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5 Bite-Size Vlookup Tricks for Excel

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5 tricks for using Vlookup on data that might not always be 'friendly.'

This includes:

  • Removing extra spaces.
  • Working with multi-part lookup values.
  • Dealing with Vlookup errors.
  • Removing extra characters.
  • Fixing Text/Number value issues.

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Excel Function: LEN, LENB(), MID, MIDB(), TRIM(), VLOOKUP()
Excel Version: Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, Excel 365
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Excel Function: LEN, LENB(), MID, MIDB(), TRIM(), VLOOKUP()
Excel Version: Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, Excel 365
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