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BigDistance
BigDistance

Reputation: 135

Microsoft Excel: Using Lookup with another sheet

At work I have a list of products with a unique product code and the manufacturers name.

In a separate document I have a list of products we have in the shop floor, as well as our custom name for that product.

I want to populate the manufacturers spreadsheet with our product name by performing some form of lookup.

I've merged the two Excel spreadsheets to that I have one document, 2 sheets.

Product code format is ABC1234.

ManSheet

ID      | Manufacturer Name | Our Name
ABC1234 | Jolly             | Jilly

OurSheet

ID      | Our Name
ABC1234 | **=VLOOKUP(A1,'ManSheet'!A:A,2,FALSE)**

Could someone please help me with the formula.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Hex
Hex

Reputation: 145

VLOOKUP First things first, you put the VLOOKUP on the sheet you wish to bring back the data to.

VLOOKUP syntax: 

=VLOOKUP(Cell you wish to search, 
range of cells you wish want to check, 
Column on range with the value that you want to return, 
Exact/Approximate match)

So on your "ManSheet" add another column:

ID      | Manufacturer Name | Our Name | LookedUp Column
ABC1234 | Jolly             | Jilly    | =VLOOKUP(A2, Sheet2!A:B, 1, FALSE)

So your lookup should be something along the lines of this, you can then drag this cell down to populate the rows below and do a mass vlookup:

=VLOOKUP(A4, ManSheet!A:B, 2, FALSE)

Upvotes: 1

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