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Left Looking Lookups

OR: The problem with VLOOKUP. Wikipedia gives us a table of birthstones, and I think just because it’s Wikipedia, there’s a trailing space after every entry. Pasted into a spreadsheet, the table looks like this:   A B C D E 1 Month  Traditional Birthstone(s)  Modern Birthstone(s)  Mystical Birthstone  Ayurvedic Birthstone  2 January  Garnet  Garnet  Emerald  Garnet  3 February  Amethyst  Amethyst  Bloodstone  Amethyst  Read More...

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Posted Sep 10 2010, 12:28 PM by Daily Dose of Excel
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