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Jay Webb

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Been struggling with making a Excel formula work, I'm using Excel 2007.

In sheet Marriages, I have a column Surname, there are 17 different spellings of McClellan, I need each to have a unique identifier from sheet FF# using the identifier only once per name spelling.

Formula is in sheet Marriages - Column K (K2).

Hope someone can help.

Much thanks!

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Tried to upload and couldn't make it small enough for the limit, so here is a link on my GDrive. Great McClellan Database.xlsx

hope it works.

Thanks for taking a look.

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Hello Jay,

Not sure if this is what you want, it is how I understood it anyway. Please see attached sample.
I created a helper column to count each spelling version and is using that number added with one to get correct row line in the HLOOKUP formula.

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Hello Anders

Wow, thank you, that worked like a charm, never thought of using a Helper to count each first.

I changed on thing sheet 2 was FF# but I read # could lead to problems, changed it to FFN, I see you put in single quotes and it worked fine,

but I removed quotes and #, changed to FFN added helper column and it worked great. I was stumped for a few days, now I can move on to converting it to mySQL database.

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Hello Jay,

I’m glad I could help. Good luck with your work, as a geneaologoist myself it looked like you have dugged up a lot of hard found data. 

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