I need to compare maintenance programme revisions, for an aircraft.
- 2 different revisions.
- Revision 0 has number of tasks (c. 2000)
- Revision 1 has new tasks, deleted tasks or tasks with changed due dates, times etc. (c. 2100)
- Task data in each can be spread over multiple rows.
- Aim: Compare Rev. 0 & Rev. 1 for new, deleted or revised data.
- Example: Sheet attached.
I typically use the following method (I would attach a video, but max ZIP file size is 9mb, video is 20mb).
- Extract sheet from Maintenance System, with tasks at Revision 0.
- Extract sheet from Maintenance System, with tasks at Revision 1.
- Copy 1st sheet in Excel, (tasks at Revision 0) to new 3rd sheet.
- Name 3rd sheet 'Comparison', between Revision 0 and Revision 1.
- Copy tasks from Revision 1 into the 3rd sheet also, for side-by-side comparison
- Use formula "=A1=B1", to compare tasks for new tasks, new due dates, etc.
- If a new task has been added, or task deleted a number of FALSE values will appear
- I manually cut these and paste into 4th sheet entitled 'Differences'
- Exercise Aim 1: Identify new or deleted tasks in 'Differences' sheet.
- Exercise Aim 2: Identify task differences in 'Comparison' sheet.
Typically, there are 2000 tasks, with c. 500 differences, cutting takes a long time. Is there a less manual method of doing this?![]()
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