Thread: Fetch values from one table to another using VLOOKUP

I'm about to go completely insane over this... I've been looking at countless tutorials, since there's apparently 100 different ways of doing this. I just can't get it to work.

I don't think I'm attacking the problem from the right angle.

My problem is the following:

Look in the attached spreadsheet. *attachment removed*

Columns A and B contains a DUNS number and an ID number, which all are related to each other.

I need a way to find each DUNS number in column D, "fetch" the corresponding DUNS number and put it into column E.

I've tried all different Excel functions you can possible imagine, but I just can't get it to work. It's probably really easy, but I'm just stuck, and it's driving me insane...

It probably takes less than 2 minutes to solve if you only have a proper understanding of the VLOOKUP function, which I don't...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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It seems your column A data are really Text entries while your column D data are Numeric.

Try either:

Select column A and go to Data|Text to Columns and then click Finish... then use formula: =VLOOKUP(D2,A:B,2,FALSE)

or just simply use formula: =VLOOKUP(""&D2,A:B,2,FALSE)

copied down.

Although working with complete columns works with XL2007 I would suggest limiting your ranges, otherwise you might encounter very slow calculations in the future