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All the formulas I can find pertain to only checking one cell agains
another: EXACT() - "Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same..." Is there no formula to compare several strings? Seems silly. 2007 only has 5 new formulas? yikes. |
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Finny,
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)=COUNTA(A:A),"ALL are the same","NOT all are the same") can be used to tell if all the entries in column A are all the same. HTH, Bernie MS Excel MVP "Finny388" wrote in message ups.com... All the formulas I can find pertain to only checking one cell agains another: EXACT() - "Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same..." Is there no formula to compare several strings? Seems silly. 2007 only has 5 new formulas? yikes. |
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On Jul 11, 9:32 am, "Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org
wrote: Finny, =IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)=COUNTA(A:A),"ALL are the same","NOT all are the same") can be used to tell if all the entries in column A are all the same. HTH, Bernie MS Excel MVP "Finny388" wrote in message ups.com... All the formulas I can find pertain to only checking one cell agains another: EXACT() - "Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same..." Is there no formula to compare several strings? Seems silly. 2007 only has 5 new formulas? yikes. thanks! nice work! |
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