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georgina450
Jun 15, 2020Copper Contributor
VLOOKUP across sheets
Hello everyone, I am trying to use VLOOKUP to reference a second sheet (attached is the spreadsheet I am using). I want to ask column C in the 'Activities' sheet (a number to represent the 'Type' of...
- Jun 16, 2020
Hi Georgina
The issue was that you were looking up column H:I (2 columns) but wanting to retrieve data from the 7th column - so you were getting the #REF error.
I have changed the range to H:N columns - and then retrieving the data from 7th column - this returns 0 (space). I added a second line and retrieved data from 4th column so you could understand how this work. Hope this helps!
Peter
georgina450
Jun 16, 2020Copper Contributor
peteryac60 Thank you so much, you have solved all my problems! I have amended the original spreadsheet so that you can now select an HEI Descriptor from a drop-down list, and the selection auto-populates three other cells. Thank you!
peteryac60
Jun 16, 2020Iron Contributor
- georgina450Jun 16, 2020Copper ContributorI'm so sorry - I can't find or see how to do this, even with the help of Google!
- peteryac60Jun 16, 2020Iron Contributor
- georgina450Jun 16, 2020Copper ContributorI can't find a way to mark this conversation as complete.