How to locate a cell and return value of neighbour cell

Question

Hi, I have a table containing data pairs in columns like [Title] [Value]. The table has multiple columns resulting in a table like this:
Title
Value
Title
Value
Title
Value
Apples
100
Bread
120
Pork
90
Melons
120
Pancake
150
Beef
160
Peaches
110
Pie
55
Fish
100
In a different table, I want to enter a title and get the value next to it returned. E.g. I enter "Pancake" in column A and get "150" in column B.
I tried using Lookup but it doesn't support multi-column searches so I would have to create IF-chains for the pairs of columns.
The best way I could think of is to locate the address of the title cell and use Offset. Does anyone know a solution for this?

Answer 1

More on "you can have both..."
Here's an exmple that preserves your original table layout (in "Main"), uses it to generate an Auxiliary table ("Aux"), thenuses that table as a lookup table for VLOOKUP:
Formulas:
The complicated ones are in the Aux table:
A2: =IF(ROW()-1<=COUNTA(Main :: A),OFFSET(Main :: $A$1,ROW()-1,0),IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),OFFSET(Main :: $C$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A)),0),IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C,Main :: E)),OFFSET(Main :: $E$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),0),"over")))
Fill down to the end of column A.
Separated for clarity:
=IF(ROW()-1<=COUNTA(Main :: A),OFFSET(Main :: $A$1,ROW()-1,0),
  IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),OFFSET(Main :: $C$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A)),0),
  IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C,Main :: E)),OFFSET(Main :: $E$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),0),
  "over")))
B2: =IF(ROW()-1<=COUNTA(Main :: A),OFFSET(Main :: $A$1,ROW()-1,1),IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),OFFSET(Main :: $C$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A)),1),IF(ROW()-1<=(COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C,Main :: E)),OFFSET(Main :: $E$1,ROW()-(1+COUNTA(Main :: A,Main :: C)),1),"over")))
Fill down to the end of column B.
Note that this is the same formula as used in Column A, with only the three zeros in OFFSET changed to ones.
Summary table:
B2, and filled down to end of column B: =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A,Aux :: A:B,2,0),"nf")
Regards,
Barry