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advanced excel course london - VLookups
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Fri 27 Jul 2007, 14:21Delegate Nick said...
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VLookups
When using a vlookup, is it possible to bring the formatting from the cell being looked up? For instance, if a list of salaries is being looked up, how does the lookup show the currency paid?
One obvious answer would be to format the cell in question apropriately, however, it is possible someone's salary is paid in different currencies depending on the country they work in, so formatting in the destination cell would not be responsive enough.
Wed 1 Aug 2007, 11:44Trainer Tracy said...
RE: VLookups
Hi Nick,
You are quite right the VLOOKUP only transfers the contents of the cell into another cell by looking down the list and across. The formatting of the specific cell is lost. As you say it is possible to format the destination cell but this is will not update. This is a limitation of the function.
Tracy
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