bencar
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Hi guys,
This vlookup problem has me scratching my head. For the following table I use the vlookup formula below to lookup up book title, author and price in different cells at the same time. It includes a COLUMNS function to paste it across cells to return book title, author and price. Whats so strange about it is, I can enter COLUMNS($Z:Z) instead of COLUMNS($A:A) and I still get the right answers. Why does it do this if column Z isn't in the lookup table but works as good as column A which is?
=VLOOKUP($B13,$A$2:$E$11,COLUMNS($A:A)+1,0)
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This vlookup problem has me scratching my head. For the following table I use the vlookup formula below to lookup up book title, author and price in different cells at the same time. It includes a COLUMNS function to paste it across cells to return book title, author and price. Whats so strange about it is, I can enter COLUMNS($Z:Z) instead of COLUMNS($A:A) and I still get the right answers. Why does it do this if column Z isn't in the lookup table but works as good as column A which is?
=VLOOKUP($B13,$A$2:$E$11,COLUMNS($A:A)+1,0)
| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Number | Book Title | Author | Price | Type |
| 2 | 1 | A Game of Thrones | George R.R. | $19.77 | hardcover |
| 3 | 2 | Go to Sleep | Adam Mansbach | $8.22 | paperback |
| 4 | 3 | A Dance with Dragons | George R.R. | $18.81 | paperback |
| 5 | 4 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | $4.94 | paperback |
| 6 | 5 | The Original Argument | Glenn Beck | $7.99 | hardcover |
| 7 | 6 | Heaven is for Real | Todd Burpo | $9.34 | paperback |
| 8 | 7 | Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | $13.99 | hardcover |
| 9 | 8 | Smokin' Seventeen | Janet Evanovich | $15.21 | paperback |
| 10 | 9 | In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson | $13.78 | paperback |
| 11 | 10 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | $8.97 | hardcover |
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