[mso] Re: Excel 2000 matching up rows and columns
- From: "Ray Blake" <ray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:19:41 +0100
Oh, yes, I saw it. I just felt the need to explain why, particularly
since this argument actually defaults - dangerously in my opinion - to
'True'.
Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
Sent: 23 July 2003 04:38
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2000 matching up rows and columns
Hmmm...did you not notice that my vlookup formula DID have "false" in it
Ray? :-)
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ray Blake
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:32 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2000 matching up rows and columns
Don,
This is a great tutorial from Linda. Make sure when you use the vlookup
command you put 'false' in as the third argument. As I said in another
recent post, what it means is, "Don't rely on the list of items in the
first column of the table being in alphanumeric order - check every one
of them until you get an exact match." Leaving it out is like saying,
"The first column of the lookup table is definitely in alphanumeric
order - if you get past the search phrase in the list and it's not
there, don't keep looking, just use the nearest match". This would speed
up your sheet if there were a lot of huge lookup tables in it, but here
it's not even worth thinking about. Like I say, it's good practice
always to include "FALSE" just in case it trips you up one day.
Ray Blake
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