Excel data compare and change

Question

I'll try to stay clear. So the problem is I want to change some data based on the cells value. Let say the column A is the price, column B is the base value to compar with (like item001,item002), column C is the value for comparing (item001,item002,etc.) with the NEW price in column D. I would like to find the same value in column B and C, and depending if there is a match,to change the value in right row of column A to value in column D. Was it clear enough? Basicly I have 4 columns, 2 times the codes and the prices of the codes. I want Excel to find the same codes and change the price of the old to the new one. The first two columns with price and codes are much longer then the other 2 columns with new price and the data to compare won't be in the same row for sure.

Probably there is no simple solution, but would help my work a lot. I would appreciate if someone can tell which functions should I use in combination.

Sorry for being a noob, have to start learning from somewhere.

Best regards, Endre Kalmar

Answer 1

So, ...

  |  A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |
  -------------------------
1 |price| ID  |  ID |price|

This is the situation you got?

In column E, put

VLOOKUP(B1; C:D; 2; FALSE)

Depending on your regional settings, the ; might be replaced with a ,

This will give you the price in column D when the value in column B can be found in column C If it cannot be found, you get an #N/A error