Vlookup and Trial Balances Function and Example
We will use the following parameters in the Advanced Filter dialog box:
- Action: Copy to another location (so that we can see the original and new lists)
- List range: $A$1:$B$108 (click in the List range field and select the entire range where we copied accounts and descriptions)
- Criteria range: Leave blank
- Copy to: 'Step 3b'!$F$1 (click in the Copy to field and select cell F1; this is where Excel will paste the list of unique values)
- Unique records only: Check this box:
Click OK and you will see the following result (tab Step 3b in the file):
If you scroll to row 57, you will see that the lists in columns F and G ends there. That is because Excel only pasted unique records from the list in columns A and B. In other words, we combined the two trial balances and deleted all duplicate accounts.
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