I need help comparing two sheets and returning a new value- Can't find formula to help
I have two sheets. One contains a full list of employees in an organization. A separate sheet contains a list of people who have completed a survey. I need to compare the two sheets and wanted a formula that could look for the full name and then populate the word Yes into a cell if they have completed the survey.
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Hey @Susan Pratt
Building some examples around André's solution, you might try these:
Not knowing exactly how your data is arranged on the two sheets, I wondered if you needed an Index/Match or only a Match? If the data is the same in both sheets, a MATCH would do. The MATCH function returns a number designating the position in a list.
=IF(AND(Name@row <> "", IFERROR(MATCH(Name@row, {Source Sheet Name column}, 0), 0) > 0), "Yes")
If there is not a match, the NOMATCH# error is mitigated by the IFERROR function. This formula makes the error return a zero, which produces a false IF statement.
If you do need to use an INDEX/MATCH to get to the correct name format, maybe this will work.
=IF(IFERROR(INDEX({Source sheet data you're looking for}, MATCH(Name@row, {Source sheet name column}, 0)), 0) > 0, "Yes") or, you can embed the Index/Match as the criteria within a COUNTIFS and use that with an IF statement.
Will any of these work for you?
Kelly
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Hi @Susan Pratt
I hope you're well and safe!
Are the names unique?
You could use cross-sheet formulas combined with either a VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH structure to connect the sheets, and when you update the source sheet, it will reflect on the destination sheet.
Would that work/help?
I hope that helps!
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Hi!
That was what I was thinking but when I tried a match nested inside a VLookup formula, I am getting the Unparseable message. And now I cannot locate the example formula I was trying to adapt.
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Hey @Susan Pratt
Building some examples around André's solution, you might try these:
Not knowing exactly how your data is arranged on the two sheets, I wondered if you needed an Index/Match or only a Match? If the data is the same in both sheets, a MATCH would do. The MATCH function returns a number designating the position in a list.
=IF(AND(Name@row <> "", IFERROR(MATCH(Name@row, {Source Sheet Name column}, 0), 0) > 0), "Yes")
If there is not a match, the NOMATCH# error is mitigated by the IFERROR function. This formula makes the error return a zero, which produces a false IF statement.
If you do need to use an INDEX/MATCH to get to the correct name format, maybe this will work.
=IF(IFERROR(INDEX({Source sheet data you're looking for}, MATCH(Name@row, {Source sheet name column}, 0)), 0) > 0, "Yes") or, you can embed the Index/Match as the criteria within a COUNTIFS and use that with an IF statement.
Will any of these work for you?
Kelly
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