Customize Quick Access For Excel Compare And Merge Workbooks

How to compare two sheets in same workbook or different workbooks?

In our daily work, we may encounter the job is to compare two sheets in a same workbook or different workbooks to find the differences between them. Here I introduce some tricks on solving this job in Excel.

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Compare and highlight the differences between two ranges in two sheets

Click the “Quick Access Toolbar” link on the left side of the window, then pull down the “Choose commands from” menu at the top and select “All Commands.” Scroll to “Compare and Merge Workbooks,” double-click it so it appears on the right side column, then click the “OK” button to add it to the toolbar. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click Compare and Merge Workbooks. If prompted, save the workbook. In the Select Files to Merge into Current Workbook dialog box, click the copy of the workbook that contains the changes you want to merge. Merge excel sheets to one › Verified 3 days ago.

Compare two sheets in the same workbook

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In Excel, you can apply the New Window utility to compare two sheets in the same workbook.

1. Enable the workbook you want to compare two sheets within, and then click View > New Window. See screenshot:

2. Then go to the task bar to display the new window of the current workbook. See screenshot:

3. Go to the two sheets you want to compare from each window and arrange them side by side. See screenshot:

4. Now compare two sheets as you need.

Compare two ranges and select and highlight the same or different values in Excel

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Compare two sheets in two different workbooks

If the two sheets you want to compare in two different workbooks, you can apply the View Side by Side utility to handle it.

Open the two sheets you want to compare between, and activate one sheet and click View > View Side by Side. See screenshot:

Then the two sheets in two workbooks have been displayed horizontally.
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And then you can compare two sheets as you need.

List all differences between two sheets in the same workbook

If you want to list all differences between two sheets in the same workbook, you can apply a formula to a new sheet to solve it.

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1. Open the workbook which contains the sheets you want to compare and create a new sheet. See screenshot:

2. In the new sheet, select a blank cell, for instance, A1, and type this formula =IF(Sheet1!A1<> Sheet7!A1, 'Sheet1:'&Sheet1!A1&' vs Sheet7:'&Sheet7!A1, '), Sheet1 and Sheet7 are the sheets you want to compare with, and A1 is the first cell you want to compare. See screenshot:

3. Then drag the auto fill handle over the range you need to compare between two sheets. See screenshot:

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Now the differences between two sheets have been listed.


Highlight differences between two sheets in the same workbook

With the Conditional Formatting utility, you can highlight the differences between two sheets in the same workbook.

1. Select the range in one of both worksheets you want to highlight differences and click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule. See screenshot:

2. In the popping out dialog, choose to Use a formula to determine which cells to format in the Select a Rule Type section, and type this formula =A1<>Sheet7!A1 in the Format values where this formula is true box, then click Format to specify formatting style to highlight the cells. See screenshot:

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3. Click OK > OK, and now the differences have been highlighted.

Compare and highlight the differences between two ranges in two sheets

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After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Click Kutools > Select > Select Same & Different Cells. See screenshot:

2. In the popping dialog, click Browse button in the Find values in and According to box to select the two ranges you want to compare with, and check Single cell and Different values options, and specify the background color and font color to highlight the differences. See screenshot:

3. Click Ok, a dialog pops out to remind you the different cells have been found, and click OK to close it, the differences have been highlighted and selected as well.


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Customize Quick Access For Excel Compare And Merge Workbooks In Excel 2016

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    I need a direct method to compare two workbooks. One is an autosaved copy, I need to know if I need to save it or if the original is all I need.
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    WHY IN EXCEL 2007 IN MY OFFICE NOT WORK THE A1<>SHEET!A1 NOT WORK
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      In my Excel 2007, the formula =IF(Sheet1!A1<> Sheet7!A1, 'Sheet1:'&Sheet1!A1&' vs Sheet7:'&Sheet7!A1, ') also work, maybe that is something wrong while you copy the formula?