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Franz Verga
 
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Default Overcome LOOKUP limits and NOW()

edwardpestian wrote:
So what am I doing wrong here?

The first example using LOOKUP works as expected; however the second
example using VLOOKUP does not

="Good"&"
"&LOOKUP(MOD(NOW(),1),{0,0.5,0.75},{"Morning","Aft ernoon","Evening"})&"
"&"Today Is"&" "&TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm dd, yyyy")

="Good"&"
"&VLOOKUP(MOD(NOW(),1),{0,"Morning";0.5,"Afternoon ";0.75,"Evening"},2,0)&"
"&"Today Is"&" "&TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm dd, yyyy")


In this case the last parameter of VLOOKUP should be 1, so try this way:

="Good"&" "
&VLOOKUP(MOD(NOW(),1),{0,"Morning";0.5,"Afternoon" ;0.75,"Evening"},2,1)&" "
&"Today Is"&" "&TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm dd, yyyy")



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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)

Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy