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    Hi guys... Can I get a VBA code that searches and highlights the case sensitive text in one column that matches short list (50 words) of the correct written text found on other column?

    I have more than 4000 names of whatever in the column that need to search inside the correct written words. They are duplicates, most of them, but that is not the problem. They should have been written in a specific way (I have a list of them), but someone manually wrote them differently. The filter cannot make the distinction between "MIKE" and "Mike" or "miKe", however VBA is case sensitive, so must be a solution.

    Can be solved without the need to invent and upload a sample file? Must be easy to understand what I ask. Thank you!
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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    Well, if you want vba code, you can record your own macro.
    Then all you need to do is edit macro so that you can use if for other searches
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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    Quote Originally Posted by Keebellah View Post
    Well, if you want vba code, you can record your own macro.
    Then all you need to do is edit macro so that you can use if for other searches
    Record doing what? There is no way to filter case sensitive in Excel.

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    Who's talking about Filter I'm taking about Search.
    If you start recording a macro and then press Ctrl + F ( the find dialog) you can specify case sensitive or not and where to search.
    After the search is completed you stop macro recorder and look at what is written in the vba code; it serves as a starting point.

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    1) I do not need to search, but to have a selection of the results... this is what a filter can do, or a conditional formatting, not the "Find/Replace" dialog
    2) In the Find dialog you can specify only one word (I doesn't help I can use *). I need to have a match with a list of words
    3) Recording a macro with a search for one word is giving only the selected column I searched within...
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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander2020 View Post
    Can I get a VBA code that searches and highlights the case sensitive text in one column that matches short list (50 words) of the correct written text found on other column?
    They should have been written in a specific way (I have a list of them), but someone manually wrote them differently. The filter cannot make the distinction between "MIKE" and "Mike" or "miKe", however VBA is case sensitive, so must be a solution.
    It fully depends on how you write the code, it can be case insensitive.

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    @Keebellah... I understood what you were suggesting... Not only FIND... but making REPLACE and select a format as coloring the results. And I have a working code. This is sample of it, for only 2 words "ALBA" and "ARAD". I get them highlighted in yellow, while "Alba", "AlBa", "alba" or "Arad", "ArAd", "arad" are not. So I can put filter on color later.

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    Now... my question is... I have 50 words in my list... I can repeat the task for each of them, but is there a way to write this code in a more compact way? To give the list of the words inside brackets or something and inside other brackets the replacement (same word), but will do the trick to color them?

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    I'll see what I can do later this evening

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    I have found this code on the net:
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    And I have adapted to my situation (I should mention that I have already a filter on that sheet with a selection on the column J, so I had also to remove the filter in my code):

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    Of course I made it for 3 words and I can add now all my list inside the code.
    I welcome anyone that wants to improve it (should be... maybe specify the range instead the selection... I am a totally newbie in VBA, so I believe there is place for improvement).
    Anyway... it works already for me this code... so the problem is SOLVED. Thank you Keebellah for suggesting to do recording macro on find/replace... I used multiple times the tool to find my way.

    How can be modified the code to point at the list of the words located in Sheet2 instead of including all the searched words inside the VBA code? You know... when you have 50 words like me, the code doesn't look so pretty.

    I wait 24 hours and if nothing new I will mark the thread as "Solved".
    Last edited by Alexander2020; 09-07-2020 at 01:52 AM.

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    Re: search & highlight the case sensitive text in one column that match a list on other co

    Hi Alexander, II did not add any explanation to the code but this works for anything.
    In The worksheet FINDTEXTS are two list (named ranges)
    Column A the text to search for
    Column B the replacement text
    The search text is NOT case sensitive but will search anything you place in column A and replace it with what is in column B
    Sheet1 has a button to press.

    Column J is the column you used too and in Column I is a copy of J so you can see the changes
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