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counting if data from one collumn is present in another collumn
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In one column I have a list of regristion numbers that I have sent marketing letters to for a particular month. in another worksheet I have a list of all the vehicles that have visited us since the batch of letters were sent: For example: letter sent: visited: adg123 sgd546 bhr546 qwe789 sdf546 req789 erf123 qdg123 sad548.... abc879 dey551 dyr548 erf123..... What I want to be able to do is search each rego in the letters column to see if it comes up in the visited column. I have tried COUNTIF with selecting the RANGE as the visited column and the criteria as = the first entry in the letters column and then filling the column so that it is generating the function for each entry in the letters column but it doesn't seem to work it only picks up some of the entries that are in both columns. I am quite confused and would really appreciate any help as my excel training consists of form 6 IT class and whatever I have worked out and picked up from people along the way. If I can't find an easy way to do this then I am back to checking 1000 or so regos in our customer data base one by one- not a fun job. Thanks, Amelia |
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counting if data from one collumn is present in another collumn
With the Letters in A and the Visits in B
Use =COUNTIF($A$2:$A$6,B2) and copy down the column best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Amelia" wrote in message ... Hi In one column I have a list of regristion numbers that I have sent marketing letters to for a particular month. in another worksheet I have a list of all the vehicles that have visited us since the batch of letters were sent: For example: letter sent: visited: adg123 sgd546 bhr546 qwe789 sdf546 req789 erf123 qdg123 sad548.... abc879 dey551 dyr548 erf123..... What I want to be able to do is search each rego in the letters column to see if it comes up in the visited column. I have tried COUNTIF with selecting the RANGE as the visited column and the criteria as = the first entry in the letters column and then filling the column so that it is generating the function for each entry in the letters column but it doesn't seem to work it only picks up some of the entries that are in both columns. I am quite confused and would really appreciate any help as my excel training consists of form 6 IT class and whatever I have worked out and picked up from people along the way. If I can't find an easy way to do this then I am back to checking 1000 or so regos in our customer data base one by one- not a fun job. Thanks, Amelia |
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