All my searches have lead me to ways to eliminate duplicates in a
column- not what I'm trying to do... If the value in column C is the
same as the value in column D for the same row, I want to erase it. Is
there an easy way to do this? (I think I remember reading about a way
with conditional formatting once.)

If you just want to hide duplicate values you can use conditional formatting
on values in column C and make the font color white if the value in C matches
the value in D (in conditional format box use "Cell Value is", "equal to",
"=D1" for cell C1 and use the format paintbrush to do the rest of column C).

If you want to actually remove the value from column C you could create a
3rd column (say E), use an "If" statement to compare C and D and then
copy/paste special/value column E back on to column C. The "If" statement in
C1 would look something like "=if(c1=d1,"",c1)"
Will

"calibansfolly" wrote:

All my searches have lead me to ways to eliminate duplicates in a
column- not what I'm trying to do... If the value in column C is the
same as the value in column D for the same row, I want to erase it. Is
there an easy way to do this? (I think I remember reading about a way
with conditional formatting once.)

There is no possibility to erase the content of a cell with a formula or a
conditional formatting, only a macro can do it. However, you can hide the
content of a cell with conditional formatting, by using white font on white
background.

Select column C, then click on the menu Format Conditional Formatting, then
make sure you have
"Cell Value Is", "Equal To", "=$D1" (without quotes), then click on the
button Format and select white color font.

If you want to erase the content of the cells, then this macro should do it:

Sub DeleteSameValue()

Dim i As Long

For i = 1 To 65536
If Cells(i, "C") = Cells(i, "D") And Cells(i, "C") < "" Then
Cells(i, "C") = ""
End If
Next i

End Sub



calibansfolly wrote:
All my searches have lead me to ways to eliminate duplicates in a
column- not what I'm trying to do... If the value in column C is the
same as the value in column D for the same row, I want to erase it. Is
there an easy way to do this? (I think I remember reading about a way
with conditional formatting once.)

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Will- this is perfrect. Thanks!