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I have multiple columns of names (stocks from googlefinance) and if there is a match across the columns I need to return only the matches into a new column. I need to be able to do this for both two matches and three matches across the columns.
I have a sample google sheet above with sample columns and desired returns for illustration.
I have tried the following functions COUNTIF VLOOKUP QUERY, I cannot figure out how to search across all possibilities.
=IF(COUNTIF($B:$E, $A2:$A20)>0, $A2:$A20,""), returns only one match from the first column
=VLOOKUP($A2:$A20,$B2:$E50,1,true) only returns one match as well, the data isn't sorted and if I use false I get no results.
=QUERY($A2:$E50, "select A where A matches B:E label A 'Multis'" ) only returns results if they are in the corresponding cells i.e., A3=C3, not A3=C4
none of these can look to see if column B matches column C. If I could get any of these to work I could nest searches A, B:E; B, C:E; C, D:E; D, E; then concatenate the results and delete repeats. I have not been able to get the A, B:E to work correctly.