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ResolvedVersion 2007

Rajeev has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Vlookup

when can we use true & false in vlookup

RE: Vlookup

Hi Rajeev,

Thank you for your question.

When creating a Vlookup formula, in the range lookup argument you use False if you want to find an exact match and True if you wanted to find the closest match(if the top row contained ranges eg. 0, 500,100 etc.

If you were to type in 345 if the range lookup is set to false then it wouldn't find it as it is looking for that exact value in the top row. So in this case you would use True.

On the other hand if you were searching for a capital using the Country as your lookup value(first column) then you would use False.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Simon

Wed 24 Jun 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

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