Matching unequal columns in excel

Question

I have a list of people who have completed an intelligence test (names are stored in Column D) and another alphabetical list of people who have completed a second intelligence test (and their scores) in columns A and B respectively.

The list of people stored in column A is much bigger (N = 3000) than the list in column D (N = 800). I need to match Column A (and their scores) to Column D, whilst keeping Column D in the order it is in.

I have tried various MATCH and VLOOKUP functions but they do not achieve what I would like. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Answer 1

Did you try a straight foward VLOOKUP ?

=VLOOKUP(D2, A:B, 2, 0)

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