lookup tables

I am building a mapping of our chart of accounts to produce financial
statements. I am using the account number as my main lookup. However, I have
different branches and some of them do not have the same account numbers - so
the lookup function is returning the closest value. What can I do? Thank you
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Pat

If must set the last argument of the lookup function to false to force
it to make exact matches eg
=VLOOKUP(A1,$B$2:$B$5,FALSE)

Hope this helps
Rowan

Pat wrote:
> I am building a mapping of our chart of accounts to produce financial
> statements. I am using the account number as my main lookup. However, I have
> different branches and some of them do not have the same account numbers - so
> the lookup function is returning the closest value. What can I do? Thank you

Correction:
=VLOOKUP(A1,$B$2:$C$5,2,FALSE)

Regards
Rowan

Pat wrote:
> I am building a mapping of our chart of accounts to produce financial
> statements. I am using the account number as my main lookup. However, I have
> different branches and some of them do not have the same account numbers - so
> the lookup function is returning the closest value. What can I do? Thank you