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Comparing cells with text
i have the following case:
A B 1 EUR USD 2 EUR EUR 3 EUR CHF I'd like to compare the two colums and if the two cels in one row match, i would get a TRUE answer and if not it would be false - as the following example: A B C 1 EUR USD FALSE 2 EUR EUR TRUE 3 EUR CHF FALSE how do I do that? thanx for your help! |
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Comparing cells with text
Try this in C1, and copy down:
=EXACT(A1,B1) -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mortir" wrote in message ps.com... i have the following case: A B 1 EUR USD 2 EUR EUR 3 EUR CHF I'd like to compare the two colums and if the two cels in one row match, i would get a TRUE answer and if not it would be false - as the following example: A B C 1 EUR USD FALSE 2 EUR EUR TRUE 3 EUR CHF FALSE how do I do that? thanx for your help! |
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=IF(B1=A1,"TRUE","FALSE")
"Mortir" wrote in message ps.com... i have the following case: A B 1 EUR USD 2 EUR EUR 3 EUR CHF I'd like to compare the two colums and if the two cels in one row match, i would get a TRUE answer and if not it would be false - as the following example: A B C 1 EUR USD FALSE 2 EUR EUR TRUE 3 EUR CHF FALSE how do I do that? thanx for your help! |
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And that can be simplified to =(B1=A1)
Note, however, that Dave's formula is returning TRUE and FALSE as text strings. If you want logicals, remove the quote marks. My simplified version returns a logical result. -- David Biddulph "Dave T" wrote in message ... =IF(B1=A1,"TRUE","FALSE") |
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Comparing cells with text
=COUNTIF(A1:B1,A1)=2
"Mortir" wrote: i have the following case: A B 1 EUR USD 2 EUR EUR 3 EUR CHF I'd like to compare the two colums and if the two cels in one row match, i would get a TRUE answer and if not it would be false - as the following example: A B C 1 EUR USD FALSE 2 EUR EUR TRUE 3 EUR CHF FALSE how do I do that? thanx for your help! |
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