The Scenario
Legal sent a note. The company's do-not-contact register has 30 domains in it — law firms, regulatory bodies, a few strategic partners. Nobody is supposed to receive outreach from the sales team. You have been asked to verify that none of these domains appear in the 'Top Accounts' Reply list before Q2 outreach begins.
The 'Top Accounts' list has 400 contacts. The DNC register is in a separate worksheet in the same Excel workbook.
The bad version:
- Export the 'Top Accounts' list from Reply as a CSV. Open it in Excel. It has 14 columns.
- Paste the emails into a new worksheet. Write a formula to extract domains from email addresses. Build a VLOOKUP to compare against the DNC worksheet.
- Something breaks in the VLOOKUP. The formula returns #N/A for half the rows. You spend 20 minutes debugging a formula that was supposed to save you time.
The legal team is waiting. The account executive is waiting. You are debugging a spreadsheet formula.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that can pull data from Reply and apply logic against what is already in your workbook — in one step.
Get all contacts from the Reply list ID in cell A1 of my Excel worksheet, paste them into the RawContacts worksheet, then in column E flag any whose email domain matches a domain in the DNCList worksheet
What You Get
- One row per contact in the RawContacts worksheet.
- Columns A through D populated with email, first name, last name, and company exactly as stored in Reply.
- Column E showing 'DNC match' for any contact whose email domain appears in the DNCList worksheet, or blank for those that are clear.
- No intermediate CSV, no manual VLOOKUP, no formula debugging.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want the DNC list name instead of an ID
Fetch all contacts from the Reply list named 'Top Accounts' and write their email, first name, last name, and company into columns A through D of the RawContacts worksheet. Extract the domain from each email, compare against column A of the DNCList worksheet, and write 'DNC match' in column E for any match
The DNC list is in a different format — full email addresses instead of domains
Fetch all contacts from the Reply list 'Top Accounts', write email, first name, last name, and company into columns A through D of the RawContacts worksheet, then compare each email directly against column A of the DNCList worksheet and write 'flagged' or 'clear' in column E
You want to remove matched contacts from the Reply list after flagging them
Fetch all contacts from the Reply list 'Top Accounts', write email and company into columns A and B of the RawContacts worksheet, cross-reference email domains against the DNCList worksheet, flag matches in column C, and for any flagged contact remove them from the 'Top Accounts' list in Reply and write 'removed' in column D
Full kill chain: pull contacts, cross-reference, remove matches, add domains to blacklist, write a summary
Fetch all contacts from the Reply list 'Top Accounts'. Write email, first name, last name, and company into columns A through D of the RawContacts worksheet. Cross-reference email domains against column A of the DNCList worksheet. For any match, remove that contact from the 'Top Accounts' list in Reply, add their domain to the Reply blacklist, write 'removed and blacklisted' in column E, and put the total count of removed contacts in cell F1
The cross-reference and the action belong in the same prompt. You should not be debugging VLOOKUP when the legal team is waiting.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook where you want your contact export and DNC cross-reference to live. Ask it to fetch the Reply list, write the contacts, and flag the DNC matches in the next column. See also bulk update the blacklist or the hub overview.