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Default Vlookup to the left

I have the following in columns a and b:

_A__B_
Jan| 1 |
Feb| 2 |
Mar| 3 |
etc...

when a number is put into cell A15, i want A16 to return the month. this is
the formula i have:

=VLOOKUP(A15,A1:B12,1,FALSE)

unfortunately, it's returns #N/A. I know how to work the vlookup when, for
example, i'm looking up the month and i want the month number to be returned.
I can't get vlookup to work when the lookup value is in column 2 of the
array and the result value is in column 1. What am I doing wrong? Cheers

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