VLOOKUP with numbers and text Generic formula =VLOOKUP(val&””,table,col,0) Summary To use the VLOOKUP function to retrieve information from a table where the key values are numbers stored as text, you can use a formula that concatenates an empty string (“”) to the numeric lookup value, coercing it to text. In the example shown, the formula in H3 is: =VLOOKUP(id&””,planets,2,0) // returns Read More