excel scripting??

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June 9th, 2003, 11:50 AM

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excel scripting??

Hi,
would it be possible say, if you had an excel file with 2 sheets, to loop around all the names in sheet 1, search search 2 for these names, and if a name is present in sheet 2, to tick a cell in sheet 1? for example:
sheet 1 looks like:
ID Name Address
1 J Smith England
2 B brown Wales
............................... and so on
and sheet 2 is the same, could one write a program that searchs sheet2 and ticks a cell beside the name of J Smith, if he is in it?

hope that makes sense,

thanks

V

June 9th, 2003, 11:36 PM

mohecan

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Yes it is possible.
You could also use a simple lookup function in the sheet.

Code:

i.e.
=IF(LOOKUP(SheetOneName,SheetTwoNames)=SheetOneName,"tick","not there")

Where SheetOneName is the range in Sheet One containing the names, and SheetTwoNames is the range in Sheet two.

Hope this helps.

To do it in VB, you'd have to use a "for" loop, which becomes a little more complicated.

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