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In my profile [https://www.experts-exchange.com/M_258447.html] you'll find links to some articles I've written that may interest you
including these two new ones.
Creating your own Excel Formulas and doing the impossible [https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/20559/Creating-your-own-Excel-Formulas-and-doing-the-impossible.html]
A Guide to Writing Understandable and Maintainable VBA Code [https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/21759/A-Guide-to-Writing-Understandable-and-Maintainable-VBA-Code.html]
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Greetings,<br />
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I have 4 columns and am trying to compare each column to assure no names are repeated. The actual columns in question are about 30000 entries in-length. I shortened it here for ease of viewing. Could you suggest an approach to compare these four columns? I was having a challenge trying VLOOKUP.<br />
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Thank you!<br />
JohnD<br />
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pairwise-comparisons.xlsx

Greetings,

I have 4 columns and am trying to compare each column to assure no names are repeated. The actual columns in question are about 30000 entries in-length. I shortened it here for ease of viewing. Could you suggest an approach to compare these four columns? I was having a challenge trying VLOOKUP.

Thank you!
JohnD

4 columns compared for uniqueness

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