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Old 09-12-2011, 10:56 AM
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Hi Karen,

You also need to specify a fourth argument, which tells it to do an exact look up:

=VLOOKUP(A2,'Sheet1'!$A$2:$B$141,2,0)

If you omit the fourth argument (it is optional) then VLOOKUP does an approximate match. This can be great when your data is sorted, because the formula calculates more quickly.
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