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Retaining Formatting when using (v)LOOKUP

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    Retaining Formatting when using (v)LOOKUP

    Hey everyone,

    I have a huge xls sheet with about 2,000 terms and rankings.. of which I need to pull about 100. I have successfully set vlookup to retrieve these, however on the document I'm pulling from, there are background colors for said cells. Is there any way for Excel to return the background color along with the data on the new sheet?

    Thanks a bunch!

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    Re: Retaining Formatting when using (v)LOOKUP

    Here's some pictures for what I'm trying to do:

    This is the original sheet with the formatting:

    http://i54.tinypic.com/33uetdh.jpg

    This is the sheet I am using the vlookup on:

    http://i51.tinypic.com/6948qg.jpg

    Is there a way for me to conditionally format it so that if it says "Increased" / "Decreased" / whatever, that it will change the color of the two cells to the left of it? Or if one cell is larger than the other to change the color of all 3?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Retaining Formatting when using (v)LOOKUP

    Any ideas?

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    Re: Retaining Formatting when using (v)LOOKUP

    Excel will not pull the formatting across with the VLOOKUP unfortunately. Someone in Excel Programming Folder might help you put together some VBA code to do that.
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