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Case Sensitive Lookup

The VLOOKUP function (and its brothers MATCH, LOOKUP, and HLOOKUP) do not care about the case of the lookup value. Take this data, for example: A B 1 Name Number 2 Bob one 3 Jim two 4 bob three 5 jim four The formula =VLOOKUP("bob",A2:B5,2,FALSE) will return “one”. It finds “Bob” and quits looking because it considers that a match. If you need to find the true “bob”, you can use [...] Read More...

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Posted Sep 22 2010, 07:30 AM by Daily Dose of Excel
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