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I am looking for a way to get a function in excel to retrieve the distance form one zip to another. Lets say i have a list of 100,000 possible recruits and I want to sort by nearest. Id have the conference zip code and then 100,000 recruit zip codes. I’m looking to be able to just write a function =ZipCodeDistance(a2,d1) and then sort by that column. I have found a program for $65 that claims to do this, but I was wondering if there was a free way.
If you have the latitude and longitude for each zip code, you can use trigonometry to calculate the distance as the crow flies.
There is a free database here that you can download.
To do the calculation, see the info here. And some actual Excel-specific calc examples are here.