How can I make results of a formula values that can be filtered or use vlookup with Excel

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Published on 2012-03-28T12:51:10Z Indexed on 2012/04/01 11:34 UTC
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I am having an issue in that I am using various formulas to move, split data, etc from various sources. The problem is when my final results post to the final destination that I want, I still need to either run advanced filters, or a vlookup with the results. I can’t do this because as an example

if cell A1 shows a value of: A127

the actual cell content is: =RIGHT(A2,FIND(" ",A2&" ")-2)

Everything I read said to copy and paste special values, but this doesn’t work for me as the idea is to have the formulas/macros run everything and eliminating cutting and pasting.

In the case above I have a formula that pulls that info from a spreadsheet that is saved every week. Once it is pulled part of it is cut out in another column. I then need to run a vlookup on those results for data already contained on another tab.

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