how to do a vlookup on a source that has numbers that look like text?

bigdan

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My source file has numbers in Col A but look like text or are text. You know how you sometimes have numbers with those tiny triangles in the top left which mention it's stored as text? That stuff.

How would I do a vlookup on that? I'm trying to do one right now and this source file does have the stuff I'm looking up but I'm getting no match. This would be the reason I assume.

With my result data I tried formatting the numbers I'm looking up as text thinking that might work; so that it would be text doing a vlookup on text. That didn't work either.
 

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