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    Filtering one Column Based on a Keyword in Another Column

    Hey everybody,

    I'm having a tricky issue with Excel. Basically I have three columns: One contains numbers, one contains last names, and one contains full names of people.

    Number Last Name Full Name
    1. Smith Smith,John
    2. Johnson Johnson,Smith
    3. Beal Skywalker,Luke
    Beal,Jane



    I want to be able to filter the last column if the last name of somebody appears in the second column.
    The catch is that the first two columns are on a different sheet from the last column. I need to be able to filter the last column, paste the numbers in, and then unfilter it.

    So right now I have:


    Number Full Name
    Smith,John
    Johnson,Smith
    Skywalker,Luke
    Beal,Jane

    And by the end I need to have:


    Number Name
    1. Smith,John
    2. Johnson,Smith
    Skywalker,Luke
    3. Beal,Jane


    Does anybody know how I could do this? Sorry if this seems a bit convoluted. Also I have thousands of entries for each column, which is why I can't figure this out manually.

    Thanks! :D

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    Re: Filtering one Column Based on a Keyword in Another Column

    I guess a simpler form of this question is: Knowing what number corresponds to what last name in one sheet, how can I translate this to putting these numbers to the corresponding full name on another sheet, leaving blanks for full names that don't appear on the other sheet?

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