I have two excel sheets with the similar header columns and dataset is similar however some times there are some miss-match with their values which I would like to compare with excel formulas or lookup or built in tool. Please advise
On Sheet1 you can place in column D (example is for row 2 to highlight the row with a mismatch) the following formula:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(Sheet1!A2,Sheet2!A:C,3,FALSE)=Sheet1!C2,FALSE)
This will output TRUE or FALSE depending if the email matches for the unique id. You can adapt using this either for a more complex formula or for conditional formatting.
If you are just looking to compare two spreadsheets, Windows comes with a function called Spreadsheet Compare. Just do a search in the task bar and it should come up. It is great if you are looking to compare two separate workbooks. If they are in the same workbook you can copy one into a new workbook then compare them. It will show every discrepancy.
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I've two excel files having data and each having four columns. I need to compare the two excels and it should show me the difference for each row.
To achieve this, I'm thinking of:
Using a VLookup feature
or
Writing Python code to achieve this.
Was wondering if there is any other better approach for this please?
Thank you.
Just an idea.
Here is an example of how you could use the =IF function to compare two Excel files:
1. Open both Excel files in separate tabs in Excel.
2. In the first Excel file, select the cell where you want to display the result of the comparison.
3. Type the =IF function in the selected cell, followed by the cell reference for the corresponding cell in the second Excel file. For example, if you want to compare the values in cell A1 of the first Excel file with cell A1 of the second Excel file, you would type =IF(A1=Sheet2!A1, "Match", "Difference") in the selected cell.
4. Press Enter to execute the =IF function and display the result of the comparison. If the values in the two cells are the same, the =IF function will display "Match". If the values are different, the =IF function will display "Difference".
5. Repeat the above steps for each cell that you want to compare in the two Excel files. And when you've done it to two you mgiht be able to select the two created IF's and drag it down so it will fill out the rest (if you someday have more than 4 columns).
I work in office Excel online at it seems it is different than "regular" office. I have a standard case of two excel sheets that contain two matching columns both A columns (starting with 2 row, first is title of row). In first sheet I need to add second column value from second sheet where values from A match. This seems easy but, for some reason in online office this simple formula does not work:
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!$A$2:$B$4170,2,0)
this gives just N/A result although matching value in Sheet2 exists.
Column is in both sheets A, with title sku in row 1. Second sheet contains additional data in column 2 (B) which I want to put in F column of Sheet1 using this formula.
Can you tell me why this doesn't work? IS office.com different in term of formulas?
Also, when I pull down this formula this A starting number in "Sheet2!$A$THISNUMBER" gets bigger, like
=VLOOKUP(A3,Sheet2!$A$3:$B$4170,2,0)
I have a problem. I have multiple excel files all with a few numbers in a list. I need to take those numbers in those lists and see if those values are in another excel sheet with over 570000 values. Then mark the next column over with a yes or no. As it stands I'm looking up over a hundred thousand values individually using control F. I was wondering if it is possible to look up the whole list at one time. This problem could also be phrases as searching for multiple unique values in a sheet at one time.
Any help?
Thank you!
Edit: So if I'm trying to find 4 values in a list of 1000 values, is there anyway to get the cell next to each of those 4 values to say "yes"? Or is that impossible? The 4 values in this case would be the lists from other excel files.
A simple COUNTIF will show whether a value exists in another column no matter whether that column is on another worksheet or another workbook altogether.
Example: With both workbooks open, use this formula to find out if the value in A1 is in another workbook's (Other WB.xlsx) Sheet1 column B.
=IF(COUNTIF([Other WB.xlsx]Sheet1!$B:$B, A1), "Yes", "No")
If the two workbooks are open, you can Alt+Tab between to select column B from the other workbook while you are creating the formula. If you close the other workbook, the formula will reflect the full path of the closed workbook automatically like,
=IF(COUNTIF('C:\Users\user\Documents\[Other WB.xlsx]Sheet1'!$B:$B, A1), "Yes", "No")
You can fill the formula down quickly by simply double-clicking on the small black square drag handle in the lower right of the the cell.
I'm trying to figure out what formula I can use to highlight duplicates in a spreadsheet.
I want to compare data across multiple cells to see if it matches with other sets of cells with the same data.
For example, given this data:
Name, Food, Animal
Donald, Hamburger, Alligator
Rupert, Sushi, Alligator
Christie, Hamburger, Panda
Donald, Hamburger, Alligator
I want to make excel highlight the 1st and 4th cells as all values are the same across all three cells. I've tried countif to create rules to highlight the duplicate cells but I cannot seem to get excel to compare across three cells. Is the only solution to use IF AND to compare each column one by one? The data set is several hundred rows long so I am trying to figure out a quick way I can repeat this check across multiple workbooks. I've tried to use the basic conditional formatting options provided by excel but haven't been able to get a good result using those.
Thank you!
If Name is in A1, please try a Conditional Formatting formula rule of:
=AND(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$100,$A1)>1,COUNTIF($B$1:$B$100,$B1)>1,COUNTIF($C$1:$C$100,$C1)>1)
with Applies to: =$A:$C.
I've got a spreadsheet containing several sheets and want to put all values from column A from each sheet into a single column on another sheet.
Is this possible?
Alternatively is there an easy way to "flatten" the data for export (each sheet has the same column structure)?
If I were you I would open up the macro recorder and then record your manual actions in doing what you want in VBA. The code will be quite simple to understand and then you will be able to edit it as you wish. VBA macros are ideal for this type of mundane data manipulation within a spreadsheet.
I think you need the VLOOKUP function, but I'm not clear on exactly what you want to do; do you want the new column to contain all the values from column A of sheet 1 followed by all the values from column A of sheet 2, then all values from column A of sheet 3 and so on, or do you want the new sheet to contain the sum (or means, or concatenation) of each of the column As from several other sheets?
You can put this command on the sheet where you want to paste all columns
=CONCATENATE(Sheet1!A1,Sheet2!A1)
The above command is only for extract data from two sheets, however you can add more i.e. Sheet3!A1....