VLOOKUP : how to use defined name in it

[Julie]

Good day everybody,

I hope someone can help me with this.

I have several data area defined with names, e.g. USA,
ASIA, CHINA.

I have a cell that will be filled with the data area name.
This cell is named as DATAAREA.

I will look up data in required data area with VLOOKUP
command.

=VLOOKUP(A3,dataarea,5,FALSE)

If in my DATAAREA is USA, this VLOOKUP is suppose to
lookup USA defined area to get the sales amount in column
5. But I could not get it working. I get #N/A which I
believe it read the cell DATAAREA instead of USA.

Please advise how to get it right.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Julie

 

[A.W.J. Ales]

Julie,

Use VLOOKUP(A3,indirect(dataarea),5,FALSE)
in stead of VLOOKUP(A3,dataarea,5,FALSE)


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[Julie]

Thank you very much A.W.J.

It works wonderfully.

Have a nice weekend.

Best regards,
Julie