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Fred Smith[_4_] Fred Smith[_4_] is offline
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Default IF conditional to copy column from one spreadsheet to another

Here's what I would do.
Add a column to each sheet which is =Lastname & Firstname. Now you have a
unique name. Let's say this is in column J, and the e-mail address you want
to pick up is in column K. Your Lastname&Firstname combination is in column
A of your other sheet.

To get the address, use:
=vlookup(a1,sheet1!J:K,2,false)

Regards,
Fred

"TagTech" wrote in message
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OK I must have misspoken. 'IF' only returns '0' / 'Yes' or '1' / 'No' ...
that is not what I want at all - what I want may not even be a "Function".

I have two spreadsheets / workbooks whatever you call them ... two
separate
'.xls' entities.

In the spreadsheet I want to modify, I have many columns, three of which
columns are 'FirstName', 'LastName' and 'Email'. 'FirstName' and
'LastName'
have people's names in them; the column 'Email' has no entries in it at
all -
this is the column I want to populate.

In the other spreadsheet, I also have the same three columns but the
'Email'
column does have addresses populating it.

I want to compare 'LastName's and 'FirstName's between the two sheets so
that I get a perfect match. When I do get a perfect match, I want to
populate the empty 'Email' column in the spreadsheet I want to modify with
the correct email address for that unique individual.

In other words, I may have many "Johnson"s in both sheets; "Dale",
"Jimmy",
"Don" - whatever. I want to get the unique, individual email address from
one spreadsheet to populate the other spreadsheet.

-Thanks for the replies.

"Fred Smith" wrote:

Try it this way:
=if(and(e2=sheet1!c2,f2=sheet1!b2),sheet1!a2,k2)

It's unclear for your example what result you want if true, so the above
is
my guess at it.

Regards,
Fred

"TagTech" wrote in message
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What is the formula to copy email addrs from one sheet column to
another
sheet column IF Lname = Lname AND Fname = Fname in the same workbook?

=IF((E2=Sheet1!C2 AND F2=Sheet1!B2),(K2=Sheet1!A2),(K2))

is not getting the job done. Result = #NAME?


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