1. Find value1 (sheet2) & write corresponding col value to corresponding col of value1 (Sheet1)

[Casim]

Hi All,

Firstly sorry about the convoluted title - i really had trouble trying to narrow the issue without pictures

I hoping someone may be able to help me with the following task.


Sheet1 has a list of users with their corresponding payroll numbers.

Basically I just want to write their corresponding cost centre from Sheet2 into column C of Sheet1

	A	B	C
	Name	Payroll	Cost Centre
1	Peter	10001	{get cost centre using payroll from sheet2}
2	Aadi	10002
3	Judy	10003
4	Patrick	10004
5	Ajay	10005
6	Jason	10006
7	Stuart	10007

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Sheet2 has an array of cost centres & corresponding payroll numbers.

	A	B	C
	Cost Centre Number	Payroll
1	1111	10001
2	1111	10002
3	1111	10003
4	1111	10004
5	2222	10005
6	2222	10006
7	2222	10007

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Yes I know this is probably Excel 101 but I have tried to research it with vLookup, VLookup Match and VB - I'm just not an Excel person.

Thanks in advance.
Casim.

 

[Michael M]

Try

<b>Excel 2003</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">Name</td><td style=";">Payroll</td><td style=";">Cost Centre</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">Peter</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10001</td><td style="text-align: right;;">1111</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">Aadi</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10002</td><td style="text-align: right;;">1111</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style=";">Judy</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10003</td><td style="text-align: right;;">1111</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style=";">Patrick</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10004</td><td style="text-align: right;;">1111</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">6</td><td style=";">Ajay</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10005</td><td style="text-align: right;;">2222</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">7</td><td style=";">Jason</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10006</td><td style="text-align: right;;">2222</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">8</td><td style=";">Stuart</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10007</td><td style="text-align: right;;">2222</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C2</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B2,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C3</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B3,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C4</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B4,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C5</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B5,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C6</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B6,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C7</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B7,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C8</th><td style="text-align:left">=INDEX(<font color="Blue">Sheet2!$A$2:$A$8,MATCH(<font color="Red">B8,Sheet2!$B$2:$B$8,1</font>)</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[Casim]

Firstly - thanks Michael, for your reply. It is much appreciated.

I tried the solution on my spreadsheet and it works a treat until i try to adapt it to my data.

So I tried to cut and paste my values into the fields or your working example and it failed.

So I'm guessing my data is carrying some junk with it or something.

I tried cleansing it by pasting into Notepad and then pasting into Excel and still returned the last value in the column - strange.
I also tried exporting the data as a tab deliminated TXT file and then re-importing but still it failed.
I've tried changing cell format

I'll keep trying - any suggestions?
Casim