Can't with a formula. Formulas only return values. You would need to use a
macro to FIND, COPY, PASTE SPECIAL

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I am using vlookup to bring over text from File A to File B. File A has
cells highlighted with different fill colors. When I bring over the data,
I
want to bring over the fill color as well and haven't figured out how to
do
that.