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    Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    Hello! I'm getting very frustrated with this

    I need to highlight changes in a table in sheet 1 if they are different than the table in sheet 2. Sheet 1's table live updates numbers and I want to show where new changes appear.

    If I have this table in Sheet 1:
    # Name Code
    1 Yellow PB-4
    1 Yellow PB-5
    1 Yellow PB-6
    2 Red PB-08
    3 Orange PB-11


    And this table in Sheet 2:
    # Name Code
    1 Yellow PB-4
    2 Red PB-08
    3 Orange PB-11

    I need PB-5 and PB-6 to be highlighted in the Yellow section, where they've been added.

    The problem I'm encountering is that if PB-05 is in the BLUE section in both tables, I would only want it to be highlighted where I added it to the yellow section - so the # and Name attached to the code also need to be accounted for in the formula.

    Can you help me before I pull all my hair out?

    Thank you!
    Meggo

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    Re: Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    Use COUNTIFS on Name and Code columns to check if the combination exists in the Sheet1. If it's zero ( 0 ) then it's new and needs to be highlighted.
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    Re: Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    What would that formula look like? Esp if they are in different sheets?

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    Re: Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    Please post a sample file.

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    Re: Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    Here you are!

    Thanks a million!

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    Re: Need help getting this Conditional Formatting to work...

    Using Trevor's method:

    Set CF formula in Sheet1 to:

    =COUNTIFS(Sheet2!B:B,$B2,Sheet2!C:C,$C2)=0
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