I am currently attempting to cross-compare two different columns in Excel, where I only want a flag to occur when duplicates are found in both column A and Column B.
Summary: Column A contains ID numbers. Column B contains birthdays. I want to make sure that if there are multiple rows containing the ID number, that the birthday column also matches. If only 1 of the conditions match, it is ignored.
Example:
ID number | Date of Birth | Duplicate? |
---|---|---|
ABC123 | 01/01/2000 | No |
DEF987 | 01/01/2000 | No |
DEF987 | 04/06/1966 | No |
GHI456 | 03/03/2001 | Yes |
GHI456 | 03/03/2001 | Yes |
JLK654 | 08/07/1996 | No |
I've tried the following example formula: =SUMPRODUCT(ISNUMBER(FIND(A3,A:A))*ISNUMBER(FIND(B3,B:B)))
, where it will count 1 for no match, and 2 for a match, although it still returns a match if only the birthday is duplicated, not both.
Is there any alternative way to facilitate such a functionality, please? Thanks!
You need to use this formula for the column header named Duplicate?
This gives you the count where it is more than once, and wrapping it up within an IF Logic to check if its TRUE to return Yes otherwise No
Formula used in cell C2 & Fill Down
=IF(COUNTIFS($A:$A,$A:$A,$B:$B,$B:$B)>1,"Yes","No")