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    Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    Pretty straight forward, can't figure out why my vlookup function will not work.

    Please see attached, should be pulling data from columns C and D into column O.

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    Re: Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    You have 2 problems.

    1) In O1, your formula is
    =VLOOKUP(N1,C1:D1,2,0)
    It's only looking in C1 for a match to N1, which it is not a match.
    That should be
    =VLOOKUP(N1,C$1:D$5200,2,0)


    2) The values in C are TEXT values (beginning with ' ), but values in N are Numbers
    Numbers will not match with Text strings.

    Try
    =VLOOKUP(N1&"",C$1:D$5200,2,0)
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    Re: Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    Column N is numbers
    Column C is text
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    Re: Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    So basically having the same issue again..

    Can someone take a look?

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    Re: Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    sheet is attached.
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    Re: Vlookup not working, where am I going wrong?

    It's the exact same 2 problems.
    Your formula is only covering 1 row of the lookup range G1:H1, it should be G$1:H$320

    You have 2 columns, 1 is numbers (G), the other is TEXT (E)
    Try copying a blank cell,
    Highlight column E
    Right Click - Paste Special - Values - Add - OK.

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