Andreas,

In cell C1, use the formula

=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(B1,A:A,FALSE)),"","Also in column A")

And copy down to match your list in column B.

You can write a similar formula to highlight the values in column A.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Andreas" wrote in message
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I have two lists of numbers or names and I want to find the ones that are
common between the 2. The lists are say column A and column B in excel.