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Default Vlookup Limitations

The max length of the string is 255.


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"Steph" wrote in message
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Hi all. Does anyone know if there are character limitations on
Vlookup or Sumif formulas? I have a file where the cell I am
looking up is quite long. And I seem to recall a while back
that vlookup only reads the first x characters in the lookup
cell. Is this true? Thanks for youe help!