"David McRitchie" wrote in message ...
Hi Sandip,
When you indicate highlight do you really need the background
to be highlighted, if so then the Conditional Formatting solutions
already provided simplify this.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm

But if you just want to more conventionally change the FONT color then
you can use normal cell formatting. #,##0.00_);[Red](#,##0.00)
Since you have numbers and not converting between text and numbers
the change of format is immediate.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...tFormatExample

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the old one hangs around in UseNet. Those of us that attach directly
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"Sandip Shah" wrote...
I have dowloaded an account details from my accounting package into
excel. The number of transactions runs into over 10000 lines. All the
debits and credits ( positive and negative ) numbers are in the same
column.

David,

I have gone through the website on conditional formatting. I had also
gone through CPearsons website prior to posting this message. The
problem I see in conditional formatting is that it highlights the
duplicate entry but not the orginal entry.

For eg. If I have 4500 on row 1 and -4500 on row 12, I would want both
these numbers to be highlighted so that I can verify it and remove it
from the list. Hence in a column which has hundreds of positive and
negative numbers, the end result of all the highlighted numbers would
be zero since the positive is matched with a negative number.

Let me know if I am wrong in my understanding about conditional
formatting.

Regards
Sandip