I have two sheets which are in one Excel file.
Sheet1 has style numbers with quantities
Sheet2 has style numbers with different quantities.
Most of the style numbers match in both sheets (and they are both sorted alpha) but there are some styles that exist in one sheet and not the other and vice versa.
What is the best way to automatically merge the 2 sheets based on style number, and then add the rows from sheet1 that are not found in sheet 2 as well?
Is it with a vlookup? I know I can use vlookup but then the columns that are not a match in both sheets won't be copied over and I won't know.
You could use 2 VLOOKUPs, one to get the data from sheet2, and one in sheet2 to identify the numbers not found in sheet1 (by putting a filter on all the cells that return #N/A).
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I have an Excel file with three sheets, with data in each sheet organised in the same manner - headers are the same.
Without using VBA (as macros are not allowed by my organisation's security policy), I would like to find all rows from all sheets that meet a simple column value check and show those rows in a separate sheet.
For example:
Sheet2 has,
Sheet3 has,
Sheet4 has,
I want sheet1 to have all rows from sheets 2-4 with Header7 column value = "Hit",
What I have achieved so far is, using an array formula I could get all the "hits" from one sheet in sheet1.
The formula for A2 to A6 in sheet1 is as below, with the ROW(1:1) changing to ROW(2,2) and so on from A3 onwards. Columns B to G use the same formula with range adjusted accordingly.
{=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet4!$A$2:$A$6,SMALL(IF(Sheet4!$G$2:$G$6="Hit",ROW(Sheet4!$A$2:$A$6)),ROW(1:1))-1,1),"")}
What this does is a bit complicated. In short, it creates an array of either FALSE or row numbers based on Hit and then finds the index of the non-false values.
Now, I can solve the last part of combining the idea to include all sheets in two ways (I think).
Have another temporary sheet (sheet5) with all rows from sheets 2 to 4. Update my formula in sheet1 to use sheet5 instead of 4.
Have the range Sheet4!A2:A6 etc changed to include a 3D reference like Sheet2:Sheet4!A2:A6. But this doesn't work, and the documentation for 3D reference doesn't mention that it works with array functions.
PS: I don't have Power Query, which seemed to have an easy way to create a new sheet with all rows from multiple sheets, because I work on a Mac (MS Excel for Mac).
I have thousands of entries for the same site names taken between different days. However not all row labels are identical. I just want to select all row labels that are shared among both spreadsheets based on the names contained in column A for example and copy them to a new sheet. Filtering and selecting wont work, theres thousands and different entries between the two. I just want to delete entries that are not shared among both spreadsheets.
I looked through other forums using vlookup but I am not sure i understand the syntax:
e.g. i looked at this forum: Matching two columns from two spreadsheets and grabbing data from one of the spreadsheets
it proposed this solution: =index(sheet2!B1:B3;match(sheet1!G1;sheet2!A1:A3;0)). So this solution join row from 2nd sheet to row first sheet. If column G 1st sheet and column A 2nd sheet are the same then you can use this to match. Place formula in column H 1st sheet. With this formula you will fetch data from column B 2nd sheet to column H 1st sheet.
I dont think this is the case since the positions of similar row values in both columns differ. I just want to know what labels are shared among both and delete entries that dont share those names
example of output
Yes vlookup is the key because if you lookup something in spreadsheet1:colA to see if it is in spreadsheet2:colA if it is not present you will get a null value. Then you can filter out these nulls to get only the list of rows which share the column A value in spreadsheet2. You will also need to repeat this in spreadsheet2.
For context, assuming the image you posted covers cells A1:C6, and your highlighted cells are A4:C5 then:
In sheet1 cell D3 put =VLOOKUP(A3, Sheet2!A:A, 1,0) and copy down for the rest of column D, and in sheet2 cell D3: =VLOOKUP(A3, Sheet1!A:A, 1,0)
IF the vlookup finds a match, this will give the exact same value in columnD which is present in both spreadsheets, otherwise it will give #N/A. Then you can filter those out.
(By the way the syntax for the sheet name depends on whether you have spaces in the name so Sheet1!A:A but 'Sheet 1'!A:A, I usually get these by highlighting them so excel does the work of naming the worksheet).
A side note, I would drag both worksheets into one file, you certainly can perform vlookups between different files, but this then relies on the exact file path so if you ever move either file, the vlookups will break and give you errors. I only ever vlookup within the same file.
I work in office Excel online at it seems it is different than "regular" office. I have a standard case of two excel sheets that contain two matching columns both A columns (starting with 2 row, first is title of row). In first sheet I need to add second column value from second sheet where values from A match. This seems easy but, for some reason in online office this simple formula does not work:
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!$A$2:$B$4170,2,0)
this gives just N/A result although matching value in Sheet2 exists.
Column is in both sheets A, with title sku in row 1. Second sheet contains additional data in column 2 (B) which I want to put in F column of Sheet1 using this formula.
Can you tell me why this doesn't work? IS office.com different in term of formulas?
Also, when I pull down this formula this A starting number in "Sheet2!$A$THISNUMBER" gets bigger, like
=VLOOKUP(A3,Sheet2!$A$3:$B$4170,2,0)
I don't know what formula to use to verify that the numbers in one cell in sheet one are the same with numbers found in sheet 2 arranged in columns. I tried with vlookup but that works only if I search between cell to cell, rows to rows or columns to columns. Can i use a formula/several to find what data I am missing from one cell to several rows? Thanks
Use
=(COUNTIF(E2:E100,A1)>0)+0
instead of
=VLOOKUP(A1,E2:E100,0)
where A1 houses the lookup value and E2:E100 is the first column of the lookup table of interest. Adjust the ranges to suit.
(source: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/10000-how-compare-value-list-values-see-if-fir.html)
I think this could help you too: https://superuser.com/a/601421
I have a worksheet in Excel 2013 with two sheets: Sheet 1 and Sheet 2. I am applying a formula in both the sheets in the same column (G). The data is in more than 100,000 rows that's why I can't put it in one sheet only.
The problem is that I want to use VLOOKUP in both sheets in a way that the function looks up in both sheets in the same columns (arrays) i.e. A and B columns in sheet 1 and sheet 2 and get the value from column B i.e. column 2 within VLOOKUP function.
How can I add reference to the other sheet?
I doubt a complete solution is possible with VLOOKUP because, for instance, the corresponding ColumnB values may differ even where a ColumnA value is the same on both sheets. So without VBA (or possibly merging your sheets) you may have to compromise, so I offer only a partial solution, based on Excel 2007.
This 'looks up' in the 'other' sheet and only defaults to the 'same' sheet where the first attempt is unsuccessful. It uses INDEX and MATCH because likely quicker than VLOOKUP for high volumes. The formula I have applied for Sheet1 (in G1 and to be copied down) is:
=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet2!B$1:B$6,MATCH(E1,TwoArray,0)),INDEX(B$1:B$7,MATCH(E1,OneArray,0)))
where the OneArray and TwoArray are named ranges for parts of ColumnA for the two sheets and the link values are expected in ColumnE (the formula in Sheet2 is similar):