If you work with multiple Excel workbooks everyday, then here is a handy tip.
Open all the files you frequently use together.- Go to View ribbon and click on Save Workspace
- Give a name to your workspace
- Now, whenever you need to open all these files together, just double click on workspace file in your explorer.
- You are done!
Workspace saves not just file collection, but also window layouts. That means, if you like to arrange your Excel windows in a specific fashion, you can save this arrangement too.
Bonus tip: Use specific filter criteria all the time? Try custom views.
More tips on using Excel & shortcuts.
Do you use workspace feature?
I find workspace feature to be very useful when I need to work with multiple files, especially in cases like file comparison and consolidation. I can save the file layout as a workspace and re-open it whenever I want to resume the work.
What about you? How do you use workspace feature? Please share your tips & experiences with us using comments.
One Response to “How to compare two Excel sheets using VLOOKUP? [FREE Template]”
Maybe I missed it, but this method doesn't include data from James that isn't contained in Sara's data.
I added a new sheet, and named the ranges for Sara and James.
Maybe something like:
B2: =SORT(UNIQUE(VSTACK(SaraCust, JamesCust)))
C2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,SaraCust,SaraPaid,"Missing")
D2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,JamesCust, JamesPaid,"Missing")
E2: =IF(ISERROR(C2#+D2#),"Missing",IF(C2#=D2#,"Yes","No"))
Then we can still do similar conditional formatting. But this will pull in data missing from Sara's sheet as well.