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Comparing two large excel sheets
I have two large excel files. I have to to combine the two files to see who is missing from the first file to the second file. The files are mostly the same besides a handful of differences. I can...
So they all do have ID numbers. It’s an Active roster sheet. So I get the first sheet and shows me all active, when I get the next sheet, shows me all active again but will now have people missing that have been terminated. So I need to compare the two to find who has disappeared from the original sheet compared to the second sheet
Gluksker Hey again,
in that case you can use a lookup function, e.g.:
ID - Sheet 1 | Check | ID - Sheet 2 |
| 1 | =XLOOKUP(A2;C:C;C:C;"Missing") | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | Missing | |
| 9 | Missing | |
| 10 | Missing |
But depending on your machine, this can take some time, or could lead the file to crash.