Since you're asking in an Excel group I guess you're thinking of using Excel
for this. But this is no specific tool in Excel that does this although you
could write a macro for it. I'd so an internet search on "compare text
files" and I imagine you'd get a lot of hits.

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Jim
"Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK"
soft.com wrote in message
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| We generate a csv file each night with over 10,000 records,
| it's a list of classes, teachers and students.
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| Could anyone give me some advise on a easy way of automaticaly comparing
the
| one csv to another, and then creating a 3rd csv with just the differences?
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| Thank you for any help or advise.
|
| Steve
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