hlookup and match

[ehardway123]

Hey all,

I am not sure what is happening. I have used this function a bunch of times and it is giving me a #na. My function is =HLOOKUP(D2,BL!$A$4:$D$17, MATCH(Sheet6!$C$1,BL!$A$4:$A$16,0), FALSE). D2 is 13 and c1 is JUN. It should be returning the number 5 but it is giving me an #n/A. What am i doing wrong? Below is the table im trying to return the number from.

WLTYPE	BL
Count of WLTYPE	Column Labels
Row Labels	13	14	15	Grand Total
JAN		11	20	31
FEB		5	23	28
MAR		6	13	19
APR	7	10		17
MAY	20	3		23
JUN	5	15		20
JUL	8	13		21
AUG	15	16		31
SEPT	2	17		19
OCT	6	6		12
NOV	1	26		27
DEC	1	13		14
Grand Total	65	141	56	262

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[ehardway123]

btw, A4 is row labels if you needed to know the start of the table array

 

[danzon]

there is nothing wrong with your formula... I cut and pasted your data and formula and it worked as expected.

Leads me to believe that your 13 is maybe not exactly 13.... maybe it is actually a rounded number...

or JUN is not exactly JUN... maybe leading or trailing spaces exist somewhere...

test like this

=Sheet6!$C$1=A10

see if that returns TRUE

then do the same with the two cells that have the 13... likely scenario is that one of the 13's is actually text and not number

 

[danzon]

... likely scenario is that one of the 13's is actually text and not number

if in fact this is the problem, then one of these should correct the issue

=HLOOKUP(TEXT(D2,0),$A$4:$D$17, MATCH($C$1,$A$4:$A$16,0), FALSE)

or try

=HLOOKUP(D2*1,$A$4:$D$17, MATCH($C$1,$A$4:$A$16,0), FALSE)

 

[ehardway123]

thank you!

 

[danzon]

anytime