin maybe a couple if functions, but im not sure

thanks in advance

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
any chance to reorder your data in two columns. Everything else would
make the formulas much more complicated

 

[Domenic]

There may be a better way, but assuming that the first row contains you
labels and your data starts in the second row, try the following...

=INDEX(A2:J1000,SUMPRODUCT((A2:J1000=L2)*ROW(A2:J1000))-CELL("row",A1),SUMPRODUCT((A2:J1000=L2)*COLUMN(A2:J1000))+1)

...where L2 contains the phone number of interest.

Hope this helps