I believe he meant that if the 4th argument is FALSE you won't need any
sorting


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Peo Sjoblom


"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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Hi RagDyeR,

I'm sure you're right. I just fail to see the typo! Please help.

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Niek Otten

Microsoft MVP - Excel

"RagDyeR" wrote in message
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Typo Niek:

<<"And, with the 4th argument as FALSE, the table (Column A) has to be
sorted
ascending"

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"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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Hi Alan,

Are both items numeric or text? Check this with =ISTEXT or ISNUMBER,
even
if they look the same.
And, with the 4th argument as FALSE, the table (Column A) has to be
sorted
ascending.

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Niek Otten

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"Alan" wrote in message
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Bob
Sorry already tried that ...
HAve used VLOOKUP before and this has me stumped !

Thanks anyways ... open to other suggestions

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Alan,

Check that the lookup value and the unique ids are exactly the same. On
a
matching item, do a LEN(C3) and LEN(Ax) to see that there are no
extraneous
spaces in there.

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"Alan" wrote in message
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I have a Workbook with multiple sheets.... On one sheet I have a
unique
identifier which provides me with certain information and have
acquired
another which gives me more, but also has the same unique
identifier...

I wish to import this into the one sheet for reference, however this
is
not
performing as expected.

THe sheet I am trying to copy from has 2 columns of data column 1
being
the
unique index and column 2 being the data to be copied

I have used a VLOOKUP function on the main page viz:
=VLOOKUP(C3,WorkNo!A2:B8200,2,FALSE) where C3 is the location of the
unique
index in the main sheet.


I am however getting the error "Value not available" although doing
an
individual find on the other sheet finds it is there ???

Any help greatfully appreciated

Alan