I have a file in an excel sheet that has two columns. I want to compare line by line of both columns and highlight if any rows aree different.
In the picture below, row 12,14,15 should be highlighted (both cells in column A and column B).
Is there a way to do this in excel?
Use below conditional formatting rule-
=$A2<>$B2
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I am trying to highlight cells that contain values over 500, but ONLY in columns that have "Variance" in the column header. Is there a way to do this? I know you can highlight specific columns using something like =$A1="Variance" but not sure how to write the formula to include only highlight the cells in those specific columns with values over 500.
I have large number of cells with multiples rows in each cells. Is there any command or regex or formula to copy only 1st or 2nd rows within cells from a large no of cells?
Use Conditional Formatting, C2: L2 Duplicate, then copy this area to the other C3:Cn line, and paste format only.
Duplicates per line will be identified, by the chosen color, delete the discarded one.
Note: Identifies only identical values, if not spelled differently.
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Or, if easier, highlight the row if all cell values are not the same.
I'll have four (or six) columns of data and need to see where any differences occur across each row occur. I tried to follow a youtube vid on conditional formatting but couldn't alter it to work. I'm on excel for mac v16.
To format all cells in a row if they have the same value, you can use the following formula as your condition:
=COUNTIF($A1:$F1,$A1)=6
(Assuming data is in columns A to F)
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to use a formula with conditional formatting or a VBA macro to highlight a cell based on a cell with identical contents in another column, with varying data.
To explain more thoroughly, let's say I have column A, with unique content in each row, rows 1-280. Each row is formatted to be a string of text, such as "12E00" or "97EBC." I also have column T, which is based on imported data, and may contain some of, but not all of, nor in the same row, the data from column A. It also starts at row 9, not row 1. This is repeated on 47 different tabs, with differing row contents on different tabs (some may have 1-280, others may have 1-160).
Is there some conditional formatting formula/macro (with an explanation of the working components of possible, so that I can learn myself and educate my supervision on the inner workings) that would allow me to highlight any of the cells in column A that have the same text string shown somewhere in column T? Additionally, keeping in mind that I'm checking every row in column A against column T and that column T will only contain some of the text strings in column A.
I assume there is a better way to accomplish this.
But if I understood the question correctly, then try using: =ISNUMBER(MATCH(cell,column,0))
I would then make a column next to Column A for each sheet you want to check.
Example table, with a column for each sheet checked, and a column for checking if any sheets matched. Matched cells are highlighted.
47 columns might be too much to, therefore I used Column B to do:
=OR(Table1[#[sheetName]:[otherSheetName]])
Each column have the formula: =ISNUMBER(MATCH([#[Column A]],INDIRECT(C$1&"!T:T"),0)) (C$1 is pointing to the column's header row)
Utilizing INDIRECT() the column will always look in column T in the sheet with the same name as the column header.
The highlighting is done with these conditional formatting rules
I am using conditional formatting in Excel 2007 to compare values row by row in cells H, K and U.
Since I am trying to use the conditional fomartting row by row instead of a range of cells.
My hand cramped up by row 50, and I have another few hundreds to go.
Is there a macro that would check the rows and paste the format without having to do one at a time?
A million thanks.
You don't need to apply the conditional formatting row-by-row. If you use the proper combination of relative and absolute references in your conditional formatting formula, you can do it all in one shot. For example, select A1:C10 and enter this formula for conditional formatting
=$A1=1
Because I made the column absolute with the dollar sign, every cell in A1:C10 will refer to column A. But since the row is relative, every cell will refer to column A on its same row. So B8's conditional format formula will be =$A8=1