Sorry Julien
I totally misread your posting.
Ignore my response

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Roger Govier

"Julien Bouvier" wrote in message
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Are you suggesting I should use a pivot table instead of an ordinary
table?

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Julien

I take it you are using XL2007.

The same syntax does not apply to Pivot Tables, as it does to Tables.
Tale a look at the GetPivotdData function.

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Roger Govier

"Julien Bouvier" wrote in
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Hi, I am trying to use VLOOKUP to find data in a table named:
PartsTable.
I
want to reference the column using a structured reference. I want to
look
in
column 4, which is the Weight column:

this works fine: VLOOKUP(//a part number//,PartsTable,4,FALSE)

this wont work: VLOOKUP(//a part
number//,PartsTable,PartsTable[Weight],FALSE)

it returns #VALUE! and the VLOOKUP is on the same sheet as the
PartsTable

I find it strange that this doesnt work as the automatic filling tool
shows
all column headers when I write "PartsTable[". The syntax seems quite
logical. Thank you for your help!