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Jennifer Cali Jennifer Cali is offline
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Default VLOOKUP always returning the same value!

Never-mind. Found it. Under OPTIONS, I changed the CALCULATION to be
AUTOMATIC.
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Thank you! - Jennifer


"Jennifer Cali" wrote:

Ok, I *think* I have it working based on something in the attachment. I hit
the F9 key per email link below, and the cells calculated. I researched the
F9 key and found this: Press F9 Calculates formulas that have changed since
the last calculation, and formulas dependent on them, in all open workbooks.
If a workbook is set for automatic calculation, you do not need to press F9
for calculation.

Based on this reasoning, I'm assuming that I've somehow SHUT OFF the
automatic calculation button. How do I turn it back on?

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Thank you! - Jennifer


"JP" wrote:

I'd follow Tyro's suggestion and post some real sample data, along
with the formula you are actually using.

Regarding the "Calculate" message, it's difficult to debug what's
going on because we have no way to tell what your worksheet
environment looks like. If you have too many formulas (esp array
formulas), other design elements, fonts, etc that message can remain
permanently.

Check out this KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243495


HTH,
JP

On Mar 10, 11:22 pm, Jennifer Cali
wrote:
Yep, I'm definitely including the FALSE.

The other *odd* thing I see is even AFTER the cells caluculate, the workbook
continues to say "CALCULATE" in the bottom left corner. Thoughts?

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Thank you! - Jennifer



"JP" wrote:
Are you using FALSE as the last argument of VLOOKUP? That would ensure
that only an exact match is found. For example

=VLOOKUP("Sam",A1:C100,3,FALSE)

Assuming your data was in A1:C100.

HTH,
JP

On Mar 10, 11:09 pm, Jennifer Cali
wrote:
Sorry, the example was the problem I'm having. Sally has a different number
than Sam who has a different number than Tara.
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Thank you! - Jennifer

"JP" wrote:
Just based on your sample, the phone numbers are all the same, so that
might explain why a VLOOKUP on Sam and Sally would appear to return
only Sam's phone number.

HTH,
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