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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / February 2008VLOOKUP
Using Excel 2002; using a formula; =VLOOKUP($K$2,Sheet1!$A:$G,2) on cell K3 irrespective of what value I input into K2, I get a result in cell K3 regardless of whether K2 is valid or not is this a bug or am I missing something? Hi, Try this =VLOOKUP($K$2,Sheet1!$A:$G,2,0) The addition of (,0) on the end of your formula will only return a result if there is an exact match in your lookup table. Hope this helps, Gav. > Using Excel 2002; > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > is this a bug or am I missing something? thanks re read the help and realise my function lacks the 4th argument Any difference is using "0" or "False" tia > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> is this a bug or am I missing something? No, they are the same thing. "0" is just quicker to type.. Regards, Gav. > thanks > re read the help and realise my function lacks the 4th argument [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >> > >> is this a bug or am I missing something? You're missing the 4th argument to the function, which directs it to look for an *exact* match. =VLOOKUP($K$2,Sheet1!$A:$G,2,0) Without that last argument, you'll need to have your lookup list sorted (not necessary when looking for exact matches), ascending, and Vlookup would then return the *closest* match that's not larger then the lookup value. Without the 4th argument, *and not* having the list sorted, you can get all sorts of inaccurate returns.  SignatureHTH, RD ===================================================== Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ===================================================== Using Excel 2002; using a formula; =VLOOKUP($K$2,Sheet1!$A:$G,2) on cell K3 irrespective of what value I input into K2, I get a result in cell K3 regardless of whether K2 is valid or not is this a bug or am I missing something? |
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