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Reply Fri 12 Oct 2007, 14:03Delegate Jose said...

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Excel Advanced course

Excel

Vlookups - How are they run if you are looking from different Workbooks?

Do both workbooks need to kept updated?

Can you Vlookup in multiple workbooks?

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Reply Wed 17 Oct 2007, 11:47Trainer Richard said...

RE: excel

You would need to enter the Workbook location, sheet name, and cell range when refering to the Array you want to search in.

ie.
=VLOOKUP(A1,[file.xls]Sheet1!$A$1:$B$21,2,FALSE)

[file.xls]sheetname!cellref:cellref

Yes you would need to update both sheets.

No, you can only lookup on Array at a time.

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