[mso] Re: Excel 2000: Is MATCH malfunctioning?

I think I invented a new cuss word looking for the problem to this.

To make a LONG story short, you know those marks that are above the
characters? I had it looking for "Bibb" but the person who put this list
together for me spelled it as  "Bibb" !!  Look closely at the dot above the
i isn't a dang dot, it was a small mark diagonally. It was the wrong
character.
(I don't know if special characters are allowed on the posts, but I tried.
Enlarge it 200 percent and you see the difference.) It sure looked ok to me
and I didn't think of enlarging it to check the characters. No wonder it did
not find it.

Sorry to waste your time guys, I was really at a loss what to try next.

Merry Christmas all.

Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Ray Blake
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:49 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2000: Is MATCH malfunctioning?

Your syntax is fine, and there's no problem with having a numeric
character as part of the range name. But MATCH requires an exact match -
a stray space in either A1 or in the version of the name in the name
range will cause you problems. If it's in A1, there's an easy fix, like
this:

        =MATCH(TRIM(A1), Alabama,0)

If the spaces are inside the Alabama range it's less easy.

Let us know how you do with this.

Ray

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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Robert Carneal
Sent: 23 December 2004 20:30
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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