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Let the list be in A1:A1000 and B1:B200
In D1 enter =IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A1,$B$1:$B$200,0)),"",A1)
Copy this down to row 200
Column D now has the missing names
Select and Copy D1:D200; with it still selected use Edit | Paste Special
with Values specified
Now you have text, not formulas and you can sort D1:D200 to remove the
spaces
Maybe =IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A1,$B$1:$B$200,0)),"zzzzzzzz",A 1) would be better.
Then you can sort the missing names alphabetically and delete all the
zzzzzzzz entries.
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"Gene Straub" <Gene wrote in message
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I have 2 lists of names, List A and B. I want to create a list of the
names
in list A that do not appear in List B. How can this be done?

Gene