Chip Pearson has lots of techniques to work with duplicates:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/Duplicates.aspx
gh wrote:
>
> I have 2 spreadsheets, with an id column that is assigned to a person,
> in each one. One spreadsheet shows the people who pre-registered for an
> event and the other spreadsheet shows the id of the people who attended.
> I need to compare those who were registered against those who
> attended, to show who was registered that did not show and those who
> showed up without pre-registering. Can this be done in Excel?
>
> TIA
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Dave Peterson