We hit enter, and bam … it works! We push the formula down, and the results are shown below. Something like this: =VLOOKUP( TRIM(B7), Table1, 2, 0) So, we just modify our formula above by using TRIM in the first argument. Namely, leading, trailing, and extra spaces between words. TRIM as you may have guessed removes excess spaces. Rather than remove the extra spaces by hand, we’ll get an assist from another function, TRIM. So, what are we supposed to do? Go in there and delete all of the trailing spaces by hand? No, that would take too long. Our 4th argument is 0, and since it can’t find an exact match, it returns #N/A. So, instead of looking up “AB101” Excel is trying to find “AB101 ” (w/trailing spaces). Specifically, a bunch of trailing spaces. What’s going on? Is Excel broken? Did I write the formula incorrectly? The formula looks perfect … so why the error? When we inspect the data closely, we see that the lookup values have extra spaces. So, we write the following formula into D7: =VLOOKUP(B7, Table1, 2, 0)Īnd, to our surprise, it returns an error, as shown below. We need to retrieve the related Cost from Table1, shown below. We have a report structure, as shown below. Let’s try to visualize the issue before we get to the hack.
I’ve prepared a video and full write-up for reference. When the lookup value has extra spaces, but the lookup range values don’t, VLOOKUP runs into problems. This is great for situations where you need more than a basic Confluence table can provide, such as for financial information or planning data.Īttach the file to a page from the More actions menu when viewing the page, or use the Files & images tool in the toolbar to upload the file.Here’s a VLOOKUP question for you: What happens when the lookup value includes extra spaces? For example, a few trailing spaces, or leading spaces, or, extra spaces in the middle of the text string.
As a VBA function, you can use this function in macro code that is entered through the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor. It can be used as a VBA function (VBA) in Excel. The RTRIM function is a built-in function in Excel that is categorized as a String/Text Function. The Office Excel macro embeds your spreadsheet in the page, rather than showing a simple preview. The Microsoft Excel RTRIM function removes trailing spaces from a string. There unfortunately isn't a short-term fix, as we do need to move off the old Excel macro, but we'll keep working on a better solution for the Excel macro If you're having real trouble with the new file viewer in the Excel macro, comment on this issue and let us know. In saying that, we, of course, genuinely care about every user's experience with Confluence, and always want it to be the best. We need to proceed with the rollout so we can move forward with the infrastructure changes that have a much wider impact than this macro.
So why are we proceeding with the rollout? We're making infrastructure changes for the overall benefit of Confluence users, but they mean that we can't keep the old Office and PDF macros working much longer. There are some known issues with it right now, which are detailed below. We've received feedback that the Excel macro doesn't meet expectations in some cases.
This is great for situations where you can't simply copy the content into the Confluence page, because you want to preserve formatting or other Word functionality.Īttach the file to a page from the More actions menu when viewing the page, or use the Files & images tool in the toolbar to upload the file.ĭelete the file from the page if you don't want it to show up as an attachment when others view the page. The Office Word macro embeds your document in the page, rather than showing a simple preview. I was wondering if anyone here had any suggeststions on how this code might be improve. However, this macro often runs very slowly and causes to crash pretty often. This lets you maintain the formatting, animations, and formulas from those programs and share them easily in Confluence. I have a macro that I run to clean, trim, and proper some of my excel sheets. Rather than copying and pasting that content into Confluence, you can attach the file to your page and use the macro to show it to your page viewers without anyone having to have Office installed. People compose content using a variety of tools.