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I have a list of employees who submitted their daily reports. I need to compare this list with the complete employee roster to determine which employees did not submit their daily report. How can I...
pbexpresss Hi. Assuming Excel 365, this is a way
XMATCH looks for all names among those reported.
ISERROR becomes true if they are not in the list of reported hours
FILTER shows all names that have not reported
=FILTER(G2:G6;ISERROR(XMATCH(G2:G6;A2:A4)))
Change G2:G6 to range in your workbook with all names.
Using the function LET makes it easier to read and test the different parts.
Last line is what the cell outputs and changing "output" to eg haveReport shows that part of the calculation.
I prefer to have the definitions indented.
=LET(allNames;G2:G6;
reportedNames;A2:A4;
haveReported;XMATCH(allNames;reportedNames);
haveNotReported;ISERROR(haveReported);
output;FILTER(allNames;haveNotReported);
output
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