Vlookup returns results in some cells others shows N/A

Welcome to the wacky world of Excel....

An array formula:
=VLOOKUP(TRUNC(E1,2),TRUNC($A$1:$B$70,2),2,FALSE)



Array Formulae are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

You will know the array is active when you see curly brackets { } - or "curly braces" for those of you in the USA, or "flower brackets" for those of you in India - appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...in-a-list-in-e

It's our old friend the floating point arithmetical precision problem - see here ... and other places

One way without creating a helper column would be an array formula e.g. E27 - entered with Ctrl Shift Enter

Formula:

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and custom formatted as 0000000000

Otherwise with a helper column which contains =ROUND(A1,2) and use the helper column in your lookup.

Normally try to Copy a blank cell then copy to column A by paste special/ Add

In this case it does not work but I dont know why.

Try a helper column G, in G1:
=TEXT(A1,"00.00")+0
Copy down

Copy G column pate special/value back to column A

Try this
Select A1:A69
select DATA tab
Text To columns --> Next -->Next--> Finish
Now VLOOKUP Works ok.

Hi. I just manually increased the number of decimals.... I forgot to restore them before posting!!

Anyhow, glad you got sorted,

You're welcome.

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