How do I join two worksheets in Excel as I would in SQL?

Posted by Joel Coehoorn on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Joel Coehoorn
Published on 2012-05-04T16:20:11Z Indexed on 2013/10/26 22:02 UTC
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I have two worksheets in two different Excel files. They both contain a list of names and addresses. One is a master list that includes other fields, and the other is a list that only includes name and address and an id column that was pared down by another office.

I want to use the 2nd list to filter the first. I know how I could do this very easily with a database inner join, but I'm less clear on how to do this efficiently in Excel. How can join two worksheets in Excel? Bonus points for showing how to do outer joins as well, and I would greatly prefer konwing how to do this without needing a macro.

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