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How to clean one book using data from another?
Hello, I'm an intern and a relative new user of Excel. I've used it before,
but only for simple sorting. Here's my problem: I am using Excel '03 to sort e-mail address lists. I have two separate files, one with names, email addresses, and postal addresses, and a "cleaned" list with all non-working e-mail addresses removed. What I want to know is, is there any way to use the second list to clean the first list of all the people whose e-mail addresses no longer work, without manually searching through them one row at a time? I have nearly 10,000 names on one and over 7,000 on the other. Thank you for your help! |
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How to clean one book using data from another?
If you are sure that, in each dataset, a specific person is named in exactly
the same way, we could make up a VLOOKUP solution. Alternatively, do the two list have phone numbers that could be used to identify the same person? best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "AFSA Ad Intern" .(nospam) wrote in message ... Hello, I'm an intern and a relative new user of Excel. I've used it before, but only for simple sorting. Here's my problem: I am using Excel '03 to sort e-mail address lists. I have two separate files, one with names, email addresses, and postal addresses, and a "cleaned" list with all non-working e-mail addresses removed. What I want to know is, is there any way to use the second list to clean the first list of all the people whose e-mail addresses no longer work, without manually searching through them one row at a time? I have nearly 10,000 names on one and over 7,000 on the other. Thank you for your help! |
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How to clean one book using data from another?
Thanks for your respose, that sounds like it could be helpful. I am sure they
are named the same way. What is a VLOOKUP solution and how do I use it? I don't really understand the explanation in the help file. Thanks again. Joseph F. Malefatto Advertising Associate Foreign Service Journal "Bernard Liengme" wrote: If you are sure that, in each dataset, a specific person is named in exactly the same way, we could make up a VLOOKUP solution. Alternatively, do the two list have phone numbers that could be used to identify the same person? best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "AFSA Ad Intern" .(nospam) wrote in message ... Hello, I'm an intern and a relative new user of Excel. I've used it before, but only for simple sorting. Here's my problem: I am using Excel '03 to sort e-mail address lists. I have two separate files, one with names, email addresses, and postal addresses, and a "cleaned" list with all non-working e-mail addresses removed. What I want to know is, is there any way to use the second list to clean the first list of all the people whose e-mail addresses no longer work, without manually searching through them one row at a time? I have nearly 10,000 names on one and over 7,000 on the other. Thank you for your help! |
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How to clean one book using data from another?
In your 'unclean' workbook, you could make another column which contains a
VLOOKUP formula, looking for the address in unclean workbook to check if its in the clean workbook. If it is, have it return the correct email. If not, set it up to return a blank or error message. Then you could just sort to find all the blanks/errors and remove them. Hope this help. VLOOKUP is similar to LOOKUP (but not the same) if your still having trouble how it works. -- Best Regards, Luke M "AFSA Ad Intern" wrote: Thanks for your respose, that sounds like it could be helpful. I am sure they are named the same way. What is a VLOOKUP solution and how do I use it? I don't really understand the explanation in the help file. Thanks again. Joseph F. Malefatto Advertising Associate Foreign Service Journal "Bernard Liengme" wrote: If you are sure that, in each dataset, a specific person is named in exactly the same way, we could make up a VLOOKUP solution. Alternatively, do the two list have phone numbers that could be used to identify the same person? best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "AFSA Ad Intern" .(nospam) wrote in message ... Hello, I'm an intern and a relative new user of Excel. I've used it before, but only for simple sorting. Here's my problem: I am using Excel '03 to sort e-mail address lists. I have two separate files, one with names, email addresses, and postal addresses, and a "cleaned" list with all non-working e-mail addresses removed. What I want to know is, is there any way to use the second list to clean the first list of all the people whose e-mail addresses no longer work, without manually searching through them one row at a time? I have nearly 10,000 names on one and over 7,000 on the other. Thank you for your help! |
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How to clean one book using data from another?
Maybe time to get an Excel book it you plan to use the application
-- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme remove caps from email "AFSA Ad Intern" .(nospam) wrote in message ... Thanks for your respose, that sounds like it could be helpful. I am sure they are named the same way. What is a VLOOKUP solution and how do I use it? I don't really understand the explanation in the help file. Thanks again. Joseph F. Malefatto Advertising Associate Foreign Service Journal "Bernard Liengme" wrote: If you are sure that, in each dataset, a specific person is named in exactly the same way, we could make up a VLOOKUP solution. Alternatively, do the two list have phone numbers that could be used to identify the same person? best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "AFSA Ad Intern" .(nospam) wrote in message ... Hello, I'm an intern and a relative new user of Excel. I've used it before, but only for simple sorting. Here's my problem: I am using Excel '03 to sort e-mail address lists. I have two separate files, one with names, email addresses, and postal addresses, and a "cleaned" list with all non-working e-mail addresses removed. What I want to know is, is there any way to use the second list to clean the first list of all the people whose e-mail addresses no longer work, without manually searching through them one row at a time? I have nearly 10,000 names on one and over 7,000 on the other. Thank you for your help! |
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