Vlookup Cannot Find Numbers
Nov 8, 2006
I have a very large database (42455 lines) which has three columns. The column A is a shipment number which is a combination of numbers and letters, column B is a ship date, column C is a dollar value for each shipment. This range (A2:C42455) is named SHIPMENTS. I have a second database right next to it that contains warranty information. Column D has the shipment number, Column E has the date the warranty call came in. These last two columns have only 2788 lines.
I'm using VLOOKUP in column F to match Ship dates with Warranty Call dates. The formula is:
=VLOOKUP(D2,SHIPMENTS,2,False)
and was dragged down all 2788 lines.
Out of the 2788 lines it did not find dates for 301 of them. Some of those 301 have Shipment numbers that are only numbers (no letters). As a test I copied one of the "unfound and all numbers" shipment numbers and did a control+F for all of column A and it found it. Clearly VLOOKUP is missing some of the Shipment numbers. I made sure that the Shipment number in column A matches the number in column D by cancelling out of the Find window and clicking on the found cell. Then I made sure there are no stray spaces tacked onto the end of the number and there were none. I hit enter.
At this point excel starts calculating again and when I go back up to the VLOOKUP (In column F) it has now found the data I've asked it for originally. I've not changed any of the values of either cell...All I've done is use Control+F to manually find the Shipment number in SHIPMENTS and then verified that there were no spaces in the found cell by clicking on it and using the arrow keys. Once that was done I hit enter.
Somehow this sequence of actions allows VLOOKUP to now find the cell.
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Apr 12, 2006
How can I create a vlookup function to automatically retrieve phone numbers off switchboard.com using my current mailing list?
I have a list of more than 4,000 of my customers. I want to ad in phone numbers automatically. I currently have the first and last name in one column. The address, city, state and zip are all each in their own column.
I have never use vlookup before, nor have I ever used excel other than for data entry. What is the easiest and most efficient way to do this?
I searched this site and seen vlookup mentioned for this type of automatic data entry. There may be another way or method I am not aware of.
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
23445566894 Brwn pdc aft
Cat1
45687930596
$5
45687930596 Gld wdget adi
Cat2
23445566894
$6
In the example above, I would like to do a vlookup in column C that matches the digits in column A to those in column F, with the output being the corresponding value in column G. I believe it involves the left function but not sure how to really use it here.
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I have two columns of numbers (this week - Column A and last week - Column B). What I need to do is look at the numbers and pull two lists out in Columns C and D. In columns C a list of the numbers that are missing from last week in column D numbers that are missing that were added from the previous week. The two lists consist of about ten thousand rows of data.
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(A)boutA1=ABCD1This WeekLast WeekMissingAdded
21002103110311002310271032103210274103310331034104051035103410361055610371036
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The first 7 digit number is the input to a certain equation. This equation outputs the 7 digit number after the space.
Input (7146127) ==> Equation ( Unknown) ==>Output (2871082)
These are some data that I have ( inputs and outputs). I was wondering if there is anyway to find this equation. I can get more data if that helps in finding the equation.
71461272871082
53820056426572
61070709150530
75833373805331
55466908456008
49264716615511
12387558353260
20013928484175
67975657084961
38006283229553
68973249414920
65179634653276
66971872613128
59646203411273
69785611400836
58284602307740
64723009925464
57930863495088
58816593932906
62736335606616
52119154778580
60043359437317
61921553996320
51507747216899
13197956063818
64210347411256
65399671193442
55656585589500
55148886441637
30850639587521
69081133766387
54139417804940
53408393698534
62310293191095
30512556590168
14514168265124
89078208134056
85177364363577
68714858216023
17584065849687
52691521917548
9840524785846
59268687494601
89374963791119
45989738961270
65040033345415
15061518946940
55392084949214
45103824265242
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I am attempting to lookup two values, 32 and 686 w/ this formula-
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I have a list of patient records in one sheet - looks something like this - pin number in one column and respective dates each in a column:
pinfudate rtenddate
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554322/12/200530/12/2005
670428/11/1994
670418/11/1994
678024/06/199912/07/1999
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I think I need a macro to do this. Can I use vlookup function for a range of number? lets say I have number 1001 to 1005. i want to combine the result. any other way other than using this formula
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I have a hierarchy of system requirements where the hierarchy is represented in "ID" (Column A) by a structure such as:
1: Parent
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I have to "massage" the spreadsheet to relate the requirements based on their "Name" (Column B) rather than through their "ID" (Column A).
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I've manually found the first two numbers and colored them red and green... but I can't seem to get the formula to work.. As you can see, it's only able to find the negative numbers, but not any of the positive numbers.
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What are your recommendations for the most effective method of doing this in VBA...
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I've 2 worksheets, Summary and Sales. I need to get the total sales figure from the "Sales" worksheet onto the Summary worksheet. Sales data are pasted onto the worksheet monthly. Tried using vlookup but problem is, the column containing the total sales figure may vary and I need to update the vlookup formula. Another problem is that sometimes the Total sales (the lookup value) is not in the first column. Tried using the Index and Match combo but cannot get it to work. I've attached a simple mock up to hopefully illustrate my case better. I believe the experts in this forum should find this rather easy!
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I have attached a sample sheet.
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using vlookup I am trying o find the highest value>>>>
e.g
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111036 01/05/09
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=VLOOKUP(A2,[Book2.xls]Sheet1!$A:$B,2,0)
Book1.xls
Book2.xls
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my name
your name
someone else
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as sheet 3 would look like this
col a / col b
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What my goal is - is to only have to enter the column b in sheet 3 one time per name and have it fill in on sheet 1 for every entry of multiple entries of the same name in column a if that makes sense.
I know this should be simple- I want to avoid the if statement as there will be about 50 names to sort and return the proper class (column b)
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Also if there is 2 occurrences of column B in table B, i want the field in table A to show both values.
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=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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=VLOOKUP("VIOLATION",'Master sheet'!1:1048576,1,FALSE)
Right now I just get #N/A.
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This is a tst excel 2
test case 3 tst 3
case for excel
test 4
tst nº 5
Excel1.JPG
And expected result should be: (column B, contains the formula):
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This is a test 1 test 1
This is a tst 3 excel 2
test case 3 1 tst 3
case for excel 2
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tst nº 5 3
Excel2.JPG
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