On Sep 15, 10:42*am, mae_bear22
wrote:
Hi

I have a spreadsheet that goes as follows. *Column A is Salesperson's name
and Column B is Achevied Sales Target (Yes or No). *Column A gets it data
from anothr spreadsheet using a VLOOKUP table, hence each value is preceded
with a ' sign. * C

I am using SUMPRODUCT to count the number of times a salesperson in A has
hit the target in B. *The formula is as follows:

=SUMPRODUCT((I2:I22="YES")*(J2:J22="JOE"))

This only works if I retype "JOE" in the cell as text, deleting the v-lookup
formula. *Obviously this is tedious and defeats the purpose of the vlookup. *

Is there a way to correct my formula OR use a new formula?

Thanks!

Steph

Steph-
Do you know why your Vlookup function is returning the salesperson's
name with the preceding tick (') mark in front of it? Does the source
data contain a tick?