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    Find differences between 2 excel sheets or tables

    Hi,

    I am trying to find differences between 2 super large excel sheets. I have a table in Sheet 1 and an almost identical table in Sheet 2. Sheet 2's table has cells with changed or deleted values though. I want to highlight or know about changes between Sheet 2 and 1. I found the excel VBA code below on the internet:

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    It almost works. The problem is that it highlights way too many cells whenever a row in Sheet 2 will have disappeared compared to Sheet 1. The code above compares the 2 sheets with respect to the content of cells relative to their position in the sheet (e.g. Cell B18 in Sheet 1 == Cell B18 in Sheet 2??). I would like it to compare the values in the 2 tables based on the ID number in the very left column of both tables. That way, if a row is deleted in the table from sheet 1 to sheet 2, I will not have all cells highlighted in Sheet 2 from that deleted row downwards.

    I attached a simplified version of my excel sheet tables. The real one has thousands of rows. test1.xlsm

    Thanks!

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    Re: Find differences between 2 excel sheets or tables

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    Re: Find differences between 2 excel sheets or tables

    Hi FDibbins,

    Thanks for the welcome! I apologize for not respecting the rules. As you realized, I am pretty new at this. Thanks for editing my post.

    Back to the issue, I like how differences are highlighted in yellow in Sheet 2 with the current VBA code above. It is pretty convenient and visually easy to spot. Unfortunately, it is impossible to highlight a row that has disappeared in Sheet 2. For deleted rows (that are in Sheet1's table, but not in Sheet 2's), I think a good way to analyze these would be to copy and paste them from Sheet 1 to Sheet 3. This way any value differences for a given ID would be highlighted in yellow in Sheet 2's table. Deleted IDs and their corresponding table values would be shown on Sheet 3. New IDs and table rows could also be highlighted in Sheet 2 (the new lines at the bottom of the table relative to Sheet 1).

    This idea is just a suggestion. It could also be equally good to have deleted rows highlighted in blue or another color on Sheet 1. The end goal really is to know what values have changed, disappeared or appeared with to a given ID between the 2 tables.

    Hope this makes sense!

    Thanks a lot!

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    Re: Find differences between 2 excel sheets or tables

    I am thinking of doing some sort of VLOOKUP between the 2 tables on the ID column (very left) to see which ID has disappeared. I am afraid this will take too much juice out of my processor though as there are some many cells involved... Hence the VBA code above...

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