ok let me explain. my company has an excel spreadsheet that is essentially a price list. For industrial construction parts. Once a week we get a price sheet from our distributor of price changes and new items. The spreadsheet that we keep has a column (Column A) of Product IDs. The IDs range from 7-10 numbers or letters and dont follow a particular pattern. The girl at the office copies and pastes the list from the distributor to Column D of the Spreadsheet. She then manually scrolls through all the stuff in Column D (which is in a random order) and finds matches with the product ids in Col A. A match means a price change. Then the girl copies the new price into our price sheet.

I am trying to automate this a little. There are 3700 lines this person has to go through once a week. Where my problem lies is that once the new product Ids are copied into column D they are in any order. So the ID in A17 may match an ID in D347 and if so I need to know about it. The reverse doesnt need to work. I just need to know if the product id in A exists anywhere in D and then use a conditional to copy the corresponding new price to another column (easy part)

so if ($stufffromA eq $stufffromanywhereinD) { copy new price to column R }

hope that clears it up and doesnt make it muddier