And in this case, since you're matching on text values, I'd assume that you
wanted an exact match.

In general, your =vlookup() formula would look more like:

=vlookup(a1,sheet1!a:b,2,false)

(at least 2 columns (A:B) and bring back the stuff in column B)

so you could ignore the errors with:

=sum(if(iserror(vlookup(a1,sheet1!a:b,2,false)),0, vlookup(a1,sheet1!a:b,2,false)),

if(iserror(vlookup(a1,sheet2!a:b,2,false)),0,vlook up(a1,sheet2!a:b,2,false)))

(all one cell)

Debra Dalgleish's has some notes you may like:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html (for =vlookup())
and
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html (for =index(match()))

AZExcelNewbie wrote:

I get a nice error message... #N/A

=VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet1!A:A,1)+VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet2!A:A,1)

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Just do a simple VLOOKUP(... in first sheet ...)+VLOOKUP(... in second sheet
....)

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"AZExcelNewbie" wrote in message
...
Say I have three worksheets, two of them contain data which holds names.
I
need to sum up a certain persons name as they appear in the two different
worksheets in the third worksheet. How do I go about this? I've tried
using
a SUMPRODUCT with a VLOOKUP, but I can't seem to get it right, PLEASE
HELP!




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