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shade206
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Dec 19, 2019
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Using VLOOKUP across multiple tabs with INDIRECT causing HAVOC

Hello, I have multiple tabs and i’m using the VLOOKUP paired with INDIRECT, its “ref text” is a drop down list titled exactly as the tabs. I’m unable to get it to adjust the Vlookup results whe...
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    SergeiBaklan
    Dec 20, 2019

    shade206 

    You have mix of dates and texts in your data. In main sheet

    date for Thu and Fri are actually texts. In other sheets they are also different, e.g. for Jennifer

    these are dates, and for Kelly

    there are texts.

     

    You need to format all cells as dates and re-enter texts as dates (they are actually number in Excel). Simple test - texts by default are aligned to the left, and numbers to the right. Or you may in any empty cell to test the formula as =A27+1. If returns #VALUE error you have the text in the cell.

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