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Do I use a Look up?
I have a column of city names in excel FILE A. In the column directly to the
right of the city, I want a formula to lookup from FILE B and enter the correct county name from another work sheet column. FILE B contains a column of all the possible city names and a column of their county names. I'd be so happy to have some help on this. Thanks. |
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Do I use a Look up?
=vlookup(a2,sheet2!a:b,2)
would be the basic formula. You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes: http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html Wendy wrote: I have a column of city names in excel FILE A. In the column directly to the right of the city, I want a formula to lookup from FILE B and enter the correct county name from another work sheet column. FILE B contains a column of all the possible city names and a column of their county names. I'd be so happy to have some help on this. Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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Do I use a Look up?
Thanks! With a little noodling, it worked.
"Dave Peterson" wrote: =vlookup(a2,sheet2!a:b,2) would be the basic formula. You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes: http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html Wendy wrote: I have a column of city names in excel FILE A. In the column directly to the right of the city, I want a formula to lookup from FILE B and enter the correct county name from another work sheet column. FILE B contains a column of all the possible city names and a column of their county names. I'd be so happy to have some help on this. Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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Do I use a Look up?
I just posted another question -- I want to format the results that returned
#N/A to white so I don't have to look at them. I expected the few #N/A results because there were cities (from other states) that did not have corresponding counties. Maybe and IF function? If there's a VLookup match, if not, return a blank??? "Dave Peterson" wrote: =vlookup(a2,sheet2!a:b,2) would be the basic formula. You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes: http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html Wendy wrote: I have a column of city names in excel FILE A. In the column directly to the right of the city, I want a formula to lookup from FILE B and enter the correct county name from another work sheet column. FILE B contains a column of all the possible city names and a column of their county names. I'd be so happy to have some help on this. Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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Do I use a Look up?
=if(a2="","",if(iserror(vlookup(...)),"",vlookup() )))
It's kind of redundant, but there's not a better way. Wendy wrote: I just posted another question -- I want to format the results that returned #N/A to white so I don't have to look at them. I expected the few #N/A results because there were cities (from other states) that did not have corresponding counties. Maybe and IF function? If there's a VLookup match, if not, return a blank??? "Dave Peterson" wrote: =vlookup(a2,sheet2!a:b,2) would be the basic formula. You may want to read Debra Dalgleish's notes: http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html Wendy wrote: I have a column of city names in excel FILE A. In the column directly to the right of the city, I want a formula to lookup from FILE B and enter the correct county name from another work sheet column. FILE B contains a column of all the possible city names and a column of their county names. I'd be so happy to have some help on this. Thanks. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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