I cannot get conditional formatting to work on this document... Please help

[Beth12366]

Looking to add conditional formatting to both column B and C. B's target would be 97.00% and C's target would be 91.00%. I have been trying to figure this out out all morning. Can someone look at it and tell me whats wrong? I have used conditional formatting many many times with no issue... Thanks, Beth

[martindwilson]

the % values being returned by the vlookup are text and therfore not treated as a number
all the % values on rtd data dump are text
you can either fix the tables
or make the vlookup convert to a real number
=VLOOKUP(A8,'RDT DATA DUMP'!$A:$P,2,FALSE)+0
or
=--VLOOKUP(A8,'RDT DATA DUMP'!$A:$P,2,FALSE)

[Beth12366]

I love you martindwilson!!!!!!

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