Reading from another file

RodneyW

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Office Version
  1. 2013
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  1. Windows
I have this formula in column O as well as P

IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B5,'[SampleData2020.xlsx]2020'!$B$3:$B$200,1,FALSE),"")

I believe what it is doing is looking at the value in column B on the sheet where the formula is, and looking for the same value in column B, rows 3 through 200 on the SampleData file. Here’s where I run into a problem. Column O on my destination sheet should display the value in column F on the SampleData file. Column P should display the value in Column E. My thoughts were that by changing the ,1, part of the formula, I’d change the column data was pulling from. If I change it to 2, 3 or even 0 or -1 or anything else, the resulting value is blank. Currently, using the formula above, it displays the value in column B from Sample Data.

What am I missing? Thank you in advance.
 

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How about
IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B5,'[SampleData2020.xlsx]2020'!$B$3:$F$200,5,FALSE),"")

and change the 5 to 4 for column P
 
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You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.
 
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