Match Data across Sheets Lesson cover

What this Lesson covers

Enrich one sheet with exact matches while keeping missing and duplicate keys unresolved and visible.

Lesson outline

  1. Audit the key before looking up values

Learning outcomes

  • Preserve lookup keys
  • Audit key uniqueness
  • Use guarded exact matches
  • Keep exceptions visible

Copying fields between worksheets by eye is slow and easy to misalign. AI can build exact-match formulas. For this task, each Inventory row promises one Catalog record, so a returned value is safe only when the preserved key occurs exactly once. A missing key has no answer; a duplicate key can offer conflicting answers. Neither should be hidden behind the first result Excel happens to find. Other tasks may intentionally use one-to-many relationships, so uniqueness is a task rule rather than a universal property of every dataset.

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