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crafty_girl
 
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Default Vlookup referencing one column that contains part numbers in both.

I'm seeing LOTS of posts that are close to this issue, but nothing quite the
same.

I'm using VLOOKUP to look at a part number column that's being imported. It
all comes across in text format b/c some part numbers are alphanumeric (ex:
6H) and some are numeric (ex: 30). Nothing I've seen so far addresses the
issue b/c if I change the entire column to text I get #N/A back for cells in
the column that should show a number in them, (ex:30). If I change the entire
column to numeric format I get the same for cells that contain alphanumeric
data (ex: 6H).

Does anyone know of a solution that might address, seeing how there are two
different types of data formats in the same column being referenced?!!