V Look Up

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Thu 1 Oct 2020, 10:08 Stephanie (guest) said...

V Look Up

When using V lookup on Excel, I am trying to match an inventory however when using V lookup it will not match all barcodes even though they are there to be matched. I think it is to do with the formatting of the cells are different but when changing them to the same formatting it will still not find them with V look up. Any help would be great please.

Thu 1 Oct 2020, 12:13 Trainer Jens said...

RE: V Look Up

Hi Stephanie,

Thank you for the forum question.

Your problem is probably spaces or hidden characters.

Try to add the trim and clean function to your Vlookup.

=Vlookup(Trim(clean(A2)), Table array, Column number, range lookup)

I just added A2 to my example you need of course to use you cell reference.

Let me know if this do the job.

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
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