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If value = value then populate rows
Let's say the data begin in row 2.
In Sheet 2, cell C2:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, 'Sheet 1'!$A$2:$C$10000, 2, FALSE), "")
And in D2:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, 'Sheet 1'!$A$2:$C$10000, 3, FALSE), "")
Change Sheet 1 to the actual name of the first sheet.
If the first sheet has more than 10000 rows of data, increase 10000 in the formulas.
Select C2:D2, then fill down.
Thank you for the helpful answer.
Would you be able to breakdown the formula after VLOOKUP so I can understand it generically?
Very new to the power of Excel and this will help a lot.
Thank you.
J
VLOOKUP(B2, 'Sheet 1'!$A$2:$C$10000, 2, FALSE)
takes the value of B2 on Sheet 2 and searches for it in the first column of 'Sheet 1'!$A$2:$C$10000, i.e. in column A of Sheet 1. If it finds a match, it will return the value from the 2nd column in that range, i.e. column B on Sheet 1. The fourth argument FALSE specifies that we're looking for an exact match.
If no match is found, VLOOKUP will return #N/A. This is suppressed by using IFERROR - it replaces the error value with an empty string "".