Strange Vlookup problem
I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e. January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the month (i.e. 1,2, etc) I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from another worksheet e.g. January. When I do a Vlookup on "January" i get spurious results such as 8 instead of 1 Any idea what's going on here?? Cheers Peter -- peter.thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter.thompson's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29686 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=499270 |
Strange Vlookup problem
1. Use exact match vlookup(lookup,Table,2,false)
2 make sure that there is a match by comparing 2 cells =lookup=cell_that_should_match should return TRUE, the reason can be one is formatted date mmmm returns January and the other is text -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom (No private emails please) "peter.thompson" <peter.thompson.21cogb_1136781302.7192@excelforu m-nospam.com wrote in message news:peter.thompson.21cogb_1136781302.7192@excelfo rum-nospam.com... I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e. January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the month (i.e. 1,2, etc) I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from another worksheet e.g. January. When I do a Vlookup on "January" i get spurious results such as 8 instead of 1 Any idea what's going on here?? Cheers Peter -- peter.thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter.thompson's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29686 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=499270 |
Strange Vlookup problem
The exact match fixed it up ! Thanks Peo Peter -- peter.thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter.thompson's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29686 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=499270 |
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