finding common values across multiple columns

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captainentropy

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Hi,

I can’t find the answer to this anywhere. I’ve read a few potential answers involving VBA scripts, but none of them worked and frankly, right now, VBA is over my head.

This website had what I thought would work, but it doesn’t. I have six columns with hundreds of values in each one. I know of one that IS common between them all, so I have a positive control. http://www.get-digital-help.com/2009/08/10/filter-common-values-from-three-columns-in-excel/
Expanding the example at the linked site I generated this relevant table. There is one common value, CC.

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I can’t come up with any permutation of the formula suggested that works. Here’s the formula
=INDEX(List1, MATCH(0, COUNTIF($A$13:A13, List1)+IF(IF(COUNTIF(List2, List1)>0, 1, 0)+IF(COUNTIF(List3, List1)>0, 1, 0)=2, 0, 1), 0))

Any suggestions?
 

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Must be array confirmed with shift ctrl enter.

=INDEX(List1,MATCH(2,1/(COUNTIF(List2,List1)*COUNTIF(List3,List1)*COUNTIF(List4,List1)*COUNTIF(List5,List1)*COUNTIF(List6,List1))))
 
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What result did you get from that formula, and what was expected?

It works for me with your data sample in post 1.

Excel Workbook
ABCDEF
1List1List2List3List4List5List6
2AAAAPPXXAAPP
3BBKKBBABQQJH
4CCCCCCCCMMCC
5DDLLBBDEYYKS
6EEEEQQERJHWB
7FFMMFFGFMMOH
8GGGGGGJFSHDE
9HHNNHHHHGRND
10GGAASSTTUNYM
11JJBBAAOICCAI
12
13CC
Sheet1
#VALUE!
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
 
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oh wait, sorry, I didn't see that you changed the formula. I thought you were just saying I had to CTRL+Shift+Enter.

Now it works! All that work now to find out that the one value I knew to be in common is the only one in common. :mad: hahahaha

So, what is happening when you changed "...MATCH(0,..." to "...MATCH(2,1/..." and the "+COUNTIF" to "*COUNTIF"?

It turned out the formula I had used DID work. It only returned one value in my real dataset, which I didn't expect to be true. Grrrr.

Thanks though, I appreciate it :)
 
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One main difference between the 2, yours will return a list of all common values as you fill down, mine will only return the first one.

Your version is reversing locic, counting each entry in list1 compared to the other lists, adding together the number of columns where the entry is found, then checking the count of columns where it is found, it hten returns the first item in the list that hasn't been previously counted.

Mine works on the basis of multiplying the counts in each list, in simple terms {1*1*1*1*1*1} = 1 if the item is found in all lists, {1*0*1*1*1*1} = 0, the item was missing from the second list, so multiplying by 0 returns a result of 0 regardless of the other values.

1/0 returns a #DIV/0 error to the formula, 1/1 (or 1/ any non 0 value) will return a number, MATCH(2 ignores the errors and finds the first number which signifies the position of the common value.
 
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Thanks jasonb75! That's the type of explanation that I find very helpful and will help me figure things out because I will invariably try to come up with another formula to analyze my data.

The contributors on mrexcel are the best!
 
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