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I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e.
January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the
month (i.e. 1,2, etc)

I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from
another worksheet e.g. January.

When I do a Vlookup on quot;Januaryquot; i get spurious results such as 8
instead of 1

Any idea what's going on here??

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2 make sure that there is a match by comparing 2 cells
=lookup=cell_that_should_match
should return TRUE, the reason can be one is formatted date mmmm returns
January and the other is text

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gt;
gt; I have an array that has months in the first coumn (i.e.
gt; January,February etc) and a number in the next column representing the
gt; month (i.e. 1,2, etc)
gt;
gt; I have a cell in the same worksheet that returns a specific month from
gt; another worksheet e.g. January.
gt;
gt; When I do a Vlookup on quot;Januaryquot; i get spurious results such as 8
gt; instead of 1
gt;
gt; Any idea what's going on here??
gt;
gt; Cheers
gt;
gt; Peter
gt;
gt;
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The exact match fixed it up !

Thanks Peo

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