Can't confirm the limitation, but can you lookup left(a1,10) or something
that returns and looks up only the first X values?
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Anne Troy
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"Cordell" wrote in message
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I'm trying to look up lookup up some lengthy text values in a table. I'm
getting #VALUE! error messages when my lookup up text value is 255
characters. This appears to be an Excel limitation.

Can anyone confirm this and offer a potential alternative?

Thanks,


Cordell