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    Cross Reference between documents

    I think this is a cross reference question, not sure though.

    I have an excel document of about 5,000 clients/rows (containing names, addresses, lease numbers, and product numbers among 9 other things). In a new blank document I have about 300 random clients and I only need 4 columns (name, product number, model number, and lease expiration date). My biggest problem is there is no sort order I can put them in and I have to go manually hunting for each client in the list of 5,000 to find the one I need.

    I really don't want to have to CTRL+F each person from the list of 5,000 and manually copy and paste each column I need.

    Do I need a macro? IS there an easier way? Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thanks again

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    Re: Cross Reference between documents

    Try using the VLOOKUP operator.
    open the attachment to see if that makes any sense for you..


    Basically VLOOKUP is saying - "go look for this (A2, or whatever) in this other file (or tab). When you find it, bring back the data for that row that's in column 6 (or 8, or 10)
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    Last edited by Hang Glider; 01-24-2011 at 10:18 PM.

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