Text Or Number Formatting For VLOOKUP To Work?
Aug 4, 2012
My problem is that my VLOOKUP formula will not return any data when it doesn't like the format of the data it's looking up.
Example: I have a spreadsheet that displays revenues earned by assets.Every month I export a table of data from an accounting software program with (a) asset numbers, (b) invoice date, and (c) monthly revenues.Then I copy the data into Tab 2 of my spreadsheet.On Tab 1 of the spreadsheet there is a table that lists Assets 100 through 120. Column A has all the asset numbers.Each month it varies as to which assets earned revenue and which one's did not. Usually between 10 and 15 assets earn revenue in any given month and about 5 do not earn revenue.On Tab 1 there is a column with VLOOKUP formulas that looks up the asset number in column A of Tab 1 and points to Tab 2 where the data that was exported from the accounting software program is located.Let's say that in July 2012 that Asset 1001 earned $35,000.On certain months, the VLOOKUP formula looks over to tab 2 and "returns" the $35,000 revenue with no problem.On other months, it will not return anything, apparently it does not like the formatting and does not "recognize" the asset number.
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Jan 7, 2009
I am using the vlookup command, I have a table with 2 columns, the left one has text and the right one has numbers in currency. the vlookup works for all the text bar one, which is AX.
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May 6, 2007
I have two columns, one is with number and one is with text, what i have to do concate both columns data in one column with formatting. but when i m adding with & operator or by concatenate, formatting disappear.
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Jul 28, 2006
If I use Vlookup to find something when:
Lookup Value is formatted as General and
Lookup Array is formatted as Text
Excel will find the thing I'm looking for.
If I use Vlookup to find something when:
Lookup Value is formatted as Text and
Lookup Array is formatted as General
Excel will NOT find the thing I'm looking for.
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Jul 13, 2006
i want to do a vlookup but the column i'm looking up is text instead of a number? i tried it and it doesn't work or is there some limitation with the character being only 16 max
example
column a
beegerters
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Mar 4, 2007
I have a cell that contains numbers and text.
example: 1-2-3-4-5-6 or 1-22-3-44-5-6.
If the the number between the dash '-' is a single digit (less than 9), I want to insert a leading zero so all 6 numbers are 2 digits.
Is this possible with custom formatting? I tried a custom for of:
00"-"00"-"00"-"00"-"00"-"00
and it is not working.
I also tried using a MID formula but it gets quite complex identifying the location of the dash - is there an easier way than the MID or LEN?
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May 5, 2009
I am trying to reference a Name of a place from an order number. To illustrate, University Park, IL can have an order # of 6598641373. The only thing is, all I need to reference is the first four digits, 6598. The other worksheet does not have city and state names, they only have the order #s.
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Mar 14, 2007
I am using VLOOKUP to match Account names in two tables.
If the names are made up of letters or letters+numbers the names match.
If the account names are purely numbers the names do not match.
All names are formatted as text.
I have tried using TRIM, numbers still do not match.
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Jan 13, 2014
I am trying to format a cell (in Excel 2010) as a phone number. The problemis that the data comes over from our download as text. Is there an easier way then using the 'SUBSTITUTE' function to change format to a true phone number (so that we can mail merge into WORD)? Since it is extracted out as a text, using the 'phone number' format (under special) will not work. Using the 'SUBSTITUTE' formula to remove the parenthesis', the dash and the space work but is cumbersome.
Below is an example of the text format that is being extracted: (706) 378-7585
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Apr 20, 2013
Conditional Formating Text equaling to Number formats:
Example:
C20 is '436.59 (its pasted as text often is must remain as text) and D20 is 436.9535
I want D20 to have only 2 decimals and turn green if it equals C20. And turn red if it doesnt equal C20.
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Feb 1, 2007
Ive created a pivot table which looks at an Access Database in the form of a Cube. One field has numbers in, but when it comes through as a cube, it treats these numbers as text. So when I have a the rows as this field, they appear in text order, eg. 1, 10, 100, 101, 2 etc (instead of 1,2, 3, 4 etc). How can I get this field to be recognised as a number field in the pivot? (its a number field in the access database). Ive applied a sort to the data where Ive made my own custom list, but this is just a temporary fix. Can i specifiy somewhere that this field is a number and should be treated as such??
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Dec 8, 2013
I am trying to return the value (date) of a construction schedule by searching for a specific construction activity ID number. Is there a method I can use which incorporates a text search so that as the schedule grows (cell locations shift down) the lookup function still follows the unique activity ID?
Below is a sample of row of the ID I must search for, and the date I must return (on a separate excel file):
A
B
C
D
-
Activity ID
Description
Start Date
End Date
1
L3S4C10020
Supporting Walls to UPTS Slab 3
19-Jan-14
25-Jan-14
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Jul 16, 2014
I have a text file that I need to open in MS Excel 2007. The file contains the following data. (Each column is delimited by the "|" character.)
Part #|Inventory ID
1743|213,221
1864|10,40
1948|1170,1180
5265|100,104,107,10004
Ultimately, I need three columns but the data needs to look the same as it did before I opened the file.
When I open the file for the first time, I use “Text to Columns” to delimit the fields by the "|" character. The problem is that the Inventory IDs in the middle column get a bit whacky.
Here's what I'm left with:
Part # Inventory ID
1743 213,221
1864 10,40
1948 11,701,180
5265 10,010,410,710,004
The comma is retained appropriately when there are two 2- or 3-digit Inventory IDs.
When a row has multiple, longer Inventory IDs or Inventory IDs that vary in length, the comma is moved to every 3rd decimal place.
I tried putting quotation marks around the data before I opened the text file for the first time but that didn’t do anything. I tried Custom Formatting to retain the comma position (0000,0000) but this only worked when I had two 4 digit IDs. I also changed the number type to Text and General. Once the comma was changed, I couldn’t figure out how to get it back.
How to best retain the format of my Inventory IDs.
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Sep 6, 2013
I have a spread sheet where there are multiple rows of price quotes from different suppliers.
Some suppliers have quoted, some however have not and there is a "#N/A" or "no bid".
SupplierA
SupplierB
SupplierC
SupplierD
1.3
No Bid
2.3
No Bid
How can I get a conditional format to check each row for the lowest numeric bid, highlight it but ignore the text?? What I have tried so far doesn't work.
=G31=MAX($G$31:$J$31)
This does not seem to work, I don't know how to exclude the text values from the MAX function.
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Jan 24, 2012
I want to change to format on the axes from % to numbers using the code below but nothing happens?
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Range = "Listbox4" And Range("U4") = 2 Or Range("U4") = 5 Then
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 5").Activate
[Code]....
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Jan 19, 2010
I'm trying to get some formatting/formulas to work, but apparently I'm not doing it right (otherwise, I wouldn't be here ):
1. Column A has dates. I want Column A_ to be red if the date is a week old or more from today's date, and white if it is not.
2. Column A has dates, and column B has dollar values. I want three four summations:
-Total dollar value from dates a week old from today's date
-Total dollar value from dates 2 weeks old from today's dates
-Total dollar value a month old from today's date
-Total dollar value year to date
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Jun 22, 2007
why the macro "try()" in the attached workbook does not work?
I get the error message: "Unable to get the Vlookup property of the WorksheetFunction class"
Sub try()
Dim i%
For i = 1 To 35
Sheets("Sheet2").Select
myValue = Cells(i, 1).Value
Sheets("Sheet1").Select
n = WorksheetFunction.VLookup(myValue, "A1:A11", 1, True)
Sheets("Sheet2").Select
Cells(i, 2).Value = n
Next i
End Sub
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Jun 23, 2014
I'm trying to count the rows of a worksheet based on the location selection. Heres what I'm using:
[Code]....
Before I add the Vlookup, I get a number of 50. I should get at least 40+, but after adding the
[Code] .....
I get "0."
I'm wondering if I need to use VLookup differently in this case ????
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Sep 25, 2007
I have a VLOOKUP formula that works when searching some cells but not others when both cases should work.
Q: Does VLOOKUP have a certain maximum amount of characters it can search? If a cell contains more than this amount of characters will VLOOKUP not work?
This is what seems to be happening on my spreadsheet. The VLOOKUPS that refer to the cells with more than the average amount of characters seem to fail. The same happens with INDEX.
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Mar 27, 2009
I have a VLOOKUP formula, so when the cell above (C5) has a value, it returns the value from a defined list. Simple so far and it works great when I manually input the value in the cell (C5).
The problem occurs when I change C5 to contain an AVERAGE formula? Any ideas why it will only work when there is a plain old value in there, but not a formula?
This is the VLOOKUP formula I'm using:
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Jun 13, 2014
I used vlookup function in cell C3 to find ID of employees in Sheet 1 in source workbook and then, I imported the Sheet 1 in master workbook.
The vlookup didn't work in master workbook. The cell C3 in sheet 1 that I imported is blank.
The original got the ID in cell C3, then I don't see the value in cell C3 in master workbook.
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Aug 21, 2014
The for loop don't work in my excel 2010 macro. Probably the problem might be the Range("Fi") construct with the variable "i"?
Dim i As Integer
For i = 4 To 10004
Cells(i, 63).Select
Cells(i, 63) = Application.VLookup(Sheets(3).Range("Fi"), Sheets(4).Range("F:AY"), 45, False)
Next i
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Dec 1, 2006
i have created a Vlookup that pulls data from another work sheet, it all works fine apart from this one thing....
On a work sheet i have a lot of hyperlinks that work fine, but as soon as they get pulled over using a Vlookup, the name of the hyperlink comes accross for example "link 1" but you can not click on it to take you to the link like you can on the original one.
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Feb 23, 2012
Code:
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
If Intersect(ActiveCell, Sheet8.Range("C16:Y1000")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Dim rw As Integer
Dim arw As Integer
rw = 16
[Code] .....
As you can see, my code is located in the sheet8 worksheet object. Now, I have a few questions about this. Because I am located in the sheet8 worksheet object does that mean my code can only work in sheet8, i.e., the following won't work because I am in a Sheet8 worksheet object?
Sheet10.Range("B12) = ..... ....... .....
This is not returning a value in Sheet10? My question is how do I make my code return a value in Sheet10?
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Apr 28, 2014
I have a question in regards to excel. I have a set of data arranged as follows:
Date System Desc
3/7/14 IPE Alphamo
3/7/14 IPE Beta
3/7/14 i3 Gammana
7/7/14 ews Pisqrt
7/7/14 IPE Jaque
8/7/14 saa Mistiqe
And I need to put them into a calendar with the following format:
3/7/14 7/7/14 8/7/14
IPE Alphamo Jaque
IPE Beta
I3 Gammana
ews Pisqrt
saa Mistiqe
I have tried index and match, vlookup and etc but it didn't work.
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Sep 8, 2009
For obvious reasons, the conditional formatting to shade alternate rows doesn't work when filtered. So I think I need another way of doing it. Luckily, my table is fairly static, rows aren't added or removed. The first column is excluded from the banding. As is the first and last row with data (1 & 67) respectively. I found a relevant thread here, but the code is beyond my understanding.
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Jan 30, 2014
I have problem with a spreadsheet that I am trying to create.
I have a large sheet of data which is dumped in from another program. This contains our deliveries and orders etc.
Now for planning purposes, I would like to see how much of each item I have on order.
I can use VLOOKUP, but that will only give me the amount for the first order it encounters. But not the 3rd, 4th etc. I could use SUMIF but I need the dates as well. After doing some searching I think I have found a way of doing this: I can get the first easier enough:
=VLOOKUP(D$11,'purchase order'!$A$1:$K$6000,5,FALSE), this gives the first order than the another =VLOOKUP(D11,'purchase order'!$A$1:$K$6000,11,FALSE) for its date.
For the second column to check any other orders I thought I could find the cell referance for the first SEARCH: which is
A108: ="A"&MATCH(D11,'purchase order'!A:A,0).
Is there any way of using this Reference to start a new VLOOKUP. So the Lookup Range starts at this reference?? To make things harder it is on another sheet.
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Oct 16, 2013
I am having difficulty with a Vlookup in Excel 2003. Basically I have converted both fields to Text using the text function =TEXT(A2,"0") and have tried matching the values but just get an #N/A error and I have also converted both back to number format but still get the #N/A error....when I do a "=" operator function it returns a FALSE value but I cannot see why as both cell are just 4 or 5 digit number.
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Jun 12, 2009
Excel spreadsheet will contain a form that will consist of drop down boxes (data validation). Each drop down box will define the data that can be selected in the next drop down box.
The way I initially went about it, is creating nested IF statements. However, we all know there is a limit of 7 nested IF statements. I have 10! So below formula does not work:
=if(B5=1,F5:I5, if(B5=2, F6:I6, if(B5=3, F7:H7, if(B5=4, F8:J8, if(B5=5, F9:H9, if(B5=6,F10:G10, if(B5=7,F11:H11, if(B5=8,F12:H12, if(B5=9, F13:I13, if(B5=10, F14:K14))))))))))
I tried other workarounds such as CONCATENATE, or & signs. No luck. VLOOKUP does not work also, because there are multiple columns in col_index_num. Anything else I try gives me this message:
The List Source must be a delimited list, or a reference to a single row or column
What should really happen is this:
User selects value in first list box. Second list box shows values associated wih the value from the first drop down only.
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Aug 15, 2009
I built an Excel Macro to pull information from my schedule and compile it within another Worksheet. The Macro below searches for an instance of "Unavailable" and then populates my Data Worksheet with the WeekDays (ie: M-W-F or ALL Week), the Details (ie: Vacation or Training) and the Name of the employee. I struggled with a way to populate my employee name as "unavailable" isn't always offset by the same amount of characters to employee name (as it is with WeekDays and Details). Instead, I collected the row in which "Unavailable" was found.
I used the Vlookup function to populate the number of Absences and it worked swell.
=VLOOKUP(C2,O:P,2,FALSE)
C2 is populated with Weekdays (ie: ALL week or M-W-F)
O contains a list of possible day combinations
P contains the number of days
I hoped to use a similar function to populate my employee names. This didn't work well a 'tall.
=VLOOKUP(A2,L:M,2,FALSE)....................
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