Finding items in one list that appear in another

egoodman

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My problem: I have a very large list of items that I had to break into two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet (spreadsheet #1) has 55,931 lines and three columns the second one (spreadsheet #2) has 64,837 lines and three columns. I have a third sheet (spreadsheet #3) that consists of 1160 lines and one column. I would like to identify everytime an item in sheet #3 appears in Column B of spreadsheets 1 and 2 by having them turn the background yellow. For instance if spreadsheet 3 was a list of automobiles and spreadsheets 1 and 2 was a list of all vehicles I would like to identify everytime an automobile is located in spreadsheets 1 and 2 that appears on sheet 3 by turning the background yellow.
 

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On 2002-10-08 12:00, egoodman wrote:
My problem: I have a very large list of items that I had to break into two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet (spreadsheet #1) has 55,931 lines and three columns the second one (spreadsheet #2) has 64,837 lines and three columns. I have a third sheet (spreadsheet #3) that consists of 1160 lines and one column. I would like to identify everytime an item in sheet #3 appears in Column B of spreadsheets 1 and 2 by having them turn the background yellow. For instance if spreadsheet 3 was a list of automobiles and spreadsheets 1 and 2 was a list of all vehicles I would like to identify everytime an automobile is located in spreadsheets 1 and 2 that appears on sheet 3 by turning the background yellow.

Sheet1: Let column B from B2 on house vehicles.

Sheet2: Let column B from B2 on house vehicles.

( 1.) Select all the automobile cells in Sheet3.
( 2.) Go to the Name Box on the Formula Bar.
( 3.) Type List and hit enter.
( 4.) Select all the vehicle cells in column B in Sheet1.
( 5.) Activate Format|Conditional Formatting.
( 6.) Choose Formula Is for Condition 1.
( 7.) Enter the following in the white box:

=MATCH(B2,List,0)

( 8.) Activate the Format button.
( 9.) Choose yellow on the Patterns tab.
(10.) Click OK, OK.
(11.) Repeat the steps 4 to 10 for Sheet2.
 
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