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AveryN
Mar 28, 2019Copper Contributor
Cell Formatting
I need help with cell formatting. I am pulling from a file that has numbers displayed as text. I am trying to format that number and then copy and paste to a Vlookup file to auto populate. My issue i...
Twifoo
Mar 28, 2019Silver Contributor
In your VLOOKUP formula, use the number, without any custom formatting, as the lookup_value argument. Custom formats are for visual representations but are stored as the same number by Excel.