Excel - Matching records based on a common field

Asked By KevinUK on 28-Jun-12 05:37 AM
I got some brilliant help last year from people on this Group, so I thought=
I might try my luck again.

My research involves analysing a third-party database of words and phrases.=
I have a workbook containing 13 worksheets. The first one contains a list =
of 20,000+ line numbers (sequential but with some numbers missing) with a w=
ord and a frequency count for each line number: three columns in total. The=
other twelve worksheets contain items from the database, analysed into 12 =
categories. The common field across all 13 worksheets is the line number.

I need to add the appropriate frequency count (from the first worksheet)in =
a new column, to each of the line numbers in each of the 12 worksheets. I h=
ave tried to Google a solution but have not found one that corresponds to m=
y particular problem. It seems that a combination of INDEX and MATCH might =
be the basis of the solution, but I do not understand how to apply them.

Any help would be gratefully received. Best regards,
Kevin


GS replied to KevinUK on 28-Jun-12 12:55 PM
KevinUK laid this down on his screen :

Have a look at the VLOOKUP() function. It should do what you want.

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Garry

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