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Help with Formula
Jdsims
Hi, it sounds like you need to do a VLOOKUP or even an XLOOKUP. I'm not too familiar with XLOOKUP so you might want to search tutorials on that but I can help with VLOOKUP. Let me know if this helps.
The easiest way I learned until I got a hang of how to create the formulas is as follows:
First, right click on the cell you want the information. There will be a bar that says "Search the Menus" and start typing VLOOKUP as below.
You want to click on the first one and a table will appear like below
Lookup_value would be, in your case, E2.
Table_Array would be where the information is pulling from. If the information is on the 2nd workbook, you'll want to go into that 2nd workbook and highlight the entire table. For example, if you are using Columns A-D, highlight everything.
Col_index_num: Here you will enter a numerical number. In your case, you want the information to generate the name of the company. You will need to figure out in which column the name of the company is. Think of column A as #1, column B as #2, etc... if the name of the company is in column B, in Col_index_num, enter 2.
Range_lookup: if you want an exact match, enter FALSE.
Once you have everything, press ok and it SHOULD give you what you need. If I did not explain this well enough, there are plenty of tutorials on youtube and I'm sure they'll be able to explain way better than I could! Hope this info helped!!