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    get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    I have the following vlookup and it works fine, however to get this to work in other sheets I will need to have the R25 to be a last row that contains values, rather than a hard coded Row 25. Can this be done? Basically I need to pull the range using last row from the external spreadsheet rather than hard coding the R value in the vlookup.

    "=VLOOKUP(RC[-6]," & Wb & "Product Receipt'!R2C1:R25C18,16,FALSE)"

    Obviously the Wb is a variable, this variable contains the path and filename that the data come from in the vlookup.

    the starting point of the range will always be constant, but the end row will always be different, hence the need for this functionality.

    Any help would be great, thank you.

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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    cant you just put R2000 or something?
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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    no, that would not work in vlookup, would return a value of #NAME? rather than the values I need from the range

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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    why? you are just making the range bigger R2C1:R2000C18

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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    not sure why it did that, but it did. Also, there are some sheets that will have close to 1Mil records, so 2000 would def not work. When I did the test I used 2000000 and got the #NAME? issue.

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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    well there aren't 2000000 rows 1048576 is the limit

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    Re: get last row of external workbook for vlookup

    sorry, typo, 200000

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