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Comparing two columns and finding matching names
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I need to check one list of names against another list of names and to determine if any of the names appear in both lists. I.e. Column A has 300 records Column B has 100 records, I need to indicate if any record in Column B matches any record in column A. |
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Comparing two columns and finding matching names
On Oct 11, 7:28 pm, excelissue
wrote: Please help... I need to check one list of names against another list of names and to determine if any of the names appear in both lists. I.e. Column A has 300 records Column B has 100 records, I need to indicate if any record in Column B matches any record in column A. You can use VLOOKUP, MATCH, COUNTIF etc to do this. This will return the value is it is found: =VLOOKUP(B1,A:A,1,FALSE) This will return the position in the lookup_array (A:A in this example) if the value was found: =MATCH(B1,A1:A,0) This will count how many times the value in B1 occurs in column A: =COUNTIF(A:A,B1) |
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