Excel issue with Function VLOOKUP

Question

I know this might not be the best place to ask a purely excel question, but. I have a table with the following headers: Number, Date, Name. In another file I need to link th

Answer 1

I assume that B1 holds the name of the person. In that case, you need to adjust the range for the lookup table, so that it starts in the column with the name, i.e.

=VLOOKUP(B1,[Workbook1]Sheet1!$C$1:$D$27,2,FALSE)

EDITTED : Change the column to 2 to get the date