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Alternative lookup formulas

I was reading Dealing with VLOOKUP and GETPIVOTDATA errors by Ken Puls and noticed he wraps VLOOKUP formulas in IF statements like this:

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(rngToLookup,rngToLookIn,ColToReturn,False),0, VLOOKUP(rngToLookup,rngToLookIn,ColToReturn,False))

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Worksheet matching to return row number

I have a worksheet with a list of company names in column A (we'll call it 'Worksheet1'), and another worksheet with a list of similar company names in column A ('Worksheet2'). Both lists have a header row, so the data starts in cell A2 of each worksheet.

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