Strange Vlookup problem

[peter.thompson]

I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e. January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the month (i.e. 1,2, etc)

I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from another worksheet e.g. January.

When I do a Vlookup on "January" i get spurious results such as 8 instead of 1

Any idea what's going on here??

Cheers

Peter

[Peo Sjoblom]

1. Use exact match vlookup(lookup,Table,2,false)
2 make sure that there is a match by comparing 2 cells
=lookup=cell_that_should_match
should return TRUE, the reason can be one is formatted date mmmm returns
January and the other is text

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Peo Sjoblom

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> I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e.
> January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the
> month (i.e. 1,2, etc)
>
> I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from
> another worksheet e.g. January.
>
> When I do a Vlookup on "January" i get spurious results such as 8
> instead of 1
>
> Any idea what's going on here??
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
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[peter.thompson]

The exact match fixed it up !

Thanks Peo

Peter