Comparison Of Two Worksheets To Identify Anomalies On Either Sheet
Jan 19, 2013
how to compare two columns on two worksheets and extract any different entries - I have tried using filters and formulas but can't seem to get this to work. I've been looking at Macro's and VB but as a novice am finding it difficult to construct something that works!
My workbook contain two worksheets containing Journal titles and their ISSN's from different sources. I need to ensure the lists match on both columns and if not have a new summary worksheet of anomalies.
Example:
worksheet 1 worksheet 2
Column A Column B Column B Column C
publication_title print_identifier Title ISSN
Abacus 0001-3072 Abacus 0001-3072
Accounting 0810-5391 Accounting 0810-5391
Archaeologica 0065-101X Archaeologica 0077-4204
Acta Neurologica 0001-6314 Acta Geologica 1000-9515
So ideally my summary worksheet should have results:
Column A Column B
Archaeologica ISSN error
Acta Neurologica Title on worksheet 1
Acta Geologica Title on worksheet 2
These are lists with around 3000 entries on so VERY time consuming to do manually!
1. When I close the last open file, EXCEL stays open? why? what can be done?
2. When I open a workspace first after starting excel, the task bar does not show the files included. However, if I open another file first and then a workspace, all files are visible in the taskbar.
I have two sheets with many rows and about 8 columns. The second sheet is some of the rows copied and pasted from the first sheet. I have been asked to mark on the first sheet those rows that have been copied to the second sheet.
I need to check that the entire row matches before somehow making the corresponding row in the "original" sheet stand out.
Unfortunately, there is no unique identifier that I can search by. I have tried concatenating all columns into a new column on each sheet and then using MATCH but I get #VALUE! error.
I have a worksheet with a large amount of data in it. Every couple of months the data will change and I place this in a different sheet (sheet 2, this comes from a software tool) . Is there's some code that can run a check on sheet 1 compare all values against sheet 2 and highlight the rows that have a different value between sheet 1 and sheet 2? Perhaps paste the rows into sheet 3 with the different value highlighted??
Example of original and changed data attached : example_2.xlsx
I have an excel sheet that has conditional formatting. Whenever few cells are not in required format, the cell's backcolor will become red. I am trying to design a macro to check if there are any cells in red due to conditional formatting.
I have a VBA script that works great when run each day, as it's intended. But if a user skips a day, we end up with an error when deleting an old worksheet. The old worksheet to be deleted has a date as the sheet name (i.e. "2014-May-23").
We've developed some code to find the most recent FILE if there wasn't one created on the previous business date, but what VBA code can I enter to correctly identify and delete the old, outdated worksheet? My final spreadsheet should contain just two dates worksheets - one each for the past 2 business dates.
Here's a snippet of my current coding:
Code: Sub Master_3D_Macro() ' ' Master_3D_Macro Macro ' ' Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+j ' Dim CurrDate As Date Dim Holidays(1 To 9) As Date
I am using an event macro to trigger a set of calculations. In the spreadsheet, users have a choice of 3 input cells to work out an answer; these 3 cells work out the same cost from different angles depending on the variables available to the user.
Users only ever need to fill in one of the three cells to work out the answer as the event macro I designed, should (upon input by the user), work out the remaining two input cells using logical arguments.
The macro and calculation work fine, except in the event of users amending a value in an input cell previously updated; in other words, if all 3 cells contain a value and 1 of them is being changed by a user.
The issue: I need the event macro to recognise the location of the last change made by the user in order to determine which 2 of the 3 cells need to recalculate. However, users will invariably press enter or tab etc... upon making changes and this has caused me issues so far.
What I have tried already:
1) running another event macro "on selection change" to record elsewhere in the model all cell selections as and when the user interacts with the model
EFFECT: it made the "on change" event macro very slow and clunky; so I need to avoid 2) declaring a range as set r = activecell.address
EFFECT: this did not work as the active cell's address would in fact be the address on the last cell; e.g. the one selected further to pressing enter (often the one directly below the cell recently changed)
A solution to add to the existing "on change" event macro that identifies the last edited cell
I have been given an excel model to review;the workbook has 53 sheets. I would like to know if there is a way to create a flowchart/matrix with the relation of all the sheets. I would like at least to get a list of all the sheets related to each sheet. All what I was able to do is to get all the sheet names in one sheet. (I am using Excel 2003).
So I have a bunch of not so simple excel sheets in a Excel file. I'm trying to automate the testing of these (right now, I'm doing the testing manually).
To simplify, let's say there are two sheets - both of them have a cell called "Total" at the end, which is nothing much a total of some column. My test is to check if these two totals are the same. We don't know the number of rows before hand (it is coming from a database). The way I'm doing right now, is searching for the cell containing the text "Total" getting it's row and column, and adding 1 to the column, to get the cell that actually has the total value. Do this for both the sheets, and I have both values, and it's easy to compare now.
If someone changes the text from "Total" to "Totals" then this will fail.
Questions:
1. Is there a better way to do this? Say, setting a unique parameter or something on the cell that actually has the total value, and using that unique parameter to search the cell?
2. Or is there a totally different (better) approach to this type of testing?
I have attached my sample XL sheet. Column A & B will be imported from computer system, only one p/n and quanity. Column C & D will be scanned in from multiple trucks and warehouse, p/n might show up multiple times with different quanities. I need to compare A&B to C&D and come up with a recount sheet that shows the difference as in E&F. Ideally this could be put on another sheet that could be printed out for recounting. Is it possible to do all these different functions automatically. There will be somewhere between 3000-5000 different p/n's.
I have designed a spreadsheet and i want a seperate worksheet (sheet3 for arguments sake) to retrieve customer data from worksheet 2 - The data I required is the customer data currently contained on columns A - H and there are around 50 rows. (A2 - I51). I want the seperate sheet to identify entries that have today's date in column I and then list them in Worksheet 3.
Im having difficulties with the syntax for retrieving the data from a seperate worksheet. There may be several entries for the same date and I want to the seperate sheet to report all customer data in worksheet 3? Also, if the date falls on a weekend I would like to retrieve any data for the weekend on the Monday so all cases can be reviewed.
I have two rows of data, each row also have similar data. I need to find the number of matches that the two lines For example :
7,7,K,A,8,7 K,6,7,7,A,9
To reach the conclusion I need to build six such functions: =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,A66)>=COUNTIF($A66:A66,A66)) =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,B66)>=COUNTIF($A66:B66,B66)) =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,C66)>=COUNTIF($A66:C66,C66)) =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,D66)>=COUNTIF($A66:D66,D66)) =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,E66)>=COUNTIF($A66:E66,E66)) =1*(COUNTIF($A$65:$F$65,F66)>=COUNTIF($A66:F66,F66))
The result is 4
Is there a single formula that will give the result ?
Another question, is there a formula that I can compare to the principle of one line against the 20 lines ?
Compare 2 columns of data and have a new 3th column tell me the result of the query based on some conditional information. So, here's an example.
Column A = Programmer Assigned (Yes/No) Column B = Project State (concept, plan, develop, qualify, rollout, etc)
I'd like to compare the values in A to B and have the formula tell me if the programmer should be assigned in that phase or not. So, in english.
If A = No, then look to see if B = "develop" or "qualify", if it does, populate C with "Update required". If it doesn't, populate with "Correct".
I hope I explained it well enough for you all to help. I originally looked into using conditional formatting to just format the cell differently if I needed to perform an action.
to compare the values of data on one sheet (sheet1) with that of another (sheet2) to see if there has been any changes between the sheets over the previous week. If a macro could go through my data on sheet1, compare cell-by-cell the data that's in sheet 2 and highlight in red font any cells that have different values that would be awesome.
The macro would need to leave the "fill color" of the cell as it was.
I have two spreadsheets, The spreadsheet #1 has the information of two years and the Spreadsheet #2 is a montly report. The Spreadsheet # 1 hasta on the column A a number of transaction, and at the column Q the invoice number. The Spreadsheet # 2, only has in the column A the Invoice number. I need to find in the Spreadsheet # 1 the Invoice numbers that match the Invoices that I have in the Spreadsheet # 2 by bringin the "Number of Transaction".
For example: Spreadsheet 1: Has on column A3 the Number of Transaction # 0123, and at the column Q3 the Invoice number 555. At the Spreadsheet number # 2 I have the INvoice # 555 located on A10. I need to know what is the transaction # by adding a formula in a new column (G) so I want to have the Transaction # 0123 in the new column added G.
If I do this manually it will take me hours since these report and the Master is so big, and right now I am doin it using Ctrl-F
How in VBA can you evaluate a cell in the "general" format and in the "date" format? I'd perfer do this entirely in VBA without use of a helper column in Excel.
I have two columns of items that need to be compaired. What I need is the items in column B that do not match any of the items in column A need to be put in Column C. How can I do this? The Data in Column A can not be re arranged. Column B can be sorted.
I am trying to compare two cells to see if its two values are the same. Some of the cells have a space in between numbers or a symbol like "-"
Ex.
one cell's value is 1213180IN
and the other cell's value is 1213180-IN
the program I have written marks these as different because of the "-" in the second cell....is there a way, maybe with a string function to overlook that "-"?
I have a spreadsheet and I'm comparing data from a room booking system and a spot check on the room to see whether it's actually used. I have a column which I want to show whether the information agrees.
column G - I have a group size recorded that should be in a room. column H - I have "yes" or "no" as to whether there was anyone in the room when it was checked column I - I have the size of the actual group in the room.
Is it possible to create a formula that will fill in column J with the answer yes or no depending on whether it agrees.
It doesn't matter whether the groups sizes match, it's just a case of yes, someone was booked into the room and there was someone in when it was checked
OR
No, there was a booking supposed to be in the room but there was no one in it when checked
OR
There was no booking but there was someone in the room when checked.
I need to compare the MMDD in two cells. Example: If the Accrual date is 09/07/10, then I need to know if it falls in the payroll period date of 01/12/12. I just need the MMDD compare to put in my IF statement.
I have two tabs in a workbook. Each has a column containing a unique numerical identifier. What I want to do is create a macro that will loop through the column on tabA, verify it against the column on tabB and when a match occurs delete the row on tabA. The end result should be that only the new items on tabA will remain. Let me know if this is sufficiently clear or still a bit vague.
I am writing some code to do a comparison between two cells X2 or AB2 with an X which checks to: 1. make sure one of the two are filled, or 2. both are not filled. Below is an extract of the spreadsheet I am working on. I need to check to make sure one of the boxes is checked. If both are empty or both filled with an ("X"), I want a message box to tell me to correct the error and stop the macro from continuing. If only one is marked with an ("X"), I want the macro to continue but don't know how.
I have to do monthly comparisons of two excel worksheets, one being a vessel timesheet and the other being an excel download from manpower software that we use. The comparison that is being made are days of the month, whilst the unique identifier between the two sheets (To make it easier to understand I will call them sheet1 and sheet2) is an employee ID. Both sheets, alongside the name and employee ID, list all the days of the month that employees have worked. If they have worked, there is a "1" under that day, if they have not the cell is blank.
What I currently do manually is:
1: Search for the employee ID (and/or name) in sheet1 and compare the days with the employee ID in sheet2. 2: Highlight the differences 3: Move onto the next employee ID
All differences are highlighted in sheet2. Differences highlighted are in the days only, where if any days are missing/extra in either sheet, then the particular cell(s) are highlighted in yellow. If an employee is missing from sheet1 but is in sheet2, then all the days are highlighted (in sheet2). If an employee is missing from sheet2 but is in sheet1, then that particular employee is copied to the bottom of sheet2 (after last row).
As this is horribly complicated to explain, I can attach an example if this is sounding rather inexplicable? Is it possible to attach a xls to a thread?
I am constructing a spreadsheet which is intended to highlight Just in time and late jobs. I have headings job number/Customer/Delivery Date/ Revised Manufacture Date. The first three are already populated by extracting data from our erp system and we enter the revised run date ourselves.
What I am looking for is a formula which shows if the revised run date entry is a day prior to the delivery date then populate the last cell with JIT and colour the cell yellow. Or if the revised run date entry matches or is beyond the delivery date, populate the last cell with LATE and colour the cell red.
With a set of data in colums by quarter and department names in by row I need to answer build a formula that answers simple questions like "what department had the fewest sick days per quarter?" and which department had the most sick days per quarter?"
Can you use a variable as an operator? For example:
Dim op op = ">" If Var1 op Var2 Then MsgBox "It Works!"
I have parameters stored in a database and each parameter includes an operator. When I compare a given value to the parameter, I was hoping to do that dynamically by extracting the operator from the parameter and using that in the comparison. Otherwise, the only way I can see to do it is create a Function with a Select Case list for all the operators to check the parameter, do the comparison, then return the value to the Function.
