Question

I have 2 columns in a spreadsheet. One column has around 26 extra rows than the other. I’ve been trying various formulas to highlight or somehow indicate which columns are missing from the smaller of the lists…

I tried filling a 3rd colum with this :

=FIND(B1,A1:A1102)

which I though returned 1 if b1 was in the list a1:a1102 alas it doesn’t seem to be true.

Anybody got any solutions for comparing 2 lists and isolating differences?

Thanks

Answer 1

To use MATCH, go with something like the following:

 =IFERROR(MATCH(B1,$A$1:$A$1102,0),0)

entered into cell C1 and copied down to the end of the data in column B

This assumes that column B contains the longer list and A the shorter, of course.

The MATCH formula will return the row in which B1 is matched in A.