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    Excel List

    Hello all, I'm relatively new to using excel, only the past couple months and most everything I have been able to figure out myself but this one has me stumped. I have a huge client list that I need to only draw about a third of the names from to make a new separate list. Is there anyway to do this short of copying and pasting each name and address individually. The main list is in alphabetical order right now but in terms of sorting, there is no one zip code or city to go by. Any help would be great. Thanks

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    Re: Excel List

    jsdunn23,

    Welcome to the forum!
    How would Excel know which clients from the list you need returned?
    Hope that helps,
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    Re: Excel List

    I don't know. The best I can come up with is going through and highlighting them all and copying and pasting them to a new sheet. Its just that its a couple thousand names and addresses and I wanted to see if there was an easier way.

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    Re: Excel List

    jsdunn23, as tigeravatar is alluding to, if there is nothing special or unique about the clients you want extracted from the list, it will not be possible to give Excel a "rule" by which it will know what ones to extract. If you cannot add, for example, a category field (which may be useful not just now, but in the future too), then you could perhaps save yourself a little effort by highlighting just one field (eg surname) in each client that you want to extract. When that's done, Excel can filter by colour, and you can copy the list in one action, rather than by copying and pasting each client as you go through your list.

    Hope that helps.
    Brendan.


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