our report writer returns numbers in general format however initially each
cell has an Excel "error" note (green triangle in top left corner) to say the
numbers in the cell are formatted as text or preceded by an apostrophe.
VLOOKUP won't work until this "error" is cleared. I can clear it by pressing
F2 and Enter within each cell and then VLOOKUP works fine but is there a
quicker or automated way to do this as it gets to be a pain when you have
2000 rows of data.

thanks
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Pauline Warner