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Perfect. I was going about it in the wrong way. I added ISERROR around it to handle when no match was found and am good to go. Thanks very much.
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I am stumped on how to do the following comparison / validation. I have two workbooks that look like this:<br />
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Workbook 1:<br />
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Item &nbsp; &nbsp; Value<br />
A &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1<br />
B &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2<br />
C &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3<br />
D &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4<br />
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Workbook 2:<br />
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Item &nbsp;Value ValueFromOtherWorkbook<br />
C &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;? &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;-- the value I want in this cell is 3<br />
A &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;? &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;-- the value I want in this cell is 1<br />
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The list in each workbook are in a Table - not sure if that matters.<br />
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I have tried the Index and Match functions as well as vlookup.<br />
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Ultimately, I want to check all of the values in Workbook 2 that match up with items in Workbook 1.
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I am stumped on how to do the following comparison / validation. I have two workbooks that look like this:

Workbook 1:

Item     Value
A           1
B           2
C           3
D           4

Workbook 2:

Item  Value ValueFromOtherWorkbook
C         5            ?     <-- the value I want in this cell is 3
A         1            ?     <-- the value I want in this cell is 1

The list in each workbook are in a Table - not sure if that matters.

I have tried the Index and Match functions as well as vlookup.

Ultimately, I want to check all of the values in Workbook 2 that match up with items in Workbook 1.

Perfect. I was going about it in the wrong way. I added ISERROR around it to handle when no match was found and am good to go. Thanks very much.

HowTo: Compare two columns of data in two different spreadsheets and return the value of another column

I am stumped on how to do the following comparison / validation. I have two workbooks that look like this:

Workbook 1:

Item     Value
A           1
B           2
C           3
D           4

Workbook 2:

Item  Value ValueFromOtherWorkbook
C         5            ?     &amp;lt;-- the value I want in this cell is 3
A         1            ?     &amp;lt;-- the value I want in this cell is 1

The list in each workbook are in a Table - not sure if that matters.

I have tried the Index and Match functions as well as vlookup.

Ultimately, I want to check all of the values in Workbook 2 that match up with items in Workbook 1.

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