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Asked: 2026-05-24T19:23:25+00:00

Does anybody know if it is possible to MATCH() cells across Excel documents? At

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Does anybody know if it is possible to MATCH() cells across Excel documents?

At the moment I have the following Excel formula which throws a Value Not Available error:

=MATCH( $C$2, 'fooDoc.csv'!$C$2 : 'fooDoc.csv'!$C$1000, 1 )

The idea is that I take the value in cell C2 of the document I am in, and check where it appears in the cell range C2 : C1000 in the fooBar.csv document.

Please note that the following formula does work, so I do have access to the values:

=MATCH( 'fooDoc.csv'!$C$2, 'fooDoc.csv'!$C$2 : 'fooDoc.csv'!$C$1000, 1 )
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  1. Editorial Team

    your formula should look like:

    =MATCH( $C$2, fooDoc.csv!$C$2:$C$1000, 1 )

    it works well when the file fooDoc.csv is open

    btw, the quotes are useless if you have no space in the name of the file

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