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Formula problems
When using formulas such as VLOOKUP or SUMIF on a spreadsheet we assume has
been exported from an Access database Excel only seems to read so many characters of the data it is doing the look up on so even though codes are unique the first few character may be the same so we are not getting true results. Is there a way around this? We have tried copying & pasting as values etc with no effect Thanks |
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Formula problems
Try adding the "FALSE" option to your VLOOKUP formulas, as...
=VLOOKUP(A1,MyRange,2,FALSE) hth Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Sharon A" wrote: When using formulas such as VLOOKUP or SUMIF on a spreadsheet we assume has been exported from an Access database Excel only seems to read so many characters of the data it is doing the look up on so even though codes are unique the first few character may be the same so we are not getting true results. Is there a way around this? We have tried copying & pasting as values etc with no effect Thanks |
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Thanks for that, my MD has just used it & it does the job.
"CLR" wrote: Try adding the "FALSE" option to your VLOOKUP formulas, as... =VLOOKUP(A1,MyRange,2,FALSE) hth Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Sharon A" wrote: When using formulas such as VLOOKUP or SUMIF on a spreadsheet we assume has been exported from an Access database Excel only seems to read so many characters of the data it is doing the look up on so even though codes are unique the first few character may be the same so we are not getting true results. Is there a way around this? We have tried copying & pasting as values etc with no effect Thanks |
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