CHOOSECOLS and VSTACK
Stack lists from two sheets into one with VSTACK, keep only the columns you need with CHOOSECOLS, and combine both in one live formula.
In this lesson
=VSTACK(range1, range2, …)stacks ranges one under the other, the first on top.=CHOOSECOLS(range, 3, 6)keeps columns 3 and 6 of the range, counted from its left edge, in the order you list them.- Related functions: HSTACK puts ranges side by side, and CHOOSEROWS picks rows by number.
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