Demonstration of how repeated values are highlighted In that post, Artem commented, The quickest way to find all about two lists is to select them both and them click on Conditional Formatting -> Highlight cells rules -> Duplicate Values (Excel 2007). I have manually highlighted the cells with identical values in Column B green for demonstrative purposes. Last week we discussed a fun and easy way to compare two lists of data in excel using conditional formatting. Note how the values of the highlighted cells in Column A are repeated in Column B. Preview of workbook after Conditional Formatting has been set The conditional formatting rule then will be applied to all values of the column and should look like this. If you are happy with the formatting you have specified click OK. You will be redirected back to the New Formatting Rule window and will be given a preview of the formatting you have selected. After having specified the format you want click OK. Change the cell color by clicking on the Fill tab and selecting a colorħ. It is possible to set a different cell color for duplicate values by clicking the Fill tab and selecting a background color. After this find another option that is Duplicate Values. Click on the conditional formatting drop-down arrow. Find the conditional formatting icon available on the ribbon. Click on the Format button and specify the format you want to set. Choose the cells from where you want to find duplicate values. =countif($B:$B, $A1) Enter the formula provided in the text boxĦ.
Proceed by entering the following formula in the ‘ Format values where this formula is true‘ box:
Select the ‘Use a formula to determine which cells to format’ optionĥ. Select ‘ Use a formula to determine which cells to format‘ as a rule in the New Formatting Rule window. Select New Rule from the Conditional Formatting drop-down listĤ. Select the New Rule option from the Conditional Formatting button drop-down list. Select the Conditional Formatting button under the Home tabģ. Select the Conditional Formatting button on the Home tab. Highlight column A by clicking the column headerĢ. Click on the Column Header to highlight Column A.
#Compare two columns in excel to find duplicates how to#
In this tutorial I will show you how to compare two columns in Excel so that the values that appear in both columns become highlighted and you can do something with those duplicate values.
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