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    Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    Hello, i am doing practice questions for a job interview i have soon, one of the questions asked is "5. Populate the column ?Course Title? using the field ?Course Code? as a reference and columns I to L on the sheet ?Reference Data?".
    what i am stuck on is basically, there are about 35 ish different course codes and corresponding course titles, since you only have about 30 minutes to do this in the actual tests i cant do it the long winded method. I tried using =IFS which would work but would take forever to write out everything. so i am wondering what function to use, the reference data is on the other sheet on the bottom btw. If someone could help me id be so happy!

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    Re: Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    Rather than a long winded IFS I would suggest using Vlookup to look at the course title table

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    Re: Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    Quote Originally Posted by Fluff13 View Post
    Rather than a long winded IFS I would suggest using Vlookup to look at the course title table
    Sorry to be a pain but how would i do this, i am more used to python and i am a bit of a noob at excel.

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    Re: Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    How about
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    Re: Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    Quote Originally Posted by Fluff13 View Post
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    I feel so dumb thank you so much it worked!!

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    Re: Need help with practice job question trying to match text between two tables

    Glad to help & thanks for the feedback.

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