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I need to join the numbers from 2 cells so that I can use them in a vlookup. When I do a concatenation, then a paste special, values, the vlookup can't use it. Any ideas? Thanks and have... -- OneFineDay |
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Hummm, short on info but perhaps use INDERECT on the concatenation cell in
your VLOOKUP... VLOOKUP(INDERICT(A1),B1:C20,2,0) where A1 has a formula something like this... =D1&E1 HTH Regards, Howard "M Thompson" wrote in message ... Hi I need to join the numbers from 2 cells so that I can use them in a vlookup. When I do a concatenation, then a paste special, values, the vlookup can't use it. Any ideas? Thanks and have... -- OneFineDay |
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Instead of using: =VLOOKUP(A1&B1,...,2,0)
try it as: =VLOOKUP((A1&B1)+0,...,2,0) which coerces the concatenation lookup value to a real number It should work ok now. Success? Click YES button below. -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 Downloads:25,000 Files:370 Subscribers:68 xdemechanik --- "M Thompson" wrote: I need to join the numbers from 2 cells so that I can use them in a vlookup. When I do a concatenation, then a paste special, values, the vlookup can't use it. Any ideas? |
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You can try the concatenation within the formula itself
VLOOKUP(A1&B1,...,) -- If this post helps click Yes --------------- Jacob Skaria "M Thompson" wrote: Hi I need to join the numbers from 2 cells so that I can use them in a vlookup. When I do a concatenation, then a paste special, values, the vlookup can't use it. Any ideas? Thanks and have... -- OneFineDay |
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Max...this worked fantastic! Thanks much. Can you give me some idea how
this forces it to a number? -- OneFineDay "Max" wrote: Instead of using: =VLOOKUP(A1&B1,...,2,0) try it as: =VLOOKUP((A1&B1)+0,...,2,0) which coerces the concatenation lookup value to a real number It should work ok now. Success? Click YES button below. -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 Downloads:25,000 Files:370 Subscribers:68 xdemechanik --- "M Thompson" wrote: I need to join the numbers from 2 cells so that I can use them in a vlookup. When I do a concatenation, then a paste special, values, the vlookup can't use it. Any ideas? |
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"M Thompson" wrote:
Max...this worked fantastic! Thanks much. No prob. Glad that did it for you Can you give me some idea how this forces it to a number? Not exactly sure how, but that's one of the techniques to force text nums to real nums. It "triggers" Excel to do it. You could also do a "multiply by 1" operation instead of an "add zero" calc to achieve the same effect. -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 Downloads:25,000 Files:370 Subscribers:68 xdemechanik --- |
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