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Old May 16th, 2009, 07:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Patrick C. Simonds
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Default Problem working with Vlookup

I have the following table (A1:B6) from which I want to return the
appropriate value from column 1. This is my formula:

VLOOKUP(R16,'Sunday (3)'!A1:B6,1,TRUE)

My problem is that if R16 contains AIL, Floating Holiday, LWOP, Regular
Holiday the formula returns #NA, Sick returns NW6 not NW5 and Vacation
returns the correct value NW6.

As a test I tried swapping Vacation and LWOP and but Vacation Still returned
the NW6 value.


A B
1 NW1 AIL
2 NW2 Floating Holiday
3 NW3 LWOP
4 NW4 Regular Holiday
5 NW5 Sick
6 NW6 Vacation

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Old May 16th, 2009, 07:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Gord Dibben
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Default Problem working with Vlookup

I'm surprised you get any return other than an error with that construct.

VLOOKUP won't look left.

Swap columns A and B then =VLOOKUP(R16,'Sunday (3)'!$A$1:$B$6,2,TRUE)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:07:01 -0700, "Patrick C. Simonds"
wrote:

I have the following table (A1:B6) from which I want to return the
appropriate value from column 1. This is my formula:

VLOOKUP(R16,'Sunday (3)'!A1:B6,1,TRUE)

My problem is that if R16 contains AIL, Floating Holiday, LWOP, Regular
Holiday the formula returns #NA, Sick returns NW6 not NW5 and Vacation
returns the correct value NW6.

As a test I tried swapping Vacation and LWOP and but Vacation Still returned
the NW6 value.


A B
1 NW1 AIL
2 NW2 Floating Holiday
3 NW3 LWOP
4 NW4 Regular Holiday
5 NW5 Sick
6 NW6 Vacation


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Old May 16th, 2009, 07:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
T. Valko
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Default Problem working with Vlookup

Try it like this:

=INDEX('Sunday (3)'!A1:A6,MATCH(R16,'Sunday (3)'!B1:B6,0))


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"Patrick C. Simonds" wrote in message
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I have the following table (A1:B6) from which I want to return the
appropriate value from column 1. This is my formula:

VLOOKUP(R16,'Sunday (3)'!A1:B6,1,TRUE)

My problem is that if R16 contains AIL, Floating Holiday, LWOP, Regular
Holiday the formula returns #NA, Sick returns NW6 not NW5 and Vacation
returns the correct value NW6.

As a test I tried swapping Vacation and LWOP and but Vacation Still
returned the NW6 value.


A B
1 NW1 AIL
2 NW2 Floating Holiday
3 NW3 LWOP
4 NW4 Regular Holiday
5 NW5 Sick
6 NW6 Vacation



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Old May 16th, 2009, 07:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Domenic[_2_]
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Default Problem working with Vlookup

In article ,
"Patrick C. Simonds" wrote:

I have the following table (A1:B6) from which I want to return the
appropriate value from column 1. This is my formula:

VLOOKUP(R16,'Sunday (3)'!A1:B6,1,TRUE)

My problem is that if R16 contains AIL, Floating Holiday, LWOP, Regular
Holiday the formula returns #NA, Sick returns NW6 not NW5 and Vacation
returns the correct value NW6.

As a test I tried swapping Vacation and LWOP and but Vacation Still returned
the NW6 value.


A B
1 NW1 AIL
2 NW2 Floating Holiday
3 NW3 LWOP
4 NW4 Regular Holiday
5 NW5 Sick
6 NW6 Vacation



Try...

=INDEX('Sunday (3)'!A1:A6,MATCH(R16,'Sunday (3)'!B1:B6,0))

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