Fixing N/A Errors in XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP - Hidden Characters Problem

Fixing N/A Errors in XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP - Hidden Characters Problem

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7. SUBSTITUTE and CHAR9 function to remove Ascii character 9 – a horizontal tab.

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7. SUBSTITUTE and CHAR9 function to remove Ascii character 9 – a horizontal tab.

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Fixing N/A Errors in XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP - Hidden Characters Problem

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  1. 1 1. Introduction.
  2. 2 2. Using XLOOKUP and getting an #N/A Error.
  3. 3 3. What cause #N/A? Hidden characters that are unknown.
  4. 4 4. Check for hidden characters at end of lookup value with RIGHT & CODE function to check.
  5. 5 5. Lookup Ascii codes to figure out what it is? LOOKUP function.
  6. 6 6. TRIM to remove Ascii character 32 – a space.
  7. 7 7. SUBSTITUTE and CHAR9 function to remove Ascii character 9 – a horizontal tab.
  8. 8 8. SUBSTITUTE and CHAR10 function to remove Ascii character 10 – a a line feed Alt + Enter in Excel.
  9. 9 9. SUBSTITUTE and CHAR160 function to remove Ascii character 160 – a no-break space.
  10. 10 10. Determining what characters are causing error, when characters could be anywhere in text, not just at end.
  11. 11 11. Extract all characters from text string with LEN, SEQUENCE, and MID.
  12. 12 12. CODE functions to determine the ascii code for hidden characters.
  13. 13 13. Fix lookup value with many hidden white space characters with REGEXREPLACE.
  14. 14 14. Summary
  15. 15 15. Closing
  16. 16 16. Outtake with formula to substitute multiple characters at one time: CHAR, ARRAYTOTEXT, REDUCE, LAMBDA and SUBSITUTE
  17. 17 17. Outtake Summary
  18. 18 18. Outtake Closing

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