Question

I have two lists, one from 1 to 10 the other from 1 to 5. I use the VLOOKUP to search in the large list the small list and it returns the values from 1 to 5 and from 6 to 10 it returns N/A.
The expession is like this : =VLOOKUP(A:A;B:B;1;FALSE)

I would really need it to return the values from 6 to 10 (the values that are not in the second list, but are in the first one). How can i do this? Doesn;t have to be on the same column or to use VLOOKUP. I would like a solution to return the values that are NOT the the small list.

Thank you!

Answer 1

First I’ll describe my test data:

Column A contains 1,10 in A1 – A10
Column B conatins 1,5 in B1 – B5
Column C contains the formula VLOOKUP(A1,B1:B10,1,FALSE) with the first argumnent updated as appropriately.

Using that formula I get 1,5 in C1 – C5 and N/A in C6-C10

If I change the formula to =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A1,B1:B10,1,FALSE)),A1,"") (again with the A1s updated appropiately), I get “” in C1-C5 and 6-10 in C6 – C10.

Is this what you were looking for?