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    Question To Check Duplicates

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    How to know the Duplicates when comparing two columns, and the duplicates cells need to be highligted.

    Example: Column A and Column G, the column A contains Name " Spence" and Coulmn G contains "Spence". so, both are duplicates.

    Kindly assist me !!

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    Re: To Check Duplicates

    Hi pravn and welcome to the forum,

    You need to search for "Conditional Formatting". See some examples at:
    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/micro...in-excel-2007/
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...5-c23a51e57418
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    Re: To Check Duplicates

    Thanks for your reply. But i am going to compare several rows like A|C|D in these rows the duplicates needs to be highlighted.


    Thanks,
    Praveen D

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    Re: To Check Duplicates

    Yup and the links provided will tell you how to do that. You can conditional format on 1 column or multiple.

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