Excel – Comparing two columns in Microsoft Excel

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I'm attempting to compare two columns of data. One column (column G) is a "master" list with all account numbers in it and the other column (column A) only has a partial list of account numbers.

I'm looking for a formula that will compare the two columns and return a true if found in both columns or a false if only found in one.

Best Answer

You are probably going to want some variant of VLOOKUP to get this done. The trick is that you want your VLOOKUP to return a true or false. My method for getting a true/false from VLOOKUP is this:

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(lookup_value,lookup_range,index,FALSE)>0,FALSE)

this returns true if it finds a value, and false if it doesn't. (if someone knows a better way to do this, I'd love to know it!)

So now you put one of those statements for each of your columns inside an AND statement & you should have your test!

=AND(lookup test1,lookup_test2)

That was kinda long, but I hope it helps!

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