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Old August 20th, 2004, 12:21 PM
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I have an extensive consolidated donor database which
draws information from 5 different databases. All
entries are identifiable by a number in column A. The
info from database 1 (personal data) features data in
columns A-F. Info from database 2 features data in A (to
identify it)and then in columns G-I. Info from database
3 features data in column A and then columns J-N... and
so on.

Can anybody provide me with a formula that will copy data
from database 1 (columns B-F)onto any other row with a
corresponding identity number in column A? This way,
when I am sorting according to data in column M, for
example, the personal information in columns B-F will be
available too.

The alternative, so far as I am aware, is to copy this
info with thousands of entries - which doesn't excite me
greatly!! Can anyone help?
Thanks.
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Old August 20th, 2004, 12:28 PM
Frank Kabel
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Hi
have a look at the VLOOKUP function for this

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I have an extensive consolidated donor database which
draws information from 5 different databases. All
entries are identifiable by a number in column A. The
info from database 1 (personal data) features data in
columns A-F. Info from database 2 features data in A (to
identify it)and then in columns G-I. Info from database
3 features data in column A and then columns J-N... and
so on.

Can anybody provide me with a formula that will copy data
from database 1 (columns B-F)onto any other row with a
corresponding identity number in column A? This way,
when I am sorting according to data in column M, for
example, the personal information in columns B-F will be
available too.

The alternative, so far as I am aware, is to copy this
info with thousands of entries - which doesn't excite me
greatly!! Can anyone help?
Thanks.


 




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