Yes in order to work all cells must be as text. I’ve selected all them and formated as text but VLOOKUP doesn’t work. To work I must double-click every single cell.
It’s there anyway faster to do it?
thanks
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Yes in order to work all cells must be as text. I’ve selected all them and formated as text but VLOOKUP doesn’t work. To work I must double-click every single cell.
It’s there anyway faster to do it?
thanks
The table A is from the database. The col that I’m looking for is set to text somehow (but is not manually done.)
In the table B which is manual I put some numbers (and sometimes chars) that act as id.
Now I want data from table A to show up in table B. I use vlookup but it doesn’t work, because it says it can’t find.
Now I select all cells from table A and format them as text. But vlookup still doesn’t work.
Now if I double click on a cell it will convert somehow to real text and vlookup works, but this takes a long time if you have many rows.
So the solution is to append an empty string to the cell like this: B1&””, where B1 is the id of the cell in the excel.