Hi there,

I was hoping for some help to make my life a lot easier using Excel...



So essentially if I have two excel sheets, one with two columns (names and phone numbers), and another with just names, is there any way for me to compare the two, so I can find the phone numbers of all the names that are in both?

I presume there will be a really easy way to do this - I just have no idea how!

Thank you in advance

Hi

an easy way ? I'll let you be the judge of that . See http://www.get-digital-help.com/2009...rom-two-lists/

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you can do it with
1) VLOOKUP()
2) INDEX() MATCH()

type the below formula in sheet2 cell B2
(suppose in Sheet1, names are mentioned in column A and phone numbers are mentioned in column B)

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!A:B,2,false),"")

here ...
A2 = is the name on Sheet2, whom phone number u want to search
A:B = is a range on Sheet1, where your data exists
2 = is used to get data from 2nd column of range
False = in your case, it will be.