VLOOKUP

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Thu 7 May 2015, 11:52 Delegate Mark said...

Mark has attended:
Excel Advanced course
Excel Dashboards for Business Intelligence course

VLOOKUP

Hi Best IT,
I am using the following VLOOKUP formula to establish the following;
1)Transports in 1 but not in 2
2)Transports in 2 but not in R

Worksheet for R32
=VLOOKUP(A2,'R31 SCM Report 07052015'!$1:$1048576,1,0)
Worksheet for R3R
=VLOOKUP(A61,'R32'!$1:$1048576,1,0)
I have a return of N/A's (which according to my logic should return results of transports that are NOT in the systems. However, when I select the range of transports(data) and double check them in the systems logs, the transports are there!
Please help, this was one of the main areas that I wanted to conquer on the course and I thought I had understood this.

Please respond ASAP.
Kind Regards
Mark

PS. I can send you the actual worksheets (raw data)if you like.

Thu 7 May 2015, 13:48 Trainer Jens said...

RE: VLOOKUP

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the forum question.

If the lookup value isn't in the first column in the lookup array the function return N/A.

You can test the lookup value against the lookup value in the lookup array. Lets say that you in A1 have the lookup value and you have the lookup value in you lookup array in B10.

If you in a cell types =Exact(A1,B10) the exact function will return true if we have the exact same value in the two cells and false if the cells do not have an exact match.

Specially if we import data to Excel we can get unprintable characters, unwanted spaces after the entries and much more. We have some cleaning tools in Excel which can be helpful if this is the issue.

Please test the lookup value which return N/A against the value it didn't find in the lookup array.

Please let me know if the exact function return TRUE. If it return FALSE have a look at the CLEAN function and TRIM function.

Please let me know if you need more help.

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

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