I am needing to align a table containing a column 'reference' in excel with another column 'reference' with more data entries than the table has based on duplicate values. I am having a hard time doing this with MATCH and INDEX. This was possible for only two columns but I am not sure how to do it with an entire table. Example attached as image.
I tried using MATCH and INDEX to align the two columns in a separate column but could not get that to work. just got #reference. Necessary example image
ID | Reference | Misc | reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 | apple | a | orange | |
7 | banana | b | grape | |
10 | apricot | c | banana | |
12 | green bean | d | apple | |
blueberry | ||||
strawberry | ||||
green bean | ||||
apricot | ||||
strawberry |
(the second reference column is not part of the table, the first 3 columns are part of a table.
I would like the result to look similar to this, below.
Where all values are in a table together, and the references are aligned based on duplicate values.
ID | Reference | Misc | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
orange | |||
grape | |||
7 | banana | b | banana |
3 | apple | a | apple |
blueberry | |||
strawberry | |||
12 | green bean | d | green bean |
10 | apricot | c | apricot |
strawberry |
=IF(ISNA(MATCH(B2,$E2:$E$30256,0)),"",INDEX($B$2:$E$30256,MATCH(B2,$E2:$E$30256,0),2))
This is the formula that I tried originally with the real table. The real reference column in the table has 6000 entries and the column on its own has 30,000
This is a SPILL
formula in a cell
=LET(base,E2:E9,
look,B2:B5,
table,A2:C5,
render,IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(base,look,0)),CHOOSEROWS(table,IFERROR(MATCH(base,look,0),1)),""),
HSTACK(render,base))
adjust the base
, look
and table
range to the actual values.