Creating a list of unique records
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 01:39PM So my insurance guy and client Jack Grove wants to send a mailing to people who have a homeowner policy but do not have car insurance through his agency. If someone has both policies or only a car insurance policy, he will not receive the mailing.
There are any number of ways to do this in Microsoft Excel, but I've attached a modest attempt. Using this method, each record in each list is tagged with an identifier (a combination of name and telephone number). Then the records are compared based on identifier. You can sort a list based on a true/false column, to identify just the missing records.
For more information, check out these Microsoft-generated articles:
Use Excel to compare two lists of data
For an alternate approach involving advanced filtering: How to use advanced filter to exclude records in Excel 2000 and How to use advanced filter to exclude records
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