How to identify missing numbers sequence in Excel?
Let's say you have a long list of sequence numbers to mark items, such as check numbers in bank statements, normally we scrolling through and locate the missing sequence numbers manually. Sometimes this is quite arduous and time-consuming. You may think of tricky ways to deal with it. Yes, there are several easy ways to identify and locate missing numbers sequence in Excel 2007, Excel 2010, and Excel 2013 quickly and conveniently.
Identify missing numbers sequence with IF formula
Identify missing numbers sequence with an array formula
Identify missing numbers sequence with Kutools for Excel quickly
Kutools for Excel’s Find Missing Sequence Number feature can helper you quickly and easily find the missing sequence, and insert the missing numbers or blank rows into the existing data sequence, or fill background color when encountering the missing sequence.
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Identify missing numbers sequence with IF formula
As we all known, most of sequence numbers are with fixed increment of 1, such as 1, 2, 3, …, N. Therefore, if you can identify the number is not less 1 than its following number, there is a missing number.
We will show you the tutorials with an example as following screenshot shows:
1. In a blank cell, enter the formula of =IF(A3-A2=1,"","Missing"), and press the Enter key. In this case, we enter the formula in Cell B2.
If there is no missing numbers, this formula will return nothing; if missing numbers exist, it will return the text of "Missing" in active cell.
2. Select the cell B2 and drag the fill handle over the range of cells that you want to contain this formula. Now it identifies the missing numbers with the text of "Missing" in corresponding cells of Column B. See the following screenshot:
Identify missing numbers sequence with an array formula
Sometimes it requires not only identifying missing numbers sequence, but also listing missing numbers too. You can deal it with following steps:
1. in the adjacent cell, please enter the formula = SMALL(IF(ISNA(MATCH(ROW(A$1:A$30),A$1:A$30,0)),ROW(A$1:A$30)),ROW(A1))
A1:A30 = range of numbers, the sequence to check against is from 1 to 30
2. Press the Ctrl + Shift + Enter Keys together to finish the formula. Copy down the formula until you get #NUM! errors meaning all missing numbers have been listed. See screenshot:
Identify missing numbers sequence with Kutools for Excel quickly
The above methods only can identify the missing pure number sequence, if you have the sequence such as AA-1001-BB, AA-1002-BB, they may not work successfully. But, don't worry, Kutools for Excel’s powerful feature – Find Missing Sequence Number can help you quickly identify the missing sequence.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Select the data sequence that you want to find the missing sequence.
2. Click Kutools > Insert > Find Missing Sequence Number, see screenshot:
3. In the Find Missing Sequence Number dialog box:
(1.) If you choose Inserting new column with following missing marker option, all the missing sequence numbers have been marked with the text Missing in a new column next to your data. See screenshot:
(2.) If you choose Inserting missing sequence number option, all the missing numbers have been inserted into the sequence list. See screenshot:
(3.) If you choose Inserting blank rows when encounting missing sequence numbers option, all blank rows are inserted when there are missing numbers . See screenshot:
(4.) If you choose Fill background color option, the location of the missing numbers will be highlighted at once. See screenshot:
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Comments
Here you are finding missing numbers and pasting into other sheet...
But i need to findout missing rows insted of missing numbers...and i need it to paste that missing rows into a new sheet...
is there any solution for me.....
Thnaks
i need to find missimg number in total no of book.
i have 20000 book in my library . i have tally 18000 no of book .iam find the miss no's of books.
sir pleace help me.
iam uploading an excel file called abc into another excel called xyz....
That excel file abc rows directly writes into my Database...upto here i'm ok....
i need solution like this below....
no of rows read from abc excel while uploading into xyz excel...
no of rows inserted into database from abc excel...
if any rows while inserting into databse missing i need a message like "some rows were not inserted"
i need those missing rows into separate sheet
my code is in VBA,macros only...
2. The formula =SMALL is working for series starting from 1 and NOT for series starting from say 201 to 535. Then this formula is returning all missing nos. starting from 1 whereas ideally we want the missing nos. within the range from 201 to 535.
It is working fine sir,
I put this formula in excel VB module , later I saved as *.xla.
now pl help me, how to use it?
As I have no idea about how to create a VBA code, could you please let me know if there is any chance to adapt this code to my needs as follows:
1. the selected range to be by default (e.g. $C$2:$C$5000);
2. the new worksheet to have only the column with the missing numbers (and without "missing values" header);
3. to be able to add exceptions (e.g. numbers 4550432, 4552357, etc) that will not displayed in the new worksheet;
4. if some missing numbers are subsequently added in the original worksheet, these numbers to be automatically erased from the new worksheet, without running again the macro;
5. when I run again the macro, to create the same worksheet, with a particularly name.
Thank you so much in advance!
I used the =IF function and that works fine, but I'd be keen to get it working with the macros as well.
It is working and very useful this formula thank you
thanking you once again
I want to find out missing numbers starting from S-1 to S-30,000 and J-1 to J-7000, U-1 to U-26932 and C-1 to C-1836 please send code, Thanking You.
I want to find out missing numbers from S-1 to S-27000 and J-1 to J-7000 , U-1 to U-27000, C-1 to C-1848
I want to find out d missing numbers from S-1 to S-27000 and J-1 to J-6500. Please send me the vba code for d same
Thaniking you,
Jawale Jyo
I want to find out d missing numbers from S-1 to S-27000 and J-1 to J-6500. Please send me the vba code for d same.
The code available on net , when executed gives compilation error with WS.Sort
Thaniking you,
Jawale Jyo
/* getMissingNumbe r takes array and size of array as arguments*/
int getMissingNumbe r (int arr[], int num)
{
int i;
/* For xor of all the elemets in arary */
int x1 = a[0];
/* For xor of all the elemets from 1 to n+1 */
int x2 = 1;
for (i = 1; i< n; i++)
x1 = x1^a;
for ( i = 2; i
This example above is nothing short of a miracle similar to what a pace maker is to a heart patient. Cant express my thanks in words but you are a god saver
Any idea how to fix it ?
I wan to search missing numbers in a row of excel ,I tried to use the Kutool for excel ,After selecting the option to find missing numbers ,i am getting error the range can only contain number or text ?Though the range or row i had selected contains only number.
Any expert advice ?
Best,
Sanchit Bhrdwaj