Formula checking if a combination of cells exists in the range

[chrismyers51]

Hello,

I am trying to write a formula that checks if the cells in column A, B, and C of a row appear in the same combination in my range table.

For example:


Sheet 1, Row 4 has the following values for the cells in each of the columns below:
Column A = First Floor
Column B = Area A
Clumn C = Activity 1

I am looking for a formula that looks in Sheet 2 to determine if the combination of these 3 values appear in columns A, B, and C in the same row of the table. If this combination does occur I want the formula to output YES if the combination does not exist in the table output should be NO.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[FDibbins]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Without seeing what you are working with, this is just a guess, but try something like...

=if(A1&B1&C1=sheet2!A1&sheet2!B1&sheet2!C1,"YES","NO")

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[chrismyers51]

Thank you for the help FDibbins,

This formula is not quite what I am looking for... Please see the attached example spreadsheet.

Thank you,

Chris

[FDibbins]

I tested my formula on your data and it works just fine. What were you expecting?

[chrismyers51]

The problem is that it needs to search a range for the combination not just one row... For example row 23 on 'sheet 1' may contain the combination and forumla... I want the formula to see that row 3 on 'sheet 2' contains the same combination and return the yes -----OR----- I want the formula to see that the combination does not exist in rows 3 through 200 and return a NO.

I tried to use ranges with your formula which gave me the formula below: (This formula is returning me NO on all rows even if they should be YES)

=IF(A1&B1&C1='Sheet 2'!$A$3:$A$200&'Sheet 2'!$B$3:$B$200&'Sheet 2'!!$C$3:$C$200,"YES","NO")