Problem with Vlookup on a cell with a vlookup in

RobE

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I have a stock profiling spreadsheet where I am pulling together a summary based on several system generated spreadsheets. One called 'Super' which has most of my stock info and the other called 'Sales' which has a sales history in.
Column A has part codes as supplied by my suppliers and column B looks this up in the 'Super' sheet to return our internal part code.
Standard formula is
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP($A2,super,6,FALSE)),"",VLOOKUP($A2,super,6,FALSE))
which is in column B

However later in column L I am trying to return the sales figure for this product using the internal part code returned by the above formula in column B
I'm using this formula
=VLOOKUP($B2,sales,10,FALSE)
but I keep getting N/A. When I replace the $b2 ref with an actual part code it works OK

Any ideas?

Thanks
ROb
 

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Try converting it from text to columns.Then add the $signs to the cell names

That should work.

:biggrin:
 
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Not with you...
Try converting what and listing what cells with dollar signs?
 
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Check that the "Lookup_value"
and the information in the Left column of your "table_array"

are both TEXT or real Numbers.

Enhance the formula to allow comparison of TEXT to TEXT or NUmber to Number.
 
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