I have three excel spreadsheets and I don't how to do anything with excel. I need to find a way to associate IDs from one column to another column.
I have a column called "Display Name" and I have 2 columns in another worksheet called "IDs" and "Display name".
I want to compare the "Display names" from the first spreadsheet to the "Display names" on the second spreadsheet. I then I want to pull all the ids and match them based on there name. I have over 1000 and don't want to do this manually.
I copied the IDs to the first worksheet. Here is a picture of what I am trying to do:
Any ideas or links to help me get started would be awesome. I literally don't know anything about excel. I tried vlookups but I kept getting either a name error or a ref error.
Thanks for your time,
Try INDEX()/MATCH() like-
=INDEX(O:O,MATCH(A2,P:P,0))
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Think I might be reaching a bit here, but I’m trying to find a way of sending / submitting cell values in excel to other cells. Here’s the example;
In a cell I have a car name
I’ve set my workbook up to use this cell as a field to enter data and the system calculates where what I enter into a separate table, and returns a confirmation that the car I want to look for exists. I might then delete the data in the field to repeat the search. Here’s what I’m trying to solve…
If the car doesn’t exist, I want to somehow send or copy the data from the field (by clicking something or a formula) and send it into another table automatically to list as “cars that were searched for but didn’t exist” type area, how could I do this?
Many thanks
I'm making an excel sheet for a group of people to work from. They will be adding entries identified by a unique alphanumeric string. I would like the entry of a repeated string to result in an error message, or ideally in the new entry overwriting the old.
Thanks for the help.
Using data validation.
Highlight all the cells from the second row to the bottom of the page. Click data validation on the data tab. Choose Custom and put in the following formula:
=ISERROR(MATCH($A2,$A$1:$A1,0))
Changing A to the column you want.
Now when I try to type a duplicate I get an error and cannot proceed till I fix it:
I have an Excel file including thousands rows as follow. First column includes names and second column include group of each. I want to have all names belong to group "A" at another sheet dynamically. because name and group list may be changes. In other words, what command or function I should use to list all names belong to group "A"?
There are 3 ways to do this. The options are below. One thing you did not include in your question is what the results should look like.
Equations like =FILTER(A:B,B:B="A")
Pivot tables to use this convert data to table, then create pivot table. This requires refresh when new data is added.
Power query to use this convert data to table, then go to Data>From Table/Range. This requires refresh when data is added but you can change the "connection properties" under Data>Refresh All˅.
Now if you want all in group "A" to be listed with in one cell, then I would use option 3 with groupby as talk about here.
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I have an excel file with two sheets. The second sheet (Report) contains data validation cells based on the first sheet (Data). From the second sheet, the drop-down list that displays in the Select XXX depends on the selection in the Generate Report. When the Generate Report is set to anything beyond the first five in its list, the "Select XXX" displays year as a default list (no problem with this) via the code ...INDIRECT("Year").... The problem is that excel does not allow for addition of more code (seems I hit the limit). The question is - how can I manipulate this code to accommodate every option in the Generate Report? or perhaps, is there another method to implement?
The data validation source code for the drop-down list is =IF($B$4=Data!$Q$5,INDIRECT("Client"), IF($B$4=Data!$Q$6,INDIRECT("Month"), IF($B$4=Data!$Q$7,INDIRECT("Product_Service"), IF($B$4=Data!$Q$8,INDIRECT("Sector"), IF($B$4=Data!$Q$9,INDIRECT("Trans_Type"),INDIRECT("Year"))))))
Please, see the sample file at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKkGHjlJzLQqx4J9kyd_bCKG4r0Q7HkG/view?usp=sharing
What you could do is put the range names in column R, and VLOOKUP them:
=IFERROR(INDIRECT(VLOOKUP($B$4,Data!$Q$5:$R$9,2,FALSE)),INDIRECT("Year"))
You could then have as many item lists as you wish.
So I'm working on a google sheet project where I and a few others will be keeping track of every movie we watch and then scoring it from 1-10. Since this is a long-term project, the list of movie titles will get quite long and I'm trying to think of a way to notify the inputter if the movie title they're writing already exists further up in their column. Assuming it's an if-statement of some sort but very new to excel and google sheets.
Anyone have any ideas?
You might try to create validation rule for the range of cells. Right button click on the cell -> Data Validation...
Or see the link below for details
Google sheet value validation
Same solution might be implemented for MS Excel sheets
I have used conditional formatting for this. Lets say movie names are in column A. The below code would highlight duplicate entries.
=COUNTIF(A:A,A1)>1
The only issue is if there is a Typo in the movie name you could still end up whit duplicates. Example