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    How to Auto Fill and Flash Fill an entire row by entering a name in 3rd column

    Hello,
    Im looking for help on how to populate/flashfill a row after the 3rd column. Here is some info of my layout and I will add a picture.

    Column "A" Date.... Column "B" Name.... Column "C" though "AA" (would like to auto populate from the rows above with same name.)

    Any Help will be greatly appreciated.
    Thank you!


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    Re: How to Auto Fill and Flash Fill an entire row by entering a name in 3rd column

    You can write in VLOOKUP formula with IFERROR in all the cells in columns C through AA.
    If the name exists above, it will fill in the data. If not the cells will be blank.

    Something like:

    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B2,$B$2:$AA$100,column()-1,False),"")

    Drag it down and across.
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    Re: How to Auto Fill and Flash Fill an entire row by entering a name in 3rd column

    That Seemed to work Great! One Question if you dont mind;
    In reference of my Picture, Lets say the second entry of Kevin, i added an X, or removed one. When I type the name and hit enter, it populates off of the first entry instead of the last. Can i make it populate from the last entry, or in other words VLOOKUP bottom to top. If that makes sense lol.

    Thank you so much for this, I looked online for about an hour and a half and could not find anything. I will have to learn more into VLOOKUP.

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    Re: How to Auto Fill and Flash Fill an entire row by entering a name in 3rd column

    Looks like VLOOKUP won't work in your case. VLOOKUP , Match etc. will work from top down only.
    Different approach.
    Here's the formula used in attached sample file.

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    Formula entered in C3 and copied across and down.
    When you change values in column C:E for any name, the last value will be copied down.

    let me know if you have any questions.
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    Re: How to Auto Fill and Flash Fill an entire row by entering a name in 3rd column

    You are awesome!!!! I got it to work, although I had to change some of the cell numbers since the names start on row 5. so I pasted it in C7, I have a screen shot.
    I did get a bunch of "0" in the cells. Is that something I did when I changed the formula? I went to File/Options/Advanced/ Scrolled to "Display Options For This Worksheet" section, unchecked the Show A Zero In Cells That Have Zero Value. And that removed the Zeros.

    On your sheet its enabled so want to make sure I didnt mess with something.

    Thank you so much for this, way more advanced then I am capable of lol.

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