Hope someone can help with this what I'm trying to do is;

Compare a column on a worksheet in Book 1 (Say column A) to a column on
sheet 1 in workbook 2 (Say Column C)
If the value is found in book 2 I want to have the value of column D
populate into book 1 column D

The columns I am comparing are not identical in both books

In D1 (oryour first row ... change A1 accordingly) of sheet 1:

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A1,'C:\Documents and
Settings\John\Desktop\[Book2.xls]Sheet1'!$C:$D,2,0)),"",VLOOKUP(A1,'C:\Documents and Settings\John\Desktop\[Book2.xls]Sheet1'!$C:$D,2,0))

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"dahench" wrote:

Hope someone can help with this what I'm trying to do is;

Compare a column on a worksheet in Book 1 (Say column A) to a column on
sheet 1 in workbook 2 (Say Column C)
If the value is found in book 2 I want to have the value of column D
populate into book 1 column D

The columns I am comparing are not identical in both books

One way ..

With Book2.xls open

In Book1.xls,
Data assumed in row2 down

Placed in D2:
=IF(ISNA(MATCH(A2,[Book2]Sheet1!$C:$C,0)),"",INDEX([Book2]Sheet1!$D:$D,MATCH(A2,[Book2]Sheet1!$C:$C,0)))
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"dahench" wrote:
Hope someone can help with this what I'm trying to do is;

Compare a column on a worksheet in Book 1 (Say column A) to a column on
sheet 1 in workbook 2 (Say Column C)
If the value is found in book 2 I want to have the value of column D
populate into book 1 column D

The columns I am comparing are not identical in both books