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I have a column in my data that is ID numbers, basically. Made a pivot table out of the data. I'm trying to do a vlookup into the pivot that ignores the first number in the data like so:
=vlookup("*"&A1,pivot table columns,2,false)
But I get N/A because the *&A1 is considered text, which I cannot change, and the pivot table data is considered to be numbers. I've tried going to the original data and changing the formatting to text and refreshing, I've tried formatting the cells where the data appears and I've tried going into field options and changed the number formatting to text. None of it worked.
Anyone know an easy way to get this to work?
Changing the format of a column doesn't always change the contents. You may have to change the table data type by using
Text to Column
and choosing theText
format. – CharlieRB – 2014-06-03T18:11:53.147