How to return a specific serial number when a user has multiple assigned in their name.

darkdelusions

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I currently have 2 sheets of serial numbers sheet 1 has all of the new serial numbers on it and sheet 2 has both old and new serial numbers on. I am currently trying to bring all of the old serial numbers into the sheet 1 but due to the nature of index match and vlookup I am only able to pull in "new serial number".



Sheet 1:
kH05VOj

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Sheet 2:
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Can anyone provide me some guidance on how to get the serial number from sheet 2 if its not in the serial column on sheet 1.
 

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In Sheet2, would the old serial # always follow the new one, in the next row, if it exists?
So in your example, the new serial # is ABCDE and the old one is FGHIJ? Is this correct?
 
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If so, try this.

Formula in D2:
=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!$B:$D,3,0)

Formula in E2:
=IF(COUNTIF(Sheet2!B:B,Sheet1!B2)=2,INDEX(Sheet2!D:D,MATCH(B2,Sheet2!B:B,0)+1),"")

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Excel 2010
ABCDE
1NameEmailPhone NumberSerialOld Serial
2Bob SmithBsmith@Bob.Com555-555-5555ABCDEFGHIJ
3Steve Davesdave@bob.com555-555-5555VXYZ 
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2=VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet2!$A:$C,2,0)
B3=VLOOKUP($A3,Sheet2!$A:$C,2,0)
C2=VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet2!$A:$C,3,0)
C3=VLOOKUP($A3,Sheet2!$A:$C,3,0)
D2=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!$B:$D,3,0)
D3=VLOOKUP(B3,Sheet2!$B:$D,3,0)
E2=IF(COUNTIF(Sheet2!B:B,Sheet1!B2)=2,INDEX(Sheet2!D:D,MATCH(B2,Sheet2!B:B,0)+1),"")
E3=IF(COUNTIF(Sheet2!B:B,Sheet1!B3)=2,INDEX(Sheet2!D:D,MATCH(B3,Sheet2!B:B,0)+1),"")
 
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Then what indicates if it is a new serial # or an old serial #?
 
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Then what indicates if it is a new serial # or an old serial #?


The new serial is provided to me from another tool and statically stored in Column C on Sheet 1 and then on sheet 2 i have about 12000 users and serial numbers and I want to get the old serial. In theory should be something like this but doesn't seem to work and I have tried both table names and Column and row numbers

Code:
=INDEX(Table1,MATCH(1,(Table1[Email]=[Email])*([Serial]<>Table1[Serial]),0),4)
 
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This can me marked as resolved, Once I went back to it and tinkered with the formula I posted above it started working.

Thank your for trying to help Scott
 
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