Please see attached, sheet 'Actions'
I need to do lookups in K2 and L2 (looking up values from 'Data')
A. Note K2 is literally displaying the function. Why is that?
B. In L2, the value is 0 -- it should lookup the Role value in Data G13.
I'm overlooking something simple, I'm sure.
Thank you.,
Firstly change format as General
Formula:
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A. The cell formatting is "text". change to "General", double click within the cell and press "enter".
B. Also change the formatting to "General". try using this formula.Formula:Please Login or Register to view this content.
Getting there.
So, using this > =VLOOKUP(J2,Data!C5:G25,5,FALSE) < which does work...
If I copy that cell, highlight the cells below it and paste ...
I noticed the forumula changes. The Data!C5:G25 does not stay consistent. Instead I see this:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J2,Data!C5:G25,3,FALSE),"")
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J3,Data!C6:G26,3,FALSE),"")
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J4,Data!C7:G27,3,FALSE),"")
etc., etc.
Ideas? I have not seen this before when copying formulas. Thanks again.
You need to fix the arrays as absolute before copying down:
=VLOOKUP(J2,Data!$C$5:$G$25,5,FALSE)
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Success! Thank you.
And something I just noticed. In Actions L column, the lookup displays a 0 if there is no value in the Data table.
Why is that? Thank you.
That's just how it works. If it finds the J2 value then it has to return something, so if the column you are retrieving the value from is empty it will return 0.
You can either test for that & return "" or hide the 0 values
Conditional Formatting might be the best way?
Yes, you could use Cf to "hide" the 0 values by changing the font colour to match the fill colour.
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