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Comparing values of two spreadsheets
Hello All, I'm trying to use excel to compare the contents of two seperate worksheets. My current method includes colouring the old data in one colour, importing the new data underneath and sorting by one column thus differences are highlighted next to each other - achieves the objective but it's 'very' messy! Does anyone know of any easy way or native function in excel to facilitate this? Thanks Frank -- fastfrank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fastfrank's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31365 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=510559 |
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Frank,
You could use a third sheet, and use a formula like this in cell A1: =IF(Sheet1!A1=Sheet2!A1,"","Changed!") and then copy that to a large enough block to compare all cells of interest. But, that will only work if the cells have jsut been over-written, not sorted, added to, etc... I've written a sheet comparison add-in that will compare two worksheets that have been sorted vertically, that I will send you if you contact me privately. There are still limitations (the columns need to be in the same order) but it is useful..... HTH, Bernie MS Excel MVP "fastfrank" wrote in message ... Hello All, I'm trying to use excel to compare the contents of two seperate worksheets. My current method includes colouring the old data in one colour, importing the new data underneath and sorting by one column thus differences are highlighted next to each other - achieves the objective but it's 'very' messy! Does anyone know of any easy way or native function in excel to facilitate this? Thanks Frank -- fastfrank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fastfrank's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31365 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=510559 |
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Hi Bernie, Thanks for your help, thats very useful. The add-in also sounds like it's worth a go but can't figure out how to private message you. My email is if you want to send it to me? Thanks Frank -- fastfrank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fastfrank's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31365 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=510559 |
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