duplicate conditional formatting

[detlion1643]

I have a whole column filled with data, ranging from about 100-500 rows of data depending on the day. Sometimes duplicates happen, and I need to know about it. What I am hoping to do, is look for duplicates, but format different duplicates differently.
ex)
889546
446533
889546
25846
2156
25846

If it is possible to highlight all 889546 cells one color and 25846 another color etc. As I understand, colorindexing is done by numbers, is it possible to loop through this as well?

[thompsy121]

Hi there,

You need to use conditional formatting. Simply click on a cell...i would start at A1, then click format, conditional formatting.

At this stage on condition 1 change the drop down menu to "equals to", in the next box type the number you are looking for eg "889546".

Once you have done this click format, patterns, pick the relevant colour, then click Ok twice.

Once you have done this click back into cell A1, copy, then select the cell range where you want the formats to apply to. Right click and press paste special. Then click formats...this will copy the colour-coding/conditional formatting to the relevant cells but will not copy any text/values etc.

Please find attached a quick example.

I have set the formats to search for 889546 and turn them red and 25846 yellow.

On this example i have copied the formatting to every cell on the sheet. If you have a look at the conditional formatting...you can see the two formats i have applied.

HTH

[thompsy121]

Also if you try simply typing the relevant number into any blank cell - the colour will adjust accordingly. If you delete all the numbers on this sheet - everything will turn white again. But the conditional formatting will still remain in the background.

Have a play around.

Thanks

[detlion1643]

Thompsy, thanks for the reply. However, I do not know what the numbers will be each time the sheet populates. I was hoping to get some vba code that will search for duplicates and conditionally format the cells, but changing for each new duplicate that was found.

For the time being, I am using your described way as a workaround.

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