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Lawrence_Lam_320
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Aug 23, 2023
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Vlookup issue

Hi Expertises,  Need you help again. I have a problem in vlookup as below   736 1234 736123 1234 88Q 2345 88Q567 #VALUE!   I need to extract the first left 3 characters from the d...
  • OliverScheurich's avatar
    Aug 24, 2023

    Lawrence_Lam_320 

    =VLOOKUP(IFERROR(VALUE(LEFT(C1,3)),TEXT(LEFT(C1,3),0)),$A$1:$B$4,2,FALSE)

    This formula works for the sample data in my worksheet.