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I am having two excel sheets, W1 and W2. In W1 i have certain charecters and in W2 i have the 3 corresponding values for the charecters in W1

My Problem is that the text for the charecters are not the same in W1 and W2, but are more or less the similar. The second thing is that the values are not listed in the same order in W1 and W2.

I need to have a logic to arrange all the values for the charecters in Sheet W1. Manually this can be done, but since there are more than 5000 points it will take moe time and accuracy is less.

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I’m not following what needs to be done here – can you clarify – if it helps, you can email me at aidan.heritage@virgin.net - it SOUNDS as though it may simply be vlookup that is needed - if it helps, there is a useful dictionary of excel terms at http://www.aidanheritage.byethost3.com/excel/xlfdic01.xls which includes worked examples of many of the functions in excel including this one.
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