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limit lookup search to left three places
I need to do a look up based on the first three places in the reference cell
a1 is cda1428a I want the vlookup to return the data based on the cda only. How do you do this? |
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limit lookup search to left three places
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=VLOOKUP(LEFT(A1,3),B1:C25,2,0) -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "roger" wrote in message ... I need to do a look up based on the first three places in the reference cell a1 is cda1428a I want the vlookup to return the data based on the cda only. How do you do this? |
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