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Combining data from 3 different data sets with common ID's onto a summary sheet in specific places
hello, I have 3 sets of data, they each have 2 columns, one with an ID number and the other has a score in it. I want to be able to be able to pull the scores from each data set that relate to an ID ...
Assuming this is just a one-time thing, I'm going to give you a less than elegant solution. I'm sure there are Power Query methods, but my sense is that you're more or less a beginner with Excel and so Power Query may be a step too far.
This involves
1. just copying all the IDs into a singe column.
2. using the UNIQUE function (new to Excel so you do need the most current version of Excel) to get just a single instance of each ID
3. unnecessary, but I used SORT with UNIQUE to sort the IDs into order
4. Use VLOOKUP to get the scores from each data set.
As I said, it's not the most elegant--Power Query would be that--but it'll work. I used your example data in the attached.