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Find the last value of a matching row above in Google Spreadsheets


I have a table of items that tracks the price over time. When I add a new row to the table, and the item name already exists within the table, I would like to retrieve the most recent "new price", and store it in the "prev price" column.

Item Date Prev Price New Price
apple 2023/01/01 1 2
banana 2023/01/01 1 2
apple 2023/02/01 2 3
banana 2023/02/01 2 3
apple 2023/03/01 3 4
banana 2023/03/01 3 4
apple 2023/04/01 (should pull 4) 5

In the above example, when "apple" is entered into A8, it should look back and find "apple" at A6, then populate C8 with the value from D6.


Solution

  • You can use XLOOKUP with search_mode=-1

    =XLOOKUP(A8,A$2:A7,D$2:D7,,,-1)