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    Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Sorry in advance, I'm an excel newbie and I'm asking on behalf of the boss since I've had
    good luck with this forum in the past. Hope I can phrase the question properly.

    We have a list of products and their sales figures from 2014.
    We have a similar list of products from 2015, but a few items were added and removed.

    How can I compare sales figures between the 2 years,
    but only for products that exist in both years...
    ignoring products that were added/dropped?

    The results of this comparison could be output to a new column...
    Or maybe just highlighted in the 2015 column, e.g. red = sales decreased, green = sales increased.
    Whatever's easiest.

    Note that the same product names appear under multiple distributors,
    so e.g. Ajax Turner shows Alfredo Roca in one year, but not the other.
    But Aleksey's has Alfredo Roca also, and it appears both years.

    The screenshot may help make it clearer I hope.
    Thanks very much in advance!

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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Please upload a sample of your workbook, not a picture of your data. Pictures are pretty much impossible to edit, and no-one wants to re-type your data for you
    Also, not all members can upload picture files (Company firewalls and stuff) - and, depending on what browser is being used, some pics dont even show up on the forum

    Your workbook should show a small desensitized example of the data you are working with and a manual mockup of the expected results.
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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Do you only want to compare products within the different suppliers?

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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Hey, thanks for the replies. I did the screenshot (with relevant parts blurred) because I thought the boss might balk at putting up actual sales data. But I checked and it should be ok to do a limited example with 2 suppliers.

    Hoya: yes, compare products only within the supplier.

    Attached is the sample workbook with just 2 suppliers. I think the columns were created via pivot table.
    The source data is on sheet 2.
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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Bumping, anyone have any ideas?

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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    In D4 enter this formula and fill down to D31 which will identify all products in the 2014 list that are in the 2015 list for Ajax.
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    In H2 Enter this formula in H2 and fill down which will identify all products in the 2015 list that are in the 2014 list for Ajax.
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    Where you want the total sales for the products in common enter this formula and format as currency:
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    Repeat for Aleksey's as follows:
    Enter in D34 and fill down:
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    Enter in H34 and fill down:
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    Repeat for each supplier.
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    Re: Want to show change in sales between 2 slightly different lists of products

    Here is a different arrangement of your main data and a Pivot Table developed from the new arrangement.
    The pivot table has a filter containing 1 and 2. If you want the products that show in both lists select 2. If you would like to see those that only appeared once from the two lists then select 1. If you want to see everything select ALL.
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