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Text comparison in adjacent cells
Can Excel show the differences in text strings which appear in different cells
eg changes of wording in similar phrases -- Thank you very much Andy |
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Text comparison in adjacent cells
It can show that there is a difference pretty easily:
=if(a1=b1,"no change","change") But it would pretty impressive to be able to parse those values and show the differences (whatever that means). Andy wrote: Can Excel show the differences in text strings which appear in different cells eg changes of wording in similar phrases -- Thank you very much Andy -- Dave Peterson |
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Thankyou Dave for the solution
Ideally a solution would be found which could highlight the differences between " the two cats" and "the three cats in the garden" - excel would highlight "three" and "in the garden" -- Thank you very much for your advice Best Wishes Andy "Andy" wrote: Can Excel show the differences in text strings which appear in different cells eg changes of wording in similar phrases -- Thank you very much Andy |
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Text comparison in adjacent cells
I'm not sure this helps, but MSWord has that kind of comparison. Maybe you
could copy the cells in each worksheet range to separate documents and use Tools|Compare and merge documents (In MSWord). Andy wrote: Thankyou Dave for the solution Ideally a solution would be found which could highlight the differences between " the two cats" and "the three cats in the garden" - excel would highlight "three" and "in the garden" -- Thank you very much for your advice Best Wishes Andy "Andy" wrote: Can Excel show the differences in text strings which appear in different cells eg changes of wording in similar phrases -- Thank you very much Andy -- Dave Peterson |
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