Hi,

If you wish, you may mail me the workbook at ask(at)ashishmathur(dot)com.
Since this would be a heavy file, please do not mail it to me. Upload the
file somewhere and then mail me the link.

Also, please explain the problem very clearly.

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"CellShocked" <cellshocked@thecellvalueattheendofthespreadsheet. org wrote
in message ...

I have a list of 633 thousand entries that ties a movie number with all
the actors that were in it for about 166 thousand movie titles (numbers).

I want to reference that movie number, and extract a table or list of
only those entries that match that number from this list of all entries.

The returned list will be a list of numbers, which I will then derive a
list of names from an "actor's" sheet. This keeps the data set (file
size) smaller.

Movie_num Actor_num

1 22345
1 38425
2 12345
2 23456
2 34567
3 45678
3 56789
3 67890
3 78901

And then later...

Actor_num Actor_name

This one I can do.Those are just single lookups.

I just do not know how to extract a short list from a longer list.