How to get vlookup to display without changin

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PhilMac - Oct 19, 2009 at 03:48 PM
venkat1926 Posts 1863 Registration date Sunday June 14, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen August 7, 2021 - Oct 19, 2009 at 08:53 PM
Hello,

The Problem: using Vlookup formula (* =VLOOKUP(A5,$A$1:$A$9,2,FALSE)), I cannot get column results to work in A5 or A6 (as shown below - just #N/A or REF!). Eventually, I managed to get A2 match values to display (by moving Column A2 to A1). What was blocking the result?

$List$ Match Type(t) Score t1 total t2 total
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6
1 3 5 jobs #N/A #N/A
2 4 t1 0 jobs 0 jobs #N/A
4 5 t2 25 jobs #N/A 25 jobs
5 6 0 jobs #N/A #N/A
7 7 t2 5 jobs #N/A 5 jobs
8 8 t1 14 jobs 14 jobs #N/A
9 9 t2 70 jobs #N/A 70 jobs
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14 jobs 100 jobs

Actually, I created a workaround using =VLOOKUP(A4,$B$4:$B$279,1,FALSE), but I had to change the layout of the table (by moving the A2 column to A1).

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venkat1926 Posts 1863 Registration date Sunday June 14, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen August 7, 2021 811
Oct 19, 2009 at 08:53 PM
little confusing. your column heading A5 is like to be confused with cell A5(5th row 1st column ).
in the formula
=VLOOKUP(A5,$A$1:$A$9,2,FALSE))
what is A5 and what is 2.

what do you want to find.

in the vlookup formula the first argument must be the first column in the second argument reference range . Otherwise use index-match function.
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