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    One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    I have search for this, but cannot find exactly what I am looking for. A customer has two excel list that they need separated for different purposes. They need these two list combined into a single list for a mailing. They are not very computer savy. I was thinking I can have each list in it own sheet an then have a third sheet combining them. I know how to combined the list as far as adding the fields from the sheets into the combined sheet, what I see as the problem is if they modify one of the two, the third would not reflect that change.

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    I mean there are ways to get around that but I cant really help much in this hypothetical space in the forum.

    From a high level, what I do is build ONE standardized data source, then have TWO sheets for different reporting so you only have to maintain one list. This avoids the problem you are correctly concerned about.

    You can get around this, but it just means at least double the work to maintain both lists and aggregate them to one list in the background (which I have also done, and felt it was a half measure haha).]

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    I guess you could whip up a macro that when run, clears the background list, then combines both lists into a new/refreshed background list.
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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    Basics of spreadsheet design, is to have 1 sheet for all inputs, then have other sheets for reporting/analysis/summary etc. This allows for the use of easier/regular formulas and also opens up the possibility of using Pivot Tables.

    I suggest you take another look at how you are doing things and see if you can adapt the suggestions made.

    If you still have a problem, upload a small (clean) sample workbook (not a pic) of what you are working with, and what your expected outcome would look like.
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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    I understand and that make sense. So do I just query the information to another sheet. I am not quite sure how that is done. I did to a query, before with not filters.

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    Can you upload a small (clean) sample workbook (not a pic) of what you are working with, and what your expected outcome would look like?

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    I tied filter just like some videos showed, but it always gives me a error about the sheet not being active.
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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    Thanks for the file

    Assuming your column headings are inthe same sequence (and all are there), you can use this ARRAY formula in Members A2, copid down and across...
    =IFERROR(INDEX('COMPLETE LIST'!A$2:A$10,SMALL(IF('COMPLETE LIST'!$A$2:$A$10="Member",ROW($A$2:$A$10)-1),ROWS($A$1:A1))),"")

    ...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    Thanks so much for your help. It is working with a few glitches. Something that I have had problems with in the past it the cells that have no information end up with 0 in the copy sheet. The other thing is I have over two thousand names and it is not so hard to enter any data, because it takes forever to recalculate. This CSE and the {} is not something I am familiar with, what is exactly going on there?

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    What exactly does your formula look like? If you are using entire columns as ranges, change that to actual references.

    There are a few ways to "hide" 0's, probably the simplest would be...
    =IFERROR(IF(INDEX('COMPLETE LIST'!A$2:A$10,SMALL(IF('COMPLETE LIST'!$A$2:$A$10="Member",ROW($A$2:$A$10)-1),ROWS($A$1:A1)))=0,"",INDEX('COMPLETE LIST'!A$2:A$10,SMALL(IF('COMPLETE LIST'!$A$2:$A$10="Member",ROW($A$2:$A$10)-1),ROWS($A$1:A1))),""))

    As far as CSE is concerned, others can explain it far better than me...

    These are Array formulas - if you Google you will find plenty of documentation, eg:

    http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ArrayFormulas.aspx

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    I need rows to 3000.

    =IFERROR(INDEX('COMPLETE LIST'!A$2:A$3000,SMALL(IF('COMPLETE LIST'!$A$2:$A$3000="Member",ROW($A$2:$A$3000)-1),ROWS($A$1:A2112))),"")

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    Re: One sheet is the combined total of the 2 other sheets

    OK lets try a different approach, using a helper column in sheet1.

    I put this in L2, copied down...
    =A2&COUNTIF($A$2:A2,A2)

    Then in Member sheet, use this, copied down and across...
    =IFERROR(INDEX('COMPLETE LIST'!A$2:A$7,MATCH("Member"&ROW(A1),'COMPLETE LIST'!$L$2:$L$7,0)),"")

    Change Member to Boosters for the next sheet.

    This should speed things up for you

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