Excel - Add cell value from another sheet

Question

I have 2 sheets

In the first sheet I have

Names and Countries

and in the another sheet I have Countries and Countries_id

I want to add all "Countries_id" into the first sheet into the appropriate cell

Example

Sheet_one : Names and Countries

Name   Country
Tomy   En 
Aleks  Fr
Jack   En
Monica Fr

Sheet_two : Countries with id

Country   id
En       1
Fr       2

Result :

Name   Country  Country_id
Tomy   En         1
Aleks  Fr         2 
Jack   En         1
Monica Fr         2 

Answer 1

You should be able to do this with a simple VLOOKUP.

If we say that sheet 1 starts in cell A1, then add the following formula in C2:

=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!$A$2:$B$3,2,FALSE)

This says "look up the value found in B2 in the first column of the range on sheet 2 that goes from A2 to B3. When you find an exact match ("false"), return the corresponding value from column 2.

Copy this to all cells under Country_id and you're done.

Note - you need the $ signs for the $A$2:$B$3 since that reference is ABSOLUTE - as you copy down, you want to refer to the same range (could be done by naming the range if you wanted). The B2 value is RELATIVE, so that when you copy down, you get C2, D2, etc.