Transfer Data from One Workbook to Another (SPILL Issue)

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Are you facing challenges transferring data between Excel workbooks? In this scenario, you have a source workbook on the left and a destination workbook on the right, where you aim to automatically transfer “Given IDs” based on their assigned codes. While you've successfully navigated one-to-many lookups, the appearance of #REF! errors when re-entering existing codes in the destination can be frustrating. Let's explore potential solutions, including the use of COUNTIF and FILTER functions, to maintain seamless data transfer while allowing for direct code entry.

Hey! I’m working on an Excel setup where the workbook on the left is my source and the one on the right is my destination. My goal is to automatically transfer the “Given IDs” from the source to the destination based on their assigned codes. I fixed the one‑to‑many lookup issue, but now I have another problem — when I type an existing code again in the destination (highlighted in green), it shows #REF! instead of its IDs. Is there any way to fix this without losing the automatic transfer I already have?

+ A user suggested to the COUNTIF into a MOD. I'm not sure how to operate this so I hope anyone could teach me.

+ "FILTER('[book 2.xlsx]Sheet2'!B:B,ISNUMBER(XMATCH('[book 2.xlsx]Sheet2'!A:A,B:B)))" = this also helps but I also encounter the aforementioned problem

(in my real workbooks, there will be times when I need to enter the same codes directly in the destination, and I don’t want to keep going back to the source workbook to re‑enter them all over again.)

Thank you so much in advance!

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