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Software ==>	Excel (113 exercises)
Topic ==>	Advanced lookup functions (4 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Excel training

Using MATCH and INDEX to lookup flight times by destination and weekday

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We want to look up flight times from the flights timetable:

We will use the =INDEX lookup function with a nested =MATCH.

When we select the departure airport in cell K3 and the travel day in cell K4, we want Excel to look up and display the correct flight time in cell K9:

Time for some range names first!

Set up the following range names:

Range name	Cell(s)
Airport	K3
Flight_Day	K4
Airport_Pos_Num	K6
Timetable	B4:H19
Week_days	B3:H3

In cell K9 start off with an =INDEX formula that finds the flight time for a flight from Dover (position number 8) on a Wednesday (position number 3). So the formula would be:

=INDEX(timetable,8,3)

We can now use an =MATCH in cells K6 and K7 to find the position numbers for the airport and day of the week. Change the airport to Leeds and the day to Fri: