[mso] Excel 2000: Is MATCH malfunctioning?

Merry Christmas all. This seems like a so very simple to solve problem, yet
I have gotten nowhere for two days now.


I have a list of counties and the states the are located in. If I enter
"Bibb" I want it to tell me there is a Bibb County, Alabama.

In my A column I heave entered all the counties, the B column contains the
states to those counties.

I have made ranges and named those ranges.

Entering in cell I2: =MATCH(A1,Alabama1,0) results in a #N/A error. A1
contains "Bibb" and "Bibb" is inside the Alabama1 range. Thinking the
numeral might cause a problem with the name, I removed it so that it says
=MATCH(A1,Alabama,0) and it still results in #N/A

Am I using the parameters for MATCH incorrectly? Anyone see right off what
my error is please? It looks to me as if I am following the example giving
in Help for MATCH, but I am doing something wrong somewhere.

Thank you.

Robert

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