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Peo Sjoblom
 
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Default Conditional Format - 2 lists of names to find matching cells.

Use conditional formatting formula is and countif

For column A

=COUNTIF($B$1:$B$50,A1)0

for B

=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$50,B1)0


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom
"Robin" wrote in message
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I have a sheet with two seperate columns of names and would like any name
in
list 1 that also appears in list 2 to be highlighted in both lists.

Exapmple...

A B
1 Dan Bill
2 Dave Andy
3 Pete Dave
4 Chris Darren

Result - Cells A2 and B3 would appear with red text.

Thanks in advance!

Robin



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