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How do i search for wide variety of values and add "S" to a Column in excel


Sorry if question is hard to understand. basically i am going through our inventory at work and i need to mark specific part numbers with an "S" in column H. is there a way to use "sheet 1 column A" as a search for in "total inv" column A"

i want to use the info to the right to search column A on the left and add an S in column H to any part number that matches

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Solution

  • If Sheet1 is in the same workbook (which despite the picture, I assume it is), then a COUNTIF() will help.

    In your Column H, Row 1 (cell H1) you can put

    =Countif(Sheet1!A:A, A1)
    

    This will count how many times the part number in cell A1 appears in column A of Sheet1.

    You can see you either get a 0 or some number. So we can wrap that Countif() formula in an If() to test if it's 0 or not. If it's not 0, then we can output an S:

    Update cell H1 to:

    =If(CountIf(Sheet1!A:A, A1)>0, "S", "")