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I need to create a report (from multiple workbooks) of activities that are to
occur "today" from a list of dates (Column A)and events (Column B). but the
dates might not be in ascending order and some cells in Column A may not
contain a date. There is one such "table" in each workbook. The report
would look like this:
Today's Date
Workbook1 Empty trash
Workbook2 (blank) because there is nothing to be done today
Workbook3 Cook dinner
Is this possible?
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Jason Morin
 
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When you set VLOOKUP to find an exact match, your data
doesn't need to be sorted. Set the 4th argument to 0.

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

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Jason
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I need to create a report (from multiple workbooks) of

activities that are to
occur "today" from a list of dates (Column A)and events

(Column B). but the
dates might not be in ascending order and some cells in

Column A may not
contain a date. There is one such "table" in each

workbook. The report
would look like this:
Today's Date
Workbook1 Empty trash
Workbook2 (blank) because there is nothing to be

done today
Workbook3 Cook dinner
Is this possible?
.

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Arvi Laanemets
 
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Hi

To avoid an error when there is nothin found:
=IF(ISERRROR(VLOOKUP(...,...,...,0)),"",VLOOKUP(.. .,...,...,0))
or
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(...,...,...,0)),"",VLOOKUP(...,.. .,...,0))

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I need to create a report (from multiple workbooks) of activities that are

to
occur "today" from a list of dates (Column A)and events (Column B). but

the
dates might not be in ascending order and some cells in Column A may not
contain a date. There is one such "table" in each workbook. The report
would look like this:
Today's Date
Workbook1 Empty trash
Workbook2 (blank) because there is nothing to be done today
Workbook3 Cook dinner
Is this possible?



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