VLOOKUP UP PROBLEM

[Una_321]

Hello!

I have 2 spreadsheets, in the first there is a list of projects with associated IDs, in the second there is a list of contracts associated to the project IDs. There can only ever be one project line yet there can be several contract lines for one project.

I used VLOOKUP to include all info for all lines (both project and contract) into one spreadsheet in order to carry out data quality controls. This works well for cases where there are contracts associated to a project, however when there is no contract line associated to a project, the project line does not appear because the result of the vlookup is looking for project id from project level in the project id at contract level.

I assume VLOOKUP won't work in this case, can anyone suggest another formula or way around this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Yongle]

The obvious way to solve the problem would be to add a "dummy" contract for each project when project is created
Then filter out the ones that are not required

 

[Una_321]

The obvious way to solve the problem would be to add a "dummy" contract for each project when project is created
Then filter out the ones that are not required

Thanks! I did essentially this.