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  1. 02-07-2015, 02:53 AM #1
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    Hi all! Greetings from San Francisco, CA. Got into Excel during a brief stint as an investment banker, enjoyed creating models ever since. Looking forward to posting and solving problems on here.

    Joined to ask a question about using VLOOKUP in conjunction with RAND() values. This Google sheet should illustrate my issue: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...7H8/edit#gid=0

    Shouldn't the VLOOKUP function in A13 return the alphabetical value in the (X, Y) position in the table? I'm sometimes getting back numeric values so I think something's wrong.

    Having this same problem in my desktop versions of Excel so don't think it's a Google Doc issue.

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    Re: VLOOKUP + RAND glitch?

    Hello
    you should use this
    =VLOOKUP($A$10,$B$3:$G$7,$B$10+1,TRUE)
    because if you have 1 in Rand X then vlookup would give the value from the C column itself so the column number should be +1
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    Re: VLOOKUP + RAND glitch?

    Try this instead...
    =index($C$3:$G$7,$A$10,$B$10)
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    Re: VLOOKUP + RAND glitch?

    Wow rookie mistake. Thank you!
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