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Angela McGhin
Feb 12, 2019Brass Contributor
vlookup using concatenate function and helper column
Hi - I've set up a table to record project costs. To save time, there are some standard unit costs that I want to pull through from another tab in the same worksheet. For example Consultant '...
- Feb 12, 2019
Hi Angela,
That's because you use VLOOKUP in the approximate match mode.
So please fix it as follows:
=VLOOKUP((CONCATENATE(B6,C6)),'drop downs'!$A$1:$B$23,2,0)
By setting the last argument to 0 or FALSE, you're now in the Exact match mode.
Hope that helps
Haytham Amairah
Feb 12, 2019Silver Contributor
Hi Angela,
That's because you use VLOOKUP in the approximate match mode.
So please fix it as follows:
=VLOOKUP((CONCATENATE(B6,C6)),'drop downs'!$A$1:$B$23,2,0)
By setting the last argument to 0 or FALSE, you're now in the Exact match mode.
Hope that helps