But if the first column of the table contains numbers entered as text we will get an NA.

What text format for vlookup. VLookup NA is not due to cell format only as Text format but it also depends on the value and type of your data. Numeric values are formatted as Text. Generally an Excel TEXT formula is used in the following situations.

The vlookup function returns result in any data type such as a string numeric date etc. If you specify true for the approximate match parameter and no exact match is found then the next smaller value is returned. If your lookup number is stored as text and the original number in the table is real number format please apply the following formula to return the correct result.

As VLOOKUP requires a lookup value which in this case is contained at the beginning of a text string we can use LEFT to extract the lookup value from the customer phone number. If range_lookup is FALSE and lookup_value is text you can use the wildcard charactersthe question mark and asterisk in lookup_value. There might be spaces around the value in the lookup table.

The TEXT function is available in all versions of Excel 2016 Excel 2013 Excel 2010 Excel 2007 Excel 2003 and lower. VLOOKUPVALUEG1A2D152FALSE into a blank cell where you want to locate the result and press Enter key to return the corresponding information you need see screenshot. A question mark matches any single character.

Multiple conditions for the same range. Such as 12345 is not equal to 12345000000001 that see. Now that we are familiar with TEXT functions and also the basic VLOOKUP we can combine these to solve the problem.

Je ne savais pas que vlookup ne copiait que le contenu de la cellule enfin je men doutais un peu quand même et je cherchais des paramètres à lui passer ou une autre fonction complémentaire qui me permettrait de récupérer la donnée et son format. Error if the lookup value is not also in text form. VLOOKUP always looks in the first column of this data column I for the lookup value.