Vlookup to retrieve an ID from table using text match

Posted by Federico Giust on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Federico Giust
Published on 2012-06-01T09:22:50Z Indexed on 2012/06/01 10:44 UTC
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I've got an excel spreadsheet where I would normally use a VLOOKUP.

In this case I need to find the ID of the record when comparing email addresses, so the email address is the unique id here.

For example on sheet 1

    A             B              C            D
Person Id  |  Family Name  | First Name | Email
   #N/A    |  Doe          | John       | [email protected]

On Sheet 2

    A             B              C            D
Person Id  |  Family Name  | First Name | Email
12345      |  Doe          | John       | [email protected]

Basically on sheet 1 I've got 800 records, on sheet 2 450. I know the 450 are in Sheet 1, so I need to find the ids of those, and put them on sheet 1 where I've got lots more data for each person.

What I've tried so far is a VLOOKUP, but I keep getting an error. I'd like to do it with some sort of formula and not using any copy paste and remove duplicates.

Any ideas?

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