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VLOOKUP WITHOUT EXACT MATCH CODE
You can select code in your VBA window, press Tab, then copy and paste into your post or comment. The difference between approximate and exact match is the Rangelookup box where the exact match uses false (or 0) while the approximate match uses true (or 1. To apply code formatting Use 4 spaces to start each line This will award the user a ClippyPoint and change the post's flair to solved. (VLOOKUP will keep looking until it finds a match or figures out there is no match.) The column to return is the column of the table, not the column of the spreadsheet (if your VLOOKUP table starts in column B, then 1 refers to column B, as it is the first column in the table.) VLOOKUP exact matches are NOT case sensitive. OPs can (and should) reply to any solutions with: Solution Verified Only text posts are accepted you can have images in Text posts.Use the appropriate flair for non-questions.Post titles must be specific to your problem.The results returned will be invalid if the array is not sorted appropriately. Approximate matches are used when you have an ascending table like Commission Bonus Rates or Income Tax Rates. You can also use 2 to search a lookup_array sorted in acending order and -2 to sarch a lookup_array sorted in descending order (see about running binary searches in sorted arrays in our post about the DOUBLE VLOOKUP trick). The Vlookup function in Excel is great when you want to find an exact match in your data table but what happens if you want to find an approximate match. : Use 1 to search starting with the first item, and -1 to search starting from the last item. It is also possible to use 2, which is a wildcard match with special meaning for characters "*", "?" and "~". if TRUE or omitted, VLOOKUP returns either an exact or approximate match it is important to sort the first column of the tablearray in ascending order to ensure that VLOOKUP returns the correct value if FALSE, VLOOKUP will only find an exact match. exact match is the default value, so basically most of the time you won't need to use this argument! You can also use -1 to return the next smaller value if no match is found, or 1 to return the next larger value if no match is found. : like with VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH, use 0 for an exact match ( #N/A will be returned if no match is found). : instead of #N/A, you can specify what should be returned in case no match is found. But since we do not know in which exactly column the sales for a specific month are, we cannot supply the column number directly to the colindexnum argument. The core of the formula is the standard VLOOKUP function that searches for an exact match to the lookup value in I1. The fourth argument in the VLOOKUP formula, rangelookup, is a Boolean argument, meaning that you can give it a TRUE/FALSE value or representation of a TRUE/FALSE value such as 1/0. VLOOKUP(I1, A2:F9, MATCH(I2, A1:F1, 0), FALSE) How this formula works. Return_array: this is the range with the result you want This example was an exact match VLOOKUP and returned the exact value you were seeking not an approximation. In the data entry table, a VLOOKUP formula should get the category name, based on a products category code. In this example, there is a simple lookup table, with category codes and category names. Lookup_array: this is the range where you are searching for it To learn the basics of VLOOKUP, and see more examples, go to the VLOOKUP Function page. Lookup_value: this is the value you are searching for