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Joe Black
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Jul 18, 2018
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VLOOKUP not working with CELL

Hello,   I'm having trouble with this project that I'm working on. I'm trying to make a report in which you chose a name from a drop down list and then all of the other information is filled in aut...
  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    Jul 18, 2018

    Hi Joe,

     

    In general it works, but with some limitations. cell("contents") without the reference returns the content of last edited cell. Thus you need double click the cell in sheet 1, start typing any characters, select drop-down list and it shows now the list of words with that characters.

     

    And since you lookup the column in the middle of your sheet 2 array I'd suggest to use INDEX/MATCH in sheet 1, as attached.

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