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I need help with a formula.

I am trying to create an index formula to get back a specific column data but i want to get the latest one.

This is my sheet im referencing. the first column (Plan of Care Cognito ROw ID) is my auto numbering column.

On my original sheet im creating the formula on, i have a "HHAX Admission ID" column. i want to find the row with the same "HHAX Admission ID" and return the "Plan of Care PDF" data. but sometimes the same "HHAX Admission ID" would be on there 2 times so i want to return the latest one based on the auto numbering column

Currently im using a VLOOKUP function of =VLOOKUP([HHAX AdmissionID]@row, {Plan of Care sheet}, 9, false) but i need to change it for these 2 reasons

  1. it doesnt bring back the latest entry
  2. i'd like to change it to an INDEX formula so i can move the rows around and not have to fix the lookup number column

Thank you in advance

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