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Conditional formatting of adjacent cells based on text in cell

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    Conditional formatting of adjacent cells based on text in cell

    Hello,

    I have an excel sheet that is updated daily from reports in business
    objects. There are 2 coumns, both have an address in them, similar to
    below:

    100 LEVALL BLVD 100 LEVALL BLVD
    100 NORTH ROCKWELL SUITE 108 100 NORTH ROCKWELL
    100 W GENESEE STREET 100 W GENESEE STREET
    10100 DIXIE HWY 10100 DIXIE HWY

    I am looking to make a conditional format that says if the text in
    column A, doesnt match column B, turn it red, if it does match, turn it
    green. 99% of the time, both cells should be identicle, if the person
    didn't mess up. We are looking to spot quickly any errors (what would
    show up in red) instead of spending hours looking manually if there are
    differences.

    As seen above, rows 1,3, and 4 are good, they match exactly, where as 2
    does not, and would need to show up in red to alert us we need to make
    a change. I cant seem to get this to work, can someone offer some
    assistance?

    -Josh


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    Select column A and use conditional formatting formula is option with formula

    =A1<>B1

    note this isn't case sensitive. If you want it to be

    =NOT(EXACT(A1,B1))

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