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I found a workaround, but question on HLookup in Excel. I setup an

HLookup formula. Pretty basic. It's looking for 50, 70, Q or H as the header of some columns. 50, 70, Q or H are something you'd enter into a specific cell, then it would look for resulting values. 50, 70 and Q all worked fine. H returned "#N/A". First thought was "maybe this function doesn't like mixing numbers and letters as the column headers", but nope, I was mixing them and 50, 70 and Q all worked. Maybe the format for H is somehow different? So I copied the formal for Q into H. Still #N/A. I experimented a bit. Substituting T for H worked fine. Same for X, Same for another couple of letters. So I just changed the header to "X" and it's all fine now. But what would be the reason for H NOT to work, but pretty much any other letter was fine? Did using "H" in an "HLookup" somehow confuse the function?
Posted: 11/20/2023 at 01:54 PM ET

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I found a workaround, but question on HLookup in Excel. I setup an
Late 80s Hokie 11/20/23 01:54 PM ET
How the H should we know? Good luck!**
TomTurkey 11/20/23 09:05 PM ET
I love when people here speak in their native tongues.**
PhotoHokieNC 11/20/23 05:16 PM ET
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FfxStationHokie 11/20/23 03:53 PM ET
If lookup_value is smaller than the smallest value in the first row, #N/A
pburg_hokie 11/20/23 02:50 PM ET
No. Especially with the lookup value sometimes being a number, and
Late 80s Hokie 11/20/23 03:30 PM ET
I think your search lookup has to be in Alphabetical order.
Hokie Hokie 11/20/23 02:16 PM ET
I think that this is it. Or at least PART of it. I went back to an earlie
Late 80s Hokie 11/20/23 09:44 PM ET
Doesn't seem like it should, unless "H" is a magic letter for some reason
Beerman 11/20/23 02:06 PM ET