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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - vlookup does not return results if string includes special characters"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143116">143116</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>vlookup does not return results if string includes special characters
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>LibreOffice
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>7.3.0.0 alpha0+ Master
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Calc
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>roberg@iafrica.com
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        <pre>Description:
This seems to only happen with certain special characters (including ( open
bracket which is used all the time in company names

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create lookup table
2.create list of items to look up
3.use vlookup


Actual Results:
4.gets #N/A 

Expected Results:
Should get successful result, regardless of what is in string


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-GB
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes

Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha1+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 162f5a20095c6937030d23ee03fb8f72c51eefa1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time:
2021-06-06_16:55:45
Calc: threaded</pre>
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