Hi Jim - got my answer from the knowledge base (Use Paste
Special with Multiply).
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!!



-----Original Message-----
Wierd...

Are the items you are looking up numeric. If so it is
possible that when you
copy and paste data that the strings are changed to
values. Check to see if
the cells are numbers or not by formatting them as
dollars. if they won't
format they are strings. Vlookup is the formula you
want, but it will crash
if you are trying to match 12345 with "12345".

Data output from a system sometimes comes into
spreadsheets as strings by
default instead of numbers. If this is the problem there
are a couple of easy
fixes. Let me know...

"Jodi" wrote:

Jim,
I did a replace of any/all blanks (up to 4 spaces) and
the
vlookup still returns a #N/A. The problem I have with
this is that I took the original sheet & copied to the
Inventory & Changes. I made no changes to either, and
am
attempting the exact same thing on both, but it only
works
on one!
Is there some kind of formula that will look up from
one
sheet to the other & populate the next few cells?
Thanks - Jodi


-----Original Message-----
The info that comes in the report I assume is a dump
out
of some accounting
system or another. Quite often when data is dumped out
it
will have trailing
blank characters. Vlookup will not find exact matches
because of the trailing
blanks. Do a find and replace on the blank, replacing
with nothing. Vlookup
won't match "Dog" in one cell with "Dog " in
another...

If you need to maintain some blank characters in the
middle of the strings
then you will need to write a quick little macro that
Trims the blanks from
the end. This can also be useful if this is something
that you will need to
do on a regular basis... I fyou need help with
something
like this post a
reply.

Hope this works for you...

"Jodi" wrote:

I have a report that gets updated monthly. Some info
comes
in the report, the rest I have to put in.

I take my original report and copy it to two
worksheets
within the workbook (Original, Changes, Inventory).
On
one sheet (Inventory), I can vlookup information
from
the
previous month's report, and it fills it in.
Vlookup
doesn't work on the other sheet (Changes), even
though
there are no formatting differences, using same
report
from previous month.

Col a = company number
col's b-h need to be filled in identically to all
other
months based on the company number (column mapping
is
the
same).
Is there an IF function that would do this ? Or why
will
vlookup work on the other sheet & not this one?


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