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Search and Replace macro for microsoft excel

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I have two workbooks with identical setup.

item name address 1 address 2 address 3
x 12 34 56

I need a macro to search for "x" in the other workbook and replace address 1, 2 and 3 with the addresses in that other workbook. I also need the macro to continue to do this for every item listed in the "item name" column.

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You can use Lookup to do that


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=VLOOKUP(A2,[Book1.xls]Sheet1!$A:$T,5, false)
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Not sure how that replaces my address with the ones in the other workbook.
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Lets say you do if in E, F and G. This gives you address from other book. Then you can use copy and paste special to make it value

then you can delete original b, c and d

you would be using some thing like this


=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A2,[Book1.xls]Sheet1!$A:$D,2, false)) , A2,VLOOKUP(A2,[Book1.xls]Sheet1!$A:$D,2, false))

which basically says if the value is not found in book2, then keep original value else get the updated value
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