How can I compare two sets of data having two columns in excel? Picture below will elaborate

Question

Below are two sets of data. Each has two columns. I want that that the similar data comes in front of each other.

Answer 1

This is a manual solution with formulas and sorting.

Imagine the following data in columns A to E:

Enter the following formulas into columns G to K

• Column G: =IFERROR(IF(VLOOKUP(D:D,A:B,2,FALSE)=E:E,1,2),3)
• Column H: =IF(G:G<3,D:D,"")
• Column I: =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(H:H,A:B,2,FALSE),"")
• Column J: =D:D
• Column K: =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J:J,D:E,2,FALSE),"")

The column G sort by now shows:

• 1 if part and quantity matched
• 2 if only part matched
• 3 if nothing matched

So if you now select data from A3:K10 and sort by column G (sort by) then it will result in this: