worked like a charm, thanks. I was overthinking it.

anand

"T. Valko" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(COUNTIF(B$1:B$100,A1),1,"")

Adjust the range to suit.

Copy down as needed.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"anand" wrote in message
...
I have 2 columns of data (A and B) both with unique alphanumeric codes in
each cell (unique to each column but not between columns; ie some values
are
found in both columns...these are what I need to find and mark).
I would like to know whenever a value in column B is also found in column
A.
If the value in a given row in column A is found anywhere in column B, I
would like to return a 1 in the same row of column C (as where the value
is
in column A). Otherwise, I want to return a blank.

Can anyone assist? I thought this might be doable with vlookup but I could
not figure out how to look for multiple #s in vlookup function...it seems
to
only look for one value.