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Imported and cross-sheet ranges return wrong results

Formulas that pull from imported or other-sheet ranges return zero, #N/A or range-size errors instead of the expected values.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

7 public reports · first reported 4 March 2020 · last reported 26 June 2026

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What's going wrong

Spreadsheet users who pull data across sheets with IMPORTRANGE, table references or INDEX and MATCH often get zero counts, #N/A errors, or range mismatch messages.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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