Filling in cells

[Morpheus666]

I am ok with Excel, I can do most what I want when I want to, and the normal online help generally has what I need in it. I am not finding anything for this scenario!
I have a speadsheet with few columns, and about 18000 rows. There is about 832 unique entries in column 1, the rest of the data (in each row) is descriptive, like length, width, (blank).
I can copy column 1 to a second sheet distill down the objects to the unique values(remove duplicates). I then copy in (10 at a time) the name of the designer that will work on that particular unique object.
What I need to do then is fill in all of the blanks on original spreadsheet with the designer from the second spreadsheet.

Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated.

~M

[ben_hensel]

Sounds like a job for a LOOKUP of some kind....

Well, that depends on whether you're going to be filling in piecemeal between existing entries or what, though.

Could you post a copy of your spreadsheet? Filled in with how you want it to look for some of the entries, if you could.

[Morpheus666]

That sounds like a start.... attached is an example
example.xlsx

[Morpheus666]

I tried this for a formula and it worded for the first line, but not the others(when I dragged it down to fill in).
=LOOKUP(A2,Distilled!A2,Distilled!B2)

[ben_hensel]

Okay, try this.

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Then pull down.

[Morpheus666]

That works great! Thank you!

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[Morpheus666]

I already did add to his reputation! I missed that 'solved' part, thanks though, I'll remember that next time.