Formula Nightmare!

[How_Do_I]

I can't get my formulas to work and I just can't see where I'm going wrong... It's a CHOOSE with 2 VLOOKUPS that is not giving an expected return BUT, my 1<SUP>st</SUP> problem is D1… why is my return 0 and not TRUE?

Just noticed that the bottom of my window says Circular: D1 but I can't even see why it is a circular?

Fixtures

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<TABLE style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: groove; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #00ff00; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: groove; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffcf9; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #00ff00; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: groove; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #00ff00; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: groove; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #00ff00"><TBODY><TR><TD>Spreadsheet Formulas</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" border=1 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2><TBODY><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><TD>Cell</TD><TD>Formula</TD></TR><TR><TD>D1</TD><TD>=C1=C5</TD></TR><TR><TD>D2</TD><TD>=VLOOKUP(C5,$AF$1:$AH$12,2,0)</TD></TR><TR><TD>C3</TD><TD>=MAX(Week)</TD></TR><TR><TD>C5</TD><TD>=IF(U5="Entered","E",1)</TD></TR><TR><TD>D5</TD><TD>=CHOOSE($X$2,VLOOKUP(C5,$AF$1:$AH$12,2,0),100)</TD></TR><TR><TD>F5</TD><TD>=IF($X$2=1,$AH1,AH14)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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[Gerald Higgins]

It's difficult to be sure about this, because there's obviously a lot of formulas involved and we can't see all of them.

First off, is C1 actually = to C5 ?
It looks as if C5 must be a numeric 1.
But what's in C1 ?
Is it possible it's a text "1" ?
Or maybe a numeric 1.1 or 0.9 ?
Either of those would cause the mismatch.

The circular reference comment might be a bit misleading. In my experience it may not actually be D1 that contains the circular reference, but it may refer to a cell that contains the circ.ref.

It looks as if C5 doesn't contain a circ.ref, so does C1 contain one ?
Or maybe U5 ?