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I have a spreadsheet made up of several individual sheets: one sheet for each category of product and one sheet designed to be a "global view." In each sheet is a 3-column range of variable length with the headings "Name", "Status", "Material type". These ranges are named so that I can refer to them easily. Something like this:

Rangename = "Portnoy"

       [D]         [E]              [F]
[1]    **Name**    **Status**        **Material Type**
[2]    Portnoy     Pending           Other 
[3]    Sinclair    Complete          Case
[4]    Jeffries    Pending           Other
[5]    Davis       Complete          Case

On another sheet, I would like to mirror only those cells under the headings **Name** and **Status** whose material type is case. I can sort of make this work using VLOOKUP, but I've only gotten so far as making it work for one individual cell; I can't make it so both the name and status appear in adjacent cells, and I definitely can't get it to spit out the entire range. Ideally results would look like this, generated with one function:

Sinclair    Pending
Davis       Complete

The goal is to have a global view whose statuses will update dynamically. I know that ARRAYFUNCTION has a role to play here, but I'm stymied. All suggestions are appreciated!

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  • Can you share a doc with us?
    – Jacob Jan
    Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 20:48

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This is exactly the job of the QUERY command:

=QUERY(Sheet1!D:F, "select D,E where F='Case'")

returns

Sinclair    Complete
Davis       Complete

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