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


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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

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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


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The exact match fixed it up !

Thanks Peo

Peter


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