Associate External Data with an added column
Hi All, I would like to associate an additional column with some information that I get by using an external query in excel. Whenever I do the refresh, my data columns don't always line up. Is there a way to tie the data to a particular key. For example, I have a customer number and their name that come from a database. I then add an additional column called comments. I then requery the database and my data no longer lines up if more customers were added. |
Associate External Data with an added column
Check for help on the VLOOKUP function; it retrieves data from another table
based on a common key. So you'd get your query results onto another sheet. Then in your main table, you'd put a formula such as: =vlookup(cust#,data_table,data_table_column,false) . That will pull back into your main table the first comments regarding that customer from the query results. If there are no query results for that customer, you'd get back #N/A. You could get around that with a slightly more complex formula: =if(isna(vlookup_function),"",vlookup_function), where vlookup_function is the first function above (without the = sign). Hope this points you in the right direction... --Bruce "cujimm" wrote: Hi All, I would like to associate an additional column with some information that I get by using an external query in excel. Whenever I do the refresh, my data columns don't always line up. Is there a way to tie the data to a particular key. For example, I have a customer number and their name that come from a database. I then add an additional column called comments. I then requery the database and my data no longer lines up if more customers were added. |
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