Lookup Function not working

[hcamelion]

Here is my function:

=LOOKUP(A18,'Week 1 Totals'!A18:A94,'Week 1 Totals'!J18:J94)

For some reason this is not working for me. I am trying to find a total number of hours worked for a given job. A18 is a job number. A18:A94 on week 1 totals sheet is a range where the job numbers are located for each job. J18:J94 on week 1 totals sheet is where the total hours are for each job. For some reason this function is returning 0 even though J18 = 1 where A18 on the current sheet matches A18 on the week 1 totals sheet. So it should return 1. I cant figure out why its not working. Any one know why.

[paul]

vlookup is better =vlookup(A18,'Week 1 Totals'!A18:J94,10,false)
i cant count so you might have to play with the col num (10)
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"hcamelion" wrote:

>
> Here is my function:
>
> =LOOKUP(A18,'Week 1 Totals'!A18:A94,'Week 1 Totals'!J18:J94)
>
> For some reason this is not working for me. I am trying to find a
> total number of hours worked for a given job. A18 is a job number.
> A18:A94 on week 1 totals sheet is a range where the job numbers are
> located for each job. J18:J94 on week 1 totals sheet is where the
> total hours are for each job. For some reason this function is
> returning 0 even though J18 = 1 where A18 on the current sheet matches
> A18 on the week 1 totals sheet. So it should return 1. I cant figure
> out why its not working. Any one know why.
>
>
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[hcamelion]

That worked great but there is one problem: Week 1 Totals sheet may or may not have the job # I am calling as only jobs that were worked that week show up on that sheet. When vlookup does not find the corrosponding job number it returns #N/A. I need it to return 0 when the job is not on the week 1 totals sheet. Any ideas. I tried doing an if...if the vlookup = #N/A display 0 if not display the vlookup result. But I guess that doesnt work with errors. Any ideas.

[edwardpestian]

Use ISERROR

=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A18,'Week 1 Totals'!A18:J94,10,FALSE)),0,VLOOKUP(A18,'Week 1 Totals'!A18:J94,10,FALSE))

-ep