You can use =concatenate to make those two columns one and then do your vlookup.Can you type up a little example of what you're looking for?
Bonds Barry bondba01In order to get the ID (bondba01), I have a VLOOKUP formula looking up Bonds. But, it could also bring up his father. It doesn't because Barry is first alphabetically but for other players this isn't the case. I need it to look up the first two columns so I can get the third.bondba01 2002 35Then, in another column, I need another VLOOKUP formula to use the data from the third (bondba01) along with the year (2002) to get the Win Shares (35).Make sense?
So if I got this right you have two spreadsheets:1. The first spreadhsheet has three columns, one with the last name, one with first name and one with the ID. Bonds | Barry | bondba012. The second spreadsheet has the ID, year and win shares.bondba01 | 2002 | 35If that's what you've got then I'd just concatenate the two name columns together on sheet1 =concatenate(cell1," ",cell2). Then I'd do a vlookup on sheet2 looking at player id and pulling back the name.