I have 2 sheets. They both contain a list of Account Numbers. What I want to
do is to have a 3rd sheet created containing only those account numbers that
are found in both Sheet 1 and Sheet 2.

For example:

Sheet 1
Account Numbers
AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
DDDDD
EEEEE
FFFFFF
9999999
GGGGGG
HHHHHH
IIIIIII
JJJJJJ
KKKKKK
LLLLLLL
333333
444444


Sheet 2
Account Numbers
1111111
KKKKKKK
222222
EEEEEEE
999999
XXXXXXX
TTTTTTTT
AAAAAA
FFFFFFFF

Sheet 3
AAAAAAA
EEEEEEEE
FFFFFFF
9999999
KKKKKKKK

By the way, I am a REAL BIG beginner with excel, so please provide some
hand-holding in the instructions. 8-) thank you.

Or if it would be easier to have all the info on one sheet,
I could put info on Sheet 2 into some columns on Sheet 1. And I do not mind
having the Sheet3 data (the "pairs") onto some colum(s) on sheet 1, as well.

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"Roadtripper902902V3V"
wrote in message ...
Or if it would be easier to have all the info on one sheet,
I could put info on Sheet 2 into some columns on Sheet 1. And I do not
mind
having the Sheet3 data (the "pairs") onto some colum(s) on sheet 1, as
well.

Presuming that there's no duplicate account numbers in either Sheet1's data
or in Sheet2's data, you could try this easy formulas option to carve out the
expected results

In Sheet3,
In A2 down, do a copy n paste of the data from Sheet1/2, one below the other
(the pastes can be in any sequence). Done in 5 secs flat.

Put in B2:
=IF(AND(COUNTIF(A:A,A2)=2,COUNTIF(A$2:A2,A2)<2),R OW(),"")

Put in C2:
=IF(ROWS($1:1)COUNT(B:B),"",INDEX(A:A,SMALL(B:B,R OWS($1:1))))
Copy B2:C2 down to the last row of data in col A. Hide/minimize col B. Col A
will return the expected results all neatly packed at the top. Success? hit
the YES below
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xdemechanik
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"Roadtripper902902V3V" wrote:
Or if it would be easier to have all the info on one sheet,
I could put info on Sheet 2 into some columns on Sheet 1. And I do not mind
having the Sheet3 data (the "pairs") onto some colum(s) on sheet 1, as well.

oops, typo:
.. Col A will return the expected results all neatly packed at the top.
It should read Col C (not Col A). But of course
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xdemechanik
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13181543

Thanks, everyone.
I was able to find the solution by putting this in
C2: =VLOOKUP(A2,$B$2:$B$400,1,FALSE)
C3: =VLOOKUP(A3,$B$2:$B$400,1,FALSE)

Column 1 had all the account numbers from one source. (last row: 348)
Column 2 had all the acount numbers from a different source. (last row 311)