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Tue 21 Aug 2007, 09:52 Delegate Lisa said...

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My VLOOKUPS often give me half of the data that I am looking up. For example, with a recent postcode checker, although the postcodes were on the next worksheet, the data did not filter through to my worksheet. What am I doing wrong?

Thu 30 Aug 2007, 10:14 Trainer Katie said...

RE: Vlookups

Hi Lisa,

Thank you for you question.

The key for making a VLOOKUP function, you must count the columns correctly.

I assume your VLOOKUP function is placed on a different sheet from the postcodes. the VLOOKUP function should read:
=VLOOKUP(search cell, Sheet_name!datatable cell range, column number of Postcode)

Let me know if this is enough.

Katie

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