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Mr_McSquirrelly
Oct 17, 2021Copper Contributor
Vlookup errors with parenthetic numbers
I am trying to make Vlookup find values from a table when values are listed by different names. When I download data from web, my lookup value comes into spreadsheet as (14) Miami (FL), or (10) Texas...
- Oct 17, 2021
Mr_McSquirrelly
Oct 17, 2021Copper Contributor
Yea_So, sorry! I should've clarified before what version I'm using. I will save your formula if I ever upgrade.
Riny_van_Eekelen
Oct 17, 2021Platinum Contributor
Mr_McSquirrelly since you already work with PowerQuery for the import of the "12 Games Table", why not use PQ also for what is does best. That is, clean-up messy data into something more useful. Rather, than trying to look up inconsistently used school names with formulae, make use of PQ's capability of fuzzy matching with the help of a transformation table. That way, you can merge the list of schools (A18:A23) with matching information from Table1. Just a suggestion.