Automatically adding names to list

**HarleyRider** · 12-31-2017, 12:42 PM

I run a football pickem contest and have been working on collecting some historical data. I have a sheet in the workbook called "Year Sort" that has each year of the game in separate columns across the sheet. I then have a page called Players-annual scores where I have an alphabetical list of all players. We have new players every year, and what I'm trying to do is get Excel to recognize a name that is NOT on the Annual Scores list and automatically insert that name into the list. It would be nice if it would sort alphabetically as well but that's not a must have. I'm attaching some pictures of what I am using to make it easier to understand. Thanks for any help anybody can provide

**AliGW** · 12-31-2017, 12:42 PM

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? We are not able to work with or manipulate a picture of one and nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired results are also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.

**Glenn Kennedy** · 12-31-2017, 12:43 PM

Blurry pictures aren't any use.

Will you please attach a SMALL sample Excel workbook (10-20 rows of data is usually enough)? Please don't attach a picture of one (no-one will want to re-type all your stuff before starting).

1. Make sure that your sample data are truly REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired solution is also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential information is removed first!!

4. Try to avoid using merged cells. They cause lots of problems!

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment. So, to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: Just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

**HarleyRider** · 12-31-2017, 01:17 PM

attached workbook. There's nothing in it that is secret or anything. It's just a list of names with scores that likely won't matter to anybody but me.

Thanks for the help.

**bakerman2** · 01-01-2018, 04:07 AM

This is just straight forward.
It compares year 2016 column on sheet year sort with names on players annual and adds names that are missing.

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**HarleyRider** · 01-01-2018, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by bakerman2

This is just straight forward.
It compares year 2016 column on sheet year sort with names on players annual and adds names that are missing.

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so this is a macro that I can include that will solve the name problem. You specifically mentioned 2016, but I need this to work with each year and future years as I had results to it. Is this going to grab names missing from each year and put them on the sheet?

**bakerman2** · 01-01-2018, 07:26 PM

This one will give you a sorted list of all unique names on yearsort and put result on players annual column W.
The only thing you have to do is copy and paste result in Column B ofplayers annual.

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**josephteh** · 01-01-2018, 11:24 PM

Use PivotTable... but first, reformat your data and format it as a table.

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