Awesome KL, thanks for the help. Worked perfectly....now on to something else
I probably won't get by myself.....

L

"KL" wrote:

> Hi Lynn,
>
> Try this:
>
> =INDEX('Differences'!$A2:$F$2000,MATCH($A2,'Differences'!$A$2:$A$5000,0),6)
>
> you need to use the 3rd argument in the function MATCH if you want to find
> exact match.
>
>
> Regards,
> KL
>
>
> "Lynn Bales" <LynnBales@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:754A065B-50FC-4FC2-9405-7F8D9D702F44@microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to add data from one sheet to another that is unsorted. The
> > formula I'm using:
> >
> > =INDEX('Differences'!$A2:$F$2000,MATCH($A2,'Differences'!$A$2:$A$5000),6)
> >
> > So according to instructions
> > MATCH matches the data in $A2 to similiar data in the Differences tab
> > column A
> > then Index will print whatever is in the column 6 of the differences tab.
> >
> > However, what's going on is that correct data is not getting into this
> > cell.
> > When I evaluated the formula, the match is not matching the correct value.
>
>
>