matching Multiple columns in Excel.
The vlookup worksheet function will do what you are asking without the need
for VBA progamming.
E1: =vlookup(B1,C1:D6,2,False)
Note: this will bring back the first match. If you have multiple matches in
column C and they might have different values in D, then vlookup is not a
good solution, but there isn't enough information here to know if that
occurs, and if so, what algorithm you would want to use to resolve it.
"Manish" wrote:
What i am trying to do is
if i have 5 columns
A B C D E
25 2 3 a P
22 5 4 b
24 3 10 g A
55 8 15 k
61 9 2 p
7 0 21 d
column A and B have related info. C and D HAS related info . I
want to see if any entry in column C matches any entry in B, Then the
corresponding row VALUE from D should be copied to a new column E in the
same Row as B
Eg
here C1 matches B3 ( value 3) then value D1 which is value a should be
copied to E3 which is same row as B3
C5 matches B1 so the value p should be copied to E 1.
Any help is appreciated.
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