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Old 01-30-2025, 02:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ArviLaanemets View Post
No need for coding for this.

As start, I'd advice to split the 2nd column to path and file columns respectively (a golden database law - don't keep several types of information in same column/field). This will help not only with current task, but will be useful in future too. In my excample, on sheet Files I added formulas how to do this easily.

Don't use special characters in column names (I replaced Ref# with RefNo).

On Info sheet, I added a RefNo column with formula which returns matching RefNo from Files sheet. Now you can simply set the filter for this column >0 to display all entries where the matching RefNo was found - or set the filer = 0 to display all entries where matching RefNo was not found.

Arvil, Thanks again. Your points are well taken and deserve attention. However, my actual data and requirement is more complicated than simply splitting file paths. My fault for giving such a simplistic example. In a previous reply to Batman, I have posted a better example of what I am trying to achieve.
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