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7 Easy Things to Do Before You Write a VLOOKUP Formula

If you are like the majority of Excel users, you feel a great sense of achievement when your VLOOKUP pulls the values from a given backend list.
It is also true that this pleasure is suddenly stopped when you receive an unexpected #N/A error.
Do these things to have peace of mind and confidence in your results…

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Do You Recognize the 3 Early Warning Signs of an Unexpected #N/A Error?

Every occasion you play a data analyst role you must not waste your time fixing unexpected problems. Your moral is affected each time you get an error while analyzing data.
The fact is that you usually get #N/A errors later in the process, just when it is time to analysis data and patterns.
I have found the [...]

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How to Build a VLOOKUP Exact Match Formula that doesn’t Fail

Answer yes to these set of questions when you write a VLOOKUP 0 (exact match). This way you will always build Reports in which you trust.
At the Backend (haystack)

Is the lookup index column located at the left?
Is the index column free of duplicates?
Is the index column free of weird characters? For example: ” for inches, [...]

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Stop Wasting your Time Trying to Do Tasks that VLOOKUP Approximate Match doesn’t Support

VLOOKUP is a great tool but if you have used it for your daily reporting purposes you may have notice some shortcomings…

VLOOKUP 1 searches on a left index column. Why left? Database tables have the key column on the left so I assume they consider this in the design. (INDEX and MATCH allow you to [...]

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How to Build a VLOOKUP Approximate Match that doesn’t Fail

Answer yes to these set of questions when you write a VLOOKUP 1 (Approximate match). This way you will always build Reports in which you trust.
At the Backend (haystack)

Is the lookup index_column located at the left?
Is the index column free of duplicates?
Is the index column free of weird characters? For example: ” for inches, m [...]

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Revisit VLOOKUP, You may Be Missing some Important Point

Explore Vlookup in a new way so you make sense of old arguments in a innovative and enlightening ways.
The fact is that humans VLOOKUP everyday! Excel users too!
The fact is that you search information day by day and every occasion to decide and take actions. I found very useful to make sense about this great [...]

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Using VLOOKUP – How to Avoid #N/A by Getting Rid of Spaces in the Backend List

VLOOKUP is pure bites, it doesn’t know if a guy mistypes a text. When Using VLOOKUP, “Martha” is not the same as “Martha ”
What does this mean? When Using VLOOKUP, the matching must be absolute. That is, letter by letter (not case sensitive), space by space, character by character.
The fact is that Excel Lists [...]

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