Excel Noob looking for help!

[ALEXB99]

Hi people!

This is probably so easy for most of you and I imagine you could do it in your sleep, however after fiddling around I've still gotten no where.

I have an excel sheet, with around 30,000 columns and quite a lot of rows about Pro Cycling and how I rate their performances. Column one has an ID, then the other columns lots of data about the cyclist (not private, just how good they do in my opinion aka in mountains/sprints etc).

Basically I want a seperate sheet where I can type in the Cyclist name/ID and it comes up with the Cyclist and their stats. Obviously this can be done via formulas I think?

As I said, you'll probably be laughing at how easy this is but I'm such a novice and completely stuck, any help/advice appreciated.

 

[Toadstool]

Hi AlexB99,

You say 30,000 columns but my Excel 2016 only has 16,384 so I guess you mean rows?

I don't see any repeated names or Ids so I guess they're unique? If so then Sheet2 would only retrieve 1 row from Sheet1?

 

[ALEXB99]

Sigh, that just shows my incompetency there, yes apologies I meant Rows!

Yes no repeated names or ID's all unique

 

[orsm6]

can you just filter the rider name column for the rider you only want to see?

 

[ALEXB99]

Hi there!

So my problem is, there is a race coming up with around 125 cyclists, so I can't just filter one cyclist/ID, I'd be wanting an easy way to obtain the 125 out of the mass amount of riders on the sheet.

I really hope that's not as confusing as it sounds, I'm pretty bad at explaining.

 

[ALEXB99]

To add a little more context, so here are the riders I'd be wanting to "filter" out: Dookola Mazowsza - FirstCycling.com


Just not sure how to do this in such a mass amount (125 selections).

 

[sandy666]

Use Power Query aka Get&Transform