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Is there any way of getting around alphabetizing the first column in a
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What exactly do you mean?

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Is there any way of getting around alphabetizing the first column in a
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Set Range_Lookup to False. Then it will either find an exact match or
return "N/A".

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Is there any way of getting around alphabetizing the first column in a
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No need to sort ascending the first column of your lookup
table if you specify "exact match" in your VLOOKUP
formula. Use "0" or FALSE in the fourth argument:

=VLOOKUP(---,---,---,0)

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