AdvancedData Cleaning
Why does a lookup fail on clean data?
Diagnose a match failure where both values look identical on screen.
XLOOKUP
4 min30 points
Half of Harbor Supply's customer list is failing to match the supplier's file even though the names look identical on screen. The exported names carry trailing spaces, which Excel treats as different text and no amount of staring at the screen will reveal.
| Row number | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exported name | Result | Master list | ||
| 2 | Dockside Hardware | Dockside Hardware | |||
| 3 | Fenwick Building | Fenwick Building | |||
| 4 | Alder & Vance | Alder & Vance | |||
| 5 | Riverbend Trade | Riverbend Trade | |||
| 6 | Kemper Outfitters | Kemper Outfitters | |||
| 7 | Halloway Supply | Halloway Supply | |||
| 8 |
Use COUNTIF to reconcile two lists and spot what is absent.
COUNTIF · IF
Find rows whose order number appears more than once in the column.
COUNTIF · IF
Use IF to label each rep as meeting or missing their target.
IF