samztheman
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I am trying to get information from a table in workbook 1, and have it dynamically update in another table on workbook 2.
I've tried everything, hours and hours No luck. Vlookup, index match, simple index. They keep returning huge errors.
Please help me wonderful community of Mr. Excel!
I can't use data models or power query as there are duplicates(no-no for data model), and my partners on this project have no excel knowledge at all and wouldn't be able to maintain the power query( I can barely get a handle on ensuring the data is clean and nulls are also no-no.) I need a simple answer, and I know its out there. So formula is how I want to go, but I've been failing miserably, and I know there is a crazy easy fix...
Index match with multiple conditions would get me close, but since there are multiple instances where the same person in a year on same project would visit multiple cities) (2015, Project 3, John Willmore visited two cities) index match just returns first City but not second. It also returns weird answers sometimes...
I need it to dynamically go down row.
The closest I got was was with this formula on Workbook 2 in the City Column:
=INDEX('Final Destination.xlsx'!Table1[#Data], 1, 5) which would return Oakland, but when I drag down, it just copies the same row 1, column 5, not row 6, column 5. I have thousands of entries, and I can't change each one. I want to make the formula easy to understand, so all my project partners can get it.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
I've tried everything, hours and hours No luck. Vlookup, index match, simple index. They keep returning huge errors.
Please help me wonderful community of Mr. Excel!
I can't use data models or power query as there are duplicates(no-no for data model), and my partners on this project have no excel knowledge at all and wouldn't be able to maintain the power query( I can barely get a handle on ensuring the data is clean and nulls are also no-no.) I need a simple answer, and I know its out there. So formula is how I want to go, but I've been failing miserably, and I know there is a crazy easy fix...
Index match with multiple conditions would get me close, but since there are multiple instances where the same person in a year on same project would visit multiple cities) (2015, Project 3, John Willmore visited two cities) index match just returns first City but not second. It also returns weird answers sometimes...
I need it to dynamically go down row.
The closest I got was was with this formula on Workbook 2 in the City Column:
=INDEX('Final Destination.xlsx'!Table1[#Data], 1, 5) which would return Oakland, but when I drag down, it just copies the same row 1, column 5, not row 6, column 5. I have thousands of entries, and I can't change each one. I want to make the formula easy to understand, so all my project partners can get it.
Any assistance would be appreciated.