Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of Lee Richardson
Lee RichardsonFlag for United States of America

asked on

Microsoft Excel 2013 VLOOKUP Return Error From Lookup Sheet Duplicate Values

I have a file list of about 200 prospective clients which I've gathered all contact info, minus the state for each unique prospect (Did not have a state column at all during initial contact information gathering; now decided we do need the state). In the midst of attempting to avoid any notable time spent manually adding the states via typing them in, I found an excel file that provides a comprehensive zip code-state listing, where I had hoped to link a VLOOKUP formula in my state column. In using this list (the V-lookup uses the already-known prospect zip code column), I realized that I was getting #N/A returns. This is likely due to the fact that excel does not like your lookup columns to have duplicate values. Is there any short way of fixing this, or a somewhat simple workaround? I have two screenshots, and attached the .xlsx file in reference. Thanks for any help in advance.
excel.png
excel-1.png
REVISED-LEAD-list.xlsx
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Ejgil Hedegaard
Ejgil Hedegaard
Flag of Denmark image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of Lee Richardson

ASKER

Well done. Thank you, very much!