Hi Criss,

Am Sun, 11 Oct 2015 03:07:34 +0100 schrieb smim:

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VLOOKUP looks from left to the right. You are looking in column B and
want an output from column A. You have to use a INDEX/MATCH combination:
=IFERROR(INDEX(Data2!A:A,MATCH(A2,Data2!$B$1:$B$20 0,0)),"")


Regards
Claus B.
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