Hugh,

Change the first argument of your VLOOKUP to convert the string to a number:

=VLOOKUP (VALUE( ), ........)

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Hugh self taught" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I'm trying to do a vlookup from one worksheet to another. The one sheet is
an export from an Access database & the lookup column is numbers but the
Access field is text. That was done for a possible eventuality in the
database.

My problem is that unless I add the label ' into the cell the lookup doesn't
work. How do I get around that?

Cheers
Hugh