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I am building a template which uses vlookup function in excel to return text from other data tables. However, some of my cells in some of the tables have formulas which need to return through vlookup but instead it returns just the text.
This is the formula I am using =VLOOKUP($D57,VESSEL!$D$4:$N$1571,6,FALSE)
So, please help me to fix the issue as I really need help on this. I need vlookup to return formula.
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Hello,
I can't seem to make the VLOOKUP to work but if you're happy to use INDEX/MATCH then this works:
=FORMULATEXT(INDEX($N$4:$P$6,MATCH(J5,$N$4:$N$6,0),3))
Let me know how you go.
Regards,
MN