NOW() is a volatile function.

You can never match NOW() to a static value.

12:15 will only be valid for a millisecond.........or less, I would
imagine.

Seeing it as 12:15 is a formatting display only

For help on how Excel stores dates and times see Chip Pearson's site.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#SerialDates


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:43:33 +0100, mickeygib
wrote:


I have an issue with a table containing text data showing a time in the
format 00:00, 12:15 etc. I want to display some text that relates to the
current time and have used NOW() to display the time in the same format
(12:15 eg)

When I vlookup the NOW() value, it fails to match it to the text.

They look exactly the same, and I assumes that would be enough.

Is there any way to do it? Am I just being dumb?

Thanks in advance for any help.