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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:27:35+00:00

I have two lists of names in Excel ’07. Two columns in each file:

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I have two lists of names in Excel ’07. Two columns in each file: first name and last name. I’d like to be able to tell which names in each list (name = first, last) appear in the other list. None of the methods I can think of account for more than one column at a time — e.g., I can see how many “Smith”s there are, or how many “Albert”s, but I can’t tell how many “Albert Smith”s there are.

Thoughts?

Edit: Obviously I can concatenate, but I’d like this approach to be generalizable to more than two columns of data.

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    Update: Figured it out! Sumproduct does all that work for me. Here’s a formula:

    =SUMPRODUCT(($G$8:$G$110=C28)*($F$8:$F$110=D28))

    This assumes that the reference first names are stored in G, last names in F, and that the names I’m looking for are in C (First) and D (Last) respectively. Output is 1 for a match, 0 for no match. Only produces a match when adjacent cells match.

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