AdvancedData Cleaning
Find which customers are missing from a list
Use COUNTIF to reconcile two lists and spot what is absent.
COUNTIF · IF
14 min40 points
Why does a lookup fail on clean data?
The situation
An order number in your sheet reads 100234. The same order number in the export reads 100234. They look identical, they are the same length, and XLOOKUP still returns #N/A on every row.
Functions in this exercise
- XLOOKUP — Finds a value in one range and returns the matching value from another — in any direction. Syntax and example
Who this is for
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