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    Simple data search

    I have two lists of names. List A (A large list of 5000 names) and List B (a small list of only 20 names).

    I would like to find the very first occurence of any name from List B in list A.

    It sounds quite simple, but I can't think of a formula to do this.

    Is there an easy one?

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    =Match(B1,A:A,0) will tell you in what row within column A that the name in B1 is first matched to.


    You can copy that down column B
    Where there is a will there are many ways.

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