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How sort and match multiple Excel rows to one row

Ok Excel Guru's
I have 4 columns of data. Each column is a list (audit) of the computer names on my network.
The rows are from AD, SAV, WSUS, and a Network Security Scan Tool.
Some computer names are on all the columns. Some are only in one or two of the columns. Each column of data has a different number of entires. Some over a hundred entires difference. So sorting is out of the question. Is there a way to sort all four rows to the first (largest) row. Have all matching entires in the columns sorted next to its match in the first column. Where there is no name match, the cell would be colored red to show where there is a mis-match.

Now,  if there is an entry in one of the other columns. Take for instance the Network scan picks up a Computer name but it isnt in AD. A row in the AD coloum would turn red. And visa vera. I walked into a bad situation and I need a way to organize this data.

If it can not be done in Excel. Can someone please let me know any other formats or programs that I can use to format this data this way.
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Hello cutzpr,

It would be useful to see some sample data.  Please upload
a sample file to an accessible web site, and come back
here to post a link to the file.

If you do not have your own web space, you can use
http://www.ee-stuff.com.  Please be advised that you
will have to zip your file(s) before uploading if you use that
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Patrick
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I have modified some data and posted it. Just copy and paste into a .txt, then rename it into a .csv and you should be able to open it in excel with no problem.
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Just wanted to say your solution is KICK A$$ - nice thinking!
I wonder how long that takes to do for EACH time an audit is run...
origfla...thanks!

imitchie...From the time I pasted the sample data in to a worksheet it took about 90 seconds to prepare the pivot table - everyone has their own ways of working so I can't guarantee that, but provided the data volumes are not huge it's a fairly minor task.

Regards
Mike
I'm just thinking practically, as an admin, I don't want to spend 3 minutes doing this every week. I would have used a macro that includes in the last step a filter for only the mismatches. But like you said, to each his own