Hello all, I just joined the mailing list off the recommendation of http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/support.htm. I have mastered the basics of Vlookups in Excel, however I occasionally encounter a problem when working with data exported from MFG Pro (if you are unfamiliar with this software, it is unimportant). In a nutshell, the cells which I am trying to populate using Vlookup will read #N/A- until I go to the column from which it is drawing data, change its format to General/Number, highlight an individual cell, hit F2, and hit then enter. I have to do this for each cell in the column. As you can imagine, completing the process for every cell is rather tedious and I'm curious if anyone knows a better way. There are no blank spaces at the end of each cell of data in the column, although some cells have an apostrophe at the beginning (these are few in number). Perhaps I will request a method of filtering out the apostrophes in a later email ;) Thanks for the help, let me know if I can provide any further assistance, and have a great day! Jon - Skillman, NJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************