The Lookup Assistant is designed to find matching data in one list and load in another. For example, if you have a price list of product numbers and prices in one worksheet and in an invoice worksheet you just have product numbers, the Lookup Assistant will match the numbers in the invoice to those in price list.

The Lookup Assistant prompts you for the following information:

The cells containing the identifiers to be looked up. Multiple columns may be specified. The Lookup Assistant will concatenate the columns.

The cells containing the identifiers of the values to be copied if there is a match. Multiple columns can be specified.

The data columns containing the data to be returned if there is a match on the IDs. Multiple columns can be specified

The starting destination column for the matched data.

There are several options to assist you in determining what was loaded or not loaded. You can click on the checkbox that colors the loaded data green. You can also click on the checkbox that colors IDs that were not matched. And, you can have an X placed in any column on the sheets with the IDs being looked up for those that did not get matched to anything. This allows you to filter on the rows containing X's.

You are given the option of either loading matching values, or inserting a simple formulas (ex: =F23), or a VLOOKUP formula to the matching data.:

The Lookup Assistant is fully menu driven and comes with a help file and an exercise file. The Exercise file gives you step by step instructions to help you quickly learn how to use the Lookup Assistant.