I know Access has solutions, but it would help my cause if I could
compare 2 lists of text and show the mismatches in XL.
Any help would be great...
Phillycheese5


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Hi,
assuming your first list is in A1:A100
and your second list is in B1:B100

in C1 put this formula

=IF(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$100,B1)0,"match","")

drag this down column C

HTH


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Greg, thanks for the help...I'll give it a try


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HEre's how I might do it. Details depend on what you want to do with
matches/mismatches:

Assuming your lists are in columns A and B, in C1 place formula =A1=B1.
Returns TRUE if A and B match, returns FALSE if they don't. Copy
formula down column C.
To show if the lists match exactly D1=AND(C1:C10000)
To count the number of mismatches D2=COUNTIF(C1:C10000, FALSE)
You could also use Autofilter/conditional formatting to highlight
and/or display the mismatches.


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