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    Formula to see if something in a row matches something in the first column

    Hi all,

    I have a spreadsheet with a lot of data which tracks website usage. It's linked to another sheet which I use as a database. What I need is for Excel to look for a specific username in the first column and to return a "Yes" if a certain page name appears in the corresponding row, i.e. has username seen X page.

    The problem I have is that each time a person looks at the website, another row is recorded so my dataset has multiple rows for the same user. It's something like this:
    Username Page Page Page
    Bob Pageone Pagethree Finalpage
    Bob Finalpage Pagefive Pageone
    Bob Pageone Pagefour Pagethree
    Bill Pageone Pagefour Pagethree

    So I need a formula to (for instance) look for Bob and tell me "Yes" if he's seen 'pagefive' and "No" if he hasn't. I've tried various match and index and vloopkup formulae but no joy.
    Any help much appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Adele

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    Re: Formula to see if something in a row matches something in the first column

    I'm sure there must be a neater way but, for the moment, try:
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    Re: Formula to see if something in a row matches something in the first column

    Is this issue resolved?

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    Re: Formula to see if something in a row matches something in the first column

    It is, thank you. I used a couple of other sheets to get there. Countif wouldn't count in multiple columns and there are a lot of columns in the dataset. It would have been ideal to get a one fomula solution but I've managed with a few instead. Thank you for your help

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    Re: Formula to see if something in a row matches something in the first column

    OK, good ... and thanks for the rep.

    You could probably do it with a Helper column, say, column H. In cell H1, you would have, say: "Pagefive" (no quotes) and, in cell H2 down, you would have:
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    With "Bob" (no quotes) in cell G1, you could then use:
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    Obviously, move the Helper column over as far as necessary and adjust the range from B2:D2 to say, B2:Z2 and adjust the location of the search elements as required.

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