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sorting items the same
Looking for best way and how to sort two seperate spreadsheets so that they
arrange in sequence even though not all same items on sheets Thanks Tim |
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I don't see the issue with sorting each sheet individually. Am I missing
something? "Tim H" <Tim wrote in message ... Looking for best way and how to sort two seperate spreadsheets so that they arrange in sequence even though not all same items on sheets Thanks Tim |
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Not trying to sort sheet individually. Need to combine the two sheets onto
one and sort by same item by columns, the 2 sheet are not the same but need to find items that will match up or equal each other side by side in columns. "Barb Reinhardt" wrote: I don't see the issue with sorting each sheet individually. Am I missing something? "Tim H" <Tim wrote in message ... Looking for best way and how to sort two seperate spreadsheets so that they arrange in sequence even though not all same items on sheets Thanks Tim |
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If you have a limited number of columns and a unique key in both lists to match
up... You may want to try this. I'm assuming the key data is in column A of each sheet--but it doesn't have to be. Start a new worksheet copy the key data from sheet1 to A1 of the new sheet copy the key data from Sheet2 under that list in column A of the new sheet. (include a single header row in row 1) Now you have a giant list in column A--but it may have duplicates. Select column A of that new worksheet. Data|Filter|advanced filter copy to another location (Use B1 of that new sheet) Check unique records only Now column B contains a unique list based on both sheets. Delete column A (we're done with it). Now you can use =vlookup()'s to bring back the data that you want from each sheet. You could use column's B and C for the same field from sheet1 and sheet2 and then use a formula in column D indicating a difference between B and C: =if(b1=c1,"","<---") If your key column isn't in column A, then you could do the same kind of thing to build the unique list. But then use =index(match()) (instead of =vlookup()) to return the data. You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes: http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html (for =vlookup()) and http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html (for =index(match())) Tim H wrote: Not trying to sort sheet individually. Need to combine the two sheets onto one and sort by same item by columns, the 2 sheet are not the same but need to find items that will match up or equal each other side by side in columns. "Barb Reinhardt" wrote: I don't see the issue with sorting each sheet individually. Am I missing something? "Tim H" <Tim wrote in message ... Looking for best way and how to sort two seperate spreadsheets so that they arrange in sequence even though not all same items on sheets Thanks Tim -- Dave Peterson |
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