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Excel Lookup Help

Soldato
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I'm trying to compare the contents of two folders by importing the filenames into Excel. I have one spreadsheet which has 'E-ISBN' and 'Book Name'

In another spreadsheet I have imported the filenames of the contents of two folders. One containing the E-Books named using the E-ISBN and another folder of covers, again anmed using the E-ISBN

However these two folders do not match. Some E-books are missing from the E-Books folder. What I need is for the 'Book Name' from the first spreadsheet to be inserted in the third column of the second spreadsheet in the correct row.

Spreadsheet One

E-ISBN Book Name
100 Book1
101 Book2
102 Book3

Spreadsheet Two

E-ISBN Cover Book Name
100 100 (From Spreadsheet One)
101 101 (From Spreadsheet One)
102 102 (From Spreadsheet One)

(There should be tabs separating the above)
 
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Vlookup is what you need.
Sort the spreadsheets by E-ISBN
then in the third column use
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!A:B,2,FALSE)

assuming the E-ISBN is in column A and the lookup sheet of the E-ISBN and book names is on Sheet1 in column A and B
 
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