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Help needed with lookup tables..
posted on behalf of a friend..so sorry if any mistakes..
was wondering if you could post this on to a excel forum.. its driving me round the bend and i cant manually do it this time becasue the spreadsheet this is from has 64000 rows and i cant go through each one. right i will try and explain this the best i can.. 1) I have a lookup table which has BL_NO's in one cell and the month in the cell next to it. e.g 781900109 SEP 2) i have a spreadsheet which has 64000 rows with bill numbers being in the first column. 3) I have done a VLOOKUP to search for the bill numbers in my lookup table with a purpose of putting the corresponding month in the month column in my main data sheet. (as below). 4) however when i copy and paste the formula down the entire spreadsheet, every row comes up with N/A (as below). 5) however i know that the bills in the lookup table are in the spreadsheet so it should give me the month of "sep" in the month column for the bills in question, but it doesnt. 6) BUT when i search for the bill numbers in the main spreadsheet and double click the cell with the bill number in, it then changes the month from N/A to Sep. 7) why does double clicking the lookup value cell enable the formula to work. 8) this is the lookup formula i am using: =VLOOKUP(A49480,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$103,2,0) 9) theres no way i can go through 64000 rows and double click each lookup values. screenshot can be seen here - http://romseylionsclub.hampshire.org.uk/screenshot.jpg please help. |
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Help needed with lookup tables..
It sounds like the calc mode's accidentally set to Manual.
Click Tools Options Calculation tab Ensure Automatic is checked OK -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "Stuart Maclean" wrote: posted on behalf of a friend..so sorry if any mistakes.. was wondering if you could post this on to a excel forum.. its driving me round the bend and i cant manually do it this time becasue the spreadsheet this is from has 64000 rows and i cant go through each one. right i will try and explain this the best i can.. 1) I have a lookup table which has BL_NO's in one cell and the month in the cell next to it. e.g 781900109 SEP 2) i have a spreadsheet which has 64000 rows with bill numbers being in the first column. 3) I have done a VLOOKUP to search for the bill numbers in my lookup table with a purpose of putting the corresponding month in the month column in my main data sheet. (as below). 4) however when i copy and paste the formula down the entire spreadsheet, every row comes up with N/A (as below). 5) however i know that the bills in the lookup table are in the spreadsheet so it should give me the month of "sep" in the month column for the bills in question, but it doesnt. 6) BUT when i search for the bill numbers in the main spreadsheet and double click the cell with the bill number in, it then changes the month from N/A to Sep. 7) why does double clicking the lookup value cell enable the formula to work. 8) this is the lookup formula i am using: =VLOOKUP(A49480,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$103,2,0) 9) theres no way i can go through 64000 rows and double click each lookup values. screenshot can be seen here - http://romseylionsclub.hampshire.org.uk/screenshot.jpg please help. |
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Help needed with lookup tables..
hi there apparently that didn't solve the problem - any other thoughts..
many Thanks for your help!! "Max" wrote: It sounds like the calc mode's accidentally set to Manual. Click Tools Options Calculation tab Ensure Automatic is checked OK -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "Stuart Maclean" wrote: posted on behalf of a friend..so sorry if any mistakes.. was wondering if you could post this on to a excel forum.. its driving me round the bend and i cant manually do it this time becasue the spreadsheet this is from has 64000 rows and i cant go through each one. right i will try and explain this the best i can.. 1) I have a lookup table which has BL_NO's in one cell and the month in the cell next to it. e.g 781900109 SEP 2) i have a spreadsheet which has 64000 rows with bill numbers being in the first column. 3) I have done a VLOOKUP to search for the bill numbers in my lookup table with a purpose of putting the corresponding month in the month column in my main data sheet. (as below). 4) however when i copy and paste the formula down the entire spreadsheet, every row comes up with N/A (as below). 5) however i know that the bills in the lookup table are in the spreadsheet so it should give me the month of "sep" in the month column for the bills in question, but it doesnt. 6) BUT when i search for the bill numbers in the main spreadsheet and double click the cell with the bill number in, it then changes the month from N/A to Sep. 7) why does double clicking the lookup value cell enable the formula to work. 8) this is the lookup formula i am using: =VLOOKUP(A49480,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$103,2,0) 9) theres no way i can go through 64000 rows and double click each lookup values. screenshot can be seen here - http://romseylionsclub.hampshire.org.uk/screenshot.jpg please help. |
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Help needed with lookup tables..
Sorry, think I misread it earlier
Try using a little coercion on the lookup value: =VLOOKUP(A49480+0,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$103,2,0) The "+0" will coerce text number to a real number for correct matching -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "Stuart Maclean" wrote: hi there apparently that didn't solve the problem - any other thoughts.. many Thanks for your help!! |
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Help needed with lookup tables..
Excellent - apparently that worked.. thanks for your help on this one...
Regards Stuart "Max" wrote: Sorry, think I misread it earlier Try using a little coercion on the lookup value: =VLOOKUP(A49480+0,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$103,2,0) The "+0" will coerce text number to a real number for correct matching -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "Stuart Maclean" wrote: hi there apparently that didn't solve the problem - any other thoughts.. many Thanks for your help!! |
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Help needed with lookup tables..
Great to hear that.
Thanks for feeding back -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- "Stuart Maclean" wrote in message ... Excellent - apparently that worked.. thanks for your help on this one... Regards Stuart |
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