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maxine
Jul 20, 2017Copper Contributor
how to get a function to recognize a cell with numbers and text?
I am trying to create a formula which will match mailing addresses. I have two seperate lists of mailing addresses, which are in a random order but contain the same addresses. I need a formula which ...
Yury Tokarev
Jul 20, 2017Steel Contributor
Hi Maxine,
you can create a column with unique concatenated values of street number and street name in the source table, then use either VLOOKUP or (even better) INDEX/MATCH to pull data, which would concatenate the lookup value in the same way as in the source table
If you had street name in A1, street number in B1 in both 'Source' and 'Dest' sheets, a suburb in C1 of the 'Source' sheet, and would like to pull the subub into C1 of the 'Dest' sheet, you can concatenate street number and name in D1 of the source sheet using formula =A1&B1, and put the the following formula in C1 of the destination sheet:
=INDEX(Source!C:C,MATCH(A1&B1,Source!D:D,0))
Regards
Yury