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Pull matching data
I have two excel speadsheets. One with names and ID numbers. The other just
has some of the names in the first datasheet. The second speadsheet needs to be updated with the ID numbers that corespond with the names in the first spreadsheet. Is there a way of matching the names from the second sheet with the first sheet and transferring the ID numbers from the first sheet to the second sheet in one fell swoop without having to do it by hand? (There are over 250 of them!) Thanks for the assistance in advance. |
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Yes. Consider using VLOOKUP.
-- Gary's Student "Dax Arroway" wrote: I have two excel speadsheets. One with names and ID numbers. The other just has some of the names in the first datasheet. The second speadsheet needs to be updated with the ID numbers that corespond with the names in the first spreadsheet. Is there a way of matching the names from the second sheet with the first sheet and transferring the ID numbers from the first sheet to the second sheet in one fell swoop without having to do it by hand? (There are over 250 of them!) Thanks for the assistance in advance. |
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And how exactly do I do that? I'm not very familiar with excel. I'm
guessing that I select the column of names in the second workbook and type in =VLOOKUP(?) but then I don't know what to put in the bracets to get it to look up the ID numbers from the first workbook and match them according to the names. "Gary''s Student" wrote: Yes. Consider using VLOOKUP. -- Gary's Student "Dax Arroway" wrote: I have two excel speadsheets. One with names and ID numbers. The other just has some of the names in the first datasheet. The second speadsheet needs to be updated with the ID numbers that corespond with the names in the first spreadsheet. Is there a way of matching the names from the second sheet with the first sheet and transferring the ID numbers from the first sheet to the second sheet in one fell swoop without having to do it by hand? (There are over 250 of them!) Thanks for the assistance in advance. |
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Debra Dalgleish has some notes:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html (for =vlookup()) Dax Arroway wrote: And how exactly do I do that? I'm not very familiar with excel. I'm guessing that I select the column of names in the second workbook and type in =VLOOKUP(?) but then I don't know what to put in the bracets to get it to look up the ID numbers from the first workbook and match them according to the names. "Gary''s Student" wrote: Yes. Consider using VLOOKUP. -- Gary's Student "Dax Arroway" wrote: I have two excel speadsheets. One with names and ID numbers. The other just has some of the names in the first datasheet. The second speadsheet needs to be updated with the ID numbers that corespond with the names in the first spreadsheet. Is there a way of matching the names from the second sheet with the first sheet and transferring the ID numbers from the first sheet to the second sheet in one fell swoop without having to do it by hand? (There are over 250 of them!) Thanks for the assistance in advance. -- Dave Peterson |
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