MS Excel - matching and extracting data

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jryanp Posts 1 Registration date Wednesday 15 December 2010 Status Member Last seen 15 December 2010 - 15 Dec 2010 à 16:43
venkat1926 Posts 1863 Registration date Sunday 14 June 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 7 August 2021 - 16 Dec 2010 à 21:12
Hello - I have an excel workbook (workbook 1) consisting of 4 sheets, each with approximately 400,000 rows of data. I have another workbook (workbook 2) with one sheet of 3500 rows containing the unique information in one column which I'd like to match against.

Column A in all worksheets contains unique numbers from a ticket management system. Workbook 2's column A contains my control sample which I would like to use to search the 4 sheets in workbook 1 for the corresponding matching numbers. I'd then like to pull out the entire rows of matched data from workbook 1.

I don't know if Vlookup is the easiest option here, but hoping someone here knows the best route.

Any help that can be provided would be most appreciated. Thank you in advance.


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venkat1926 Posts 1863 Registration date Sunday 14 June 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 7 August 2021 811
16 Dec 2010 à 21:12
vlookup function will work. But normally vlook up table will be one sheet. if you want to vlookup at more than one sheet a macro is required. will you be comfortable with a macro

otherwise in four columns you can type vlookup formula for each sheet and three of them will be #N/A and one will give you the data.

choose your comfort level.