I have two lists in separate spreadsheets, illustrated below. How do I find
a match using the Amount1 field as the key, and match to the second list with
the correct batch number? Both lists are unequal in the number of records.

Thanks for any help.

Amount Batch Number Amount1 (key)
3.45 8123953001 3.45
3.88 8123971001 3.88
4.40 8123872001 4.40
4.43 8123A42001 4.43
4.45 8123970001 4.45
5.03 8123681001 5.03
5.15 8123839001 5.15
5.49 8123571001 5.49
5.49 8123803001 5.49
5.49 8123804001 5.49
5.49 8123983001 5.49
5.49 8123A52001 5.49

assuming your data are in Sheet 1 and the 'Amount 1 (key' value are in A2
down on another sheet put this in b2 and drag down

VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$2:$B$13,2,FALSE)

Mike

"JHL" wrote:

I have two lists in separate spreadsheets, illustrated below. How do I find
a match using the Amount1 field as the key, and match to the second list with
the correct batch number? Both lists are unequal in the number of records.

Thanks for any help.

Amount Batch Number Amount1 (key)
3.45 8123953001 3.45
3.88 8123971001 3.88
4.40 8123872001 4.40
4.43 8123A42001 4.43
4.45 8123970001 4.45
5.03 8123681001 5.03
5.15 8123839001 5.15
5.49 8123571001 5.49
5.49 8123803001 5.49
5.49 8123804001 5.49
5.49 8123983001 5.49
5.49 8123A52001 5.49

Mike H, thanks for the reply. However, I had already tried this. The
problem is it doesn't recognize the other batches with the duplicate amount
for 5.49. Vlookup will only match the first batch and repeat that reference
for the other 5.49 items.

"Mike H" wrote:

assuming your data are in Sheet 1 and the 'Amount 1 (key' value are in A2
down on another sheet put this in b2 and drag down

VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$2:$B$13,2,FALSE)

Mike

"JHL" wrote:

I have two lists in separate spreadsheets, illustrated below. How do I find
a match using the Amount1 field as the key, and match to the second list with
the correct batch number? Both lists are unequal in the number of records.

Thanks for any help.

Amount Batch Number Amount1 (key)
3.45 8123953001 3.45
3.88 8123971001 3.88
4.40 8123872001 4.40
4.43 8123A42001 4.43
4.45 8123970001 4.45
5.03 8123681001 5.03
5.15 8123839001 5.15
5.49 8123571001 5.49
5.49 8123803001 5.49
5.49 8123804001 5.49
5.49 8123983001 5.49
5.49 8123A52001 5.49

Hi,
The Lookup value has to be from a list of unique data.
When your lookup value is 5.49, which batch number do you actually want
returned?
Also, something I didn't understand from your original post, You said you
had 2 lists in separate spreadsheets, but your data is arranged in 3 lists
(Amount, Batch Number, Amount 1)
Regards - Dave.