ok fine. And what is the result you expect and where. For instance, you
compare abc from col1 in col2 and find that abc exists, do you want to know
its position, or just some string saying it exists, or just print abc.

and in case of pqr, what result do you expect and in which cell.

Or do you want the count of the string in question.

Mangesh



"Tushar" wrote in message
...
but the coloums are not same they are something like below

abc abc
xyz tuv
lmn xyz
pqr
bcd
lmn

so each cell of coloum 1 shd look into the all second coloum cells
for eg coloum 1, cell 1( abc ) shd get compared with each cell of second
coloum then xyz shd get compared with all 2nd coloum cells so on

how can i do this ?

tushar


"Tushar" wrote:

hi,

i would like to know how can i compare coloums in excel. I have two
coloums
and i want to select common values from these two coloums by comparing
each
cell of 1st coloum with each cell of 2nd coloum. How can i do this?

Tushar