Thanks, Brian. I finally got a chance to look at this, and it appears
it was, in fact, formatted to text (though I can't figure out how that
would have happened b/c I didn't do anything before setting up the
formula). When I set it to General, it worked. I appreciate your help!
Carl
On 3/7/14 3:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 18:27 06/03/2014 -0500, Carl Paulsen wrote:
I have a spreadsheet that won't calculate a vlookup. The formula
displays as the formula, not the result.
I can think of two possibilities:
o You have Calc configured to display formulae, not results. Go to
Tools | Options... | LibreOffice Calc | View | Display. Is Formulas
ticked? Remove the tick.
o The cell into which you typed the formula was formatted as Text
before you did so. So what you have is a text string which happens to
look like a formula, not a formula. After you have changed the
formatting, you will need to retype or re-paste an entry and then fill
it down the column again to correct this.
What's more, the relative reference to A2, which should change as the
location of the lookup changes, doesn't change, so it always
references A2.
That suggests the second possibility.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Carl Paulsen
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