Comments on: VLOOKUP in Excel 2007

By: newkid47

newkid47 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:59:23 +0000

Thank You!!! for all the help… I was able to replace all the spaces with commas and and then all the names with more than one comma with one and then all the commas with one space and everything work perfic!!! Thanks again

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:45:50 +0000

You could try copying and performing a ‘special’ paste, pasting just the values of the columns.

If that doesn’t work I would suggest to create a new question about that specific problem.

Regards,

By: newkid47

newkid47 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:09:50 +0000

You are right, but it’s not spaces, it’s the language! Western apears at the begining of the last name but on where else. How do I remove the western notation, as when I type in excel there is no language notation? Thank You!

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:32:36 +0000

Strange,

Have you checked if this happens with every name of the list, or just with some of them ?
I can only think of some ‘invisible’ character in the names in column A. I would try copying one of those names to some text editor (notepad for example) to see what it looks like. For example, if you have the name ‘JOHN SMITH’ with two blank spaces between JOHN and SMITH, it will probably be imperceptible in excel, but if you look for the same with just one space, you will not find it.

By: newkid47

newkid47 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:32:11 +0000

I have 2 columns, 1st column client names, 2nd column people who refered those clients. =VLOOKUP(C2,$A$2:$B$180,2,FALSE) C2 is where I enter one of the client names in order to retrive the individual who refered the client, and it works when I copy directly from the client column, but if I type in the client name it returns #N/A. I need some help!