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paulturner
Jan 22, 2023Copper Contributor
Excel Dates lookup
I am currently working on a small project where a user inputs hours in a simple form. The hours and the date are stored in a simple list in Columns A (hrs) B (Date). A lookup list of dates are in Col...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Jan 22, 2023Platinum Contributor
paulturner What's happening is that MATCH returns an index number (between 1 and 38), based on the formula provided. And since you format the results as dates. The date value 1 is equal to January 1, 1900 and 38 is equal to February 7, 1900.
- paulturnerJan 23, 2023Copper ContributorThanks for your reply so MATCH is not, in this case, a good solution. I didnt want anything complicated!
- Riny_van_EekelenJan 23, 2023Platinum Contributor
paulturner Perhaps you need to go with VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP if you are on a recent Excel version.