When you’re working with data in Excel, you may need to compare columns to find similarities and differences between data. Comparing columns is very useful for organizing and analyzing data. Manually comparing the data from two columns can be a time-consuming and exhausting task, so you can use various Excel formulas to match columns.
Excel has several methods and functions for comparing columns and finding matching and mismatching data. You can use logical operators – VLOOKUP, MATCH, AND, INDEX, IF, COUNTIF, ISERROR, IFERROR – or Conditional Formatting rules to compare and match data. In this article, we will discuss different methods