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filtering unmatching data

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    filtering unmatching data

    I know how to filter for matching data but I can't find how to filter the data that doesn't match.
    Any ideas please?
    Thanks,
    B.

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    Anyone?

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    Let me clarify the question: how do I filter two colums of data to return the values that don not match?
    Thanks,
    B.

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    Getting a clarification; so if your data is in columns A and B, you want to filter so that A1 <> B1 it shows, if A1 = B1, it's filtered out. Yes?

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    Hi Chemist,
    Yes. Normally, advanced filtering allows me to match a set of values with any matching values in a target array. What I want to see if the ones that don't match.
    As an example, I'm attaching a simple spreadsheet with my expected results included.
    Thanks for your time on this.
    B.
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    I could not come up with a way to do it automatically with filtering.

    I needed a dummy column to get your list. Here's what I did
    Data in A and B with complete list in A, starting in row 3
    In C3 (and dragging down)
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    What this does is if there is a match between what is in cell A3 with anything in Col B, then it assigns a row number to it (where the first row of data is 1). This eventually gives you a number in column C in every row that does not have a match in B.

    Next in D (to get your new list) I put this formula in Cell D3 (dragged down)
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    The first part catches error messages, after that it Indexes the rows in column D with the value in column A.

    Does this work for you? I didn't know if you will have teams in B that aren't in A. That will complicate things.

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