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How to find intersection of two column lists in Excel?

Author Siluvia Last modified

As below screenshot, how do you find the intersection of two lists in Excel? In other words, how to find duplicate values in two columns? This article provides two methods to help you achieving it.

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Find intersection of two lists with formula
Find intersection of two lists with Kutools for Excel

Find intersection of two lists with formula

The below formula can help you find intersection of two lists in Excel. Please do as follows.

1. Select a blank column, copy formula =IF(ISERROR(MATCH(B2,$C$2:$C$9,0)),"",B2) into the Formula Bar and then press the Enter key. See screenshot:

apply a formula to get intersection of two lists

Note: In the formula, B2 is the first cell of the first list, $C$2:$C$9 is the range of the second list. Please change them based on your need.

2. Now the first intersection is finding out, please select it and then drag the Fill Handle down to get all. See screenshot:

drag and fill the formula to other cells

Find intersection of two lists with Kutools for Excel

If you don’t want to apply formula, here we recommend you the Select Same & Different Cells utility of Kutools for Excel to easily find all intersections of two lists in Excel.

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1. Click Kutools > Select > Select Same & Different Cells. 

click Select Same & Different Cells feature of kutools

2. In the Select Same & Different Cells dialog box, you need to:

2.1 Select the first list and the second list without headers separately in the Find values in and the According to boxes;
2.2 Select the Each row option in the Based on section;
2.3 Choose Same values in the Find section;
2.4 Specify a background color or font color in the Processing of results section to highlight the intersections as you need;
2.5 Click the OK button. See screenshot:

specify options it the dialog box

3. Then a dialog box pops up to tell you how many cells have been selected, please click the OK button. And you can see all intersections are selected and highlight in the first list as below screenshot:

a dialog box pops up to tell you how many cells have been selected

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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