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excel exact command should not be case sensitive
The exact command in Excel is case sensitive when comparing text. It doesn't
have to be. I can understand when comparing numbers or calculations. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...et.f unctions |
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excel exact command should not be case sensitive
If you just want to compare something without regard to case, you can just use
the = comparison: =if(a1=b1,"same","different") keabu wrote: The exact command in Excel is case sensitive when comparing text. It doesn't have to be. I can understand when comparing numbers or calculations. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...et.f unctions -- Dave Peterson |
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excel exact command should not be case sensitive
Dave Peterson wrote...
If you just want to compare something without regard to case, you can just use the = comparison: =if(a1=b1,"same","different") .... And even if = didn't work for text, it'd still be possible to use EXACT(UPPER(a),UPPER(b)) to compare a and b case insensitively. If EXACT were case insensitive and = didn't work for text, there'd be no way to construct a case SENSITIVE comparison. Thus, it's better for EXACT to be case sensitive than not. The deeper problem is that the OP doesn't understand there are times some Excel users *DO* want case sensitive comparisons. |
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