Thread: Match formula...

Hi, I'm struggling with matching one set of email addresses to another.

So I have a list and a masterlist, I want to know if an email address appears in the master list, Yes or No, then count the yes and nos.

However the 3 formulas i've used are not consistant when I thought they would be!

Any ideas?

=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(B2,A:A,0)),"YES","NO")

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B2,A:A,1,FALSE)),"NO","YES")

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(B2,A:A,0)),"NO","YES")

Thanks,

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Can you post a sample showing the inconsistency?

Your MATCH formulae should work ok - if they're failing to pick up what you believe to be matches then that would imply you perhaps have formatting issues (ie trailing spaces in one set and not the other) ...

If that's the case find values you "think" are a match in both columns and conduct an EXACT test... ie if you think A10 should match B1 then try:

=A10=B1

if the result is FALSE further investigation is required as to why... eg

=LEN(A10)

=LEN(B1)

are they the same, if not looking for leading/trailing spaces in either string etc...

Posting a sample may be difficult given confidentiality so try the above first and post back.