I have a date I need to match to an array of strings (that represents dates). Eg matching 6 nov 20 to (20201106, 20201107, etc. ). I can convert my date into this format using text(date,”yyyymmdd”) but then my lookup tried to match “20201106” with that list and the “ causes a mismatch. Any hints, and I would prefer not to change the array format?

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Excel probably still register that as date - try create a separate column to convert your look up as text using =text(A1,yyyymmdd)

That’s what I do, but with quotes around the yyyymmdd since doesn’t work without them.

If the other solutions don't work, maybe add a letter to the start of each array item and do the same for the cells

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Ok, realize excel is holding array as numbers not strings. So a *1 works (but is ugly)

So convert dates to text, then to numbers. You can't go date to number directly because dates are numbers based on days since 1900

Why do you need the double quotes around the original lookup value?

If you do want to keep it try changing the lookup cell to reflect from "A2" to =MID(A2,FIND("'",A2)+1,FIND("'",A2,FIND("'",A2)+1)-FIND("'",A2)-1). This should ideally return the value between the quotes.

Link that helped - https://www.xspdf.com/resolution/50981465.html#:~:text=the%20extracted%20text.-,Type%20formula%20%3DMID(A2%2CFIND(%22'%22,Format%20cells%20as%20date.

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