Instead of having the TRUE or FALSE values, you can set the value for matching or different data. This is similar to the above method, but it comes with the advantage that you can customize the displayed value. And the If formula noted above does not give correct results: It will indicate that two dates are different, when they are not. A different method to analyze Excel data from two columns is to use an IF function. The duplicate numbers are displayed in column B, as in the.
Click on Inquire tab and then under Compare section, click on Compare Files.
Step 2: Here is our Current Workbook which has some changed data as you can see. You can find duplicate values are highlighted with Green fill with Dark Green Text as shown below. In Excel 2007 and later versions of Excel, select Fill in the Editing group, and then select Down. Step 1: We have our Earlier workbook like this: Earlier Workbook. However, Excel still does not seem to recognize these as dates, because when clicking on those cells, they are not displayed above as m/dd/yyyy. Click Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cell Rules > Duplicate values A dialog box appears Select the Duplicate option from the dropdown list as shown in above snapshot. I attempted to change this to a date format by selecting those cells -> Format Cells -> Custom -> then entered yyyymmdd, as this is the way that the date is represented in this field.
The problem is that the formats of the "date" columns are different, and Excel does not appear to recognize one of those columns as dates.Ĭolumn A: The format is dd-mmm-yy, and Excel seems to recognize these as dates because, when I click on a cell, it is displayed above as m/dd/yyyy.Ĭolumn B: The format for these cells was General, initially. To compare two columns in Excel row-by-row, write a usual IF formula that compares the first two cells.Enter the formula in some other column in the same row, and then copy it down to other cells by dragging the fill handle (a small square in the bottom-right corner of the selected cell). I have two "date" columns in my spreadsheet, and my goal is to compare the two dates for each record and flag those that are not equal:
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