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  • beefcarrot
    beefcarrot Posts: 793
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    by heck but that's complicated! I may well take you up on that offer.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964
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    Lookup only works if the lists are in ascending order, IIRC.

    :)

    GG
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  • beefcarrot
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    Thank you for all the information! I can't believe it was so stupid. Basically, I had written the children's name first name first, then last name. I had sorted by last name to sort things out. Basically, had I sorted by the first name, all this could have been solved. Case closed - many thanks for all your help everyone!
  • Fairwinds
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    As Chippy said, as you are wanting an exact match, you really should have a fourth argument in your formula of 0 or false. If you have this the list doesn't need to be sorted at all.

    At present if you look up a name that isn't in the list, it will return the results for the nearest name alphabetically rather that alert you to no match.
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