When you have two similar Excel workbooks, or better say two versions of the same workbook, what's the first thing you usually want to do with them? Right, compare those files for differences, and then probably merge them into a single file. In addition, workbook comparison can help you spot potential problems like broken links, duplicate records, inconsistent formulas or wrong formatting.
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If you have relatively small workbooks and a sharp eye for detail, this quick and easy way to compare Excel files might work well for you. I am talking about View Side by Side mode that lets you arrange two Excel windows side by side. You can use this method to visually compare two workbooks or two sheets in the same workbook.
So, if you need advanced and really efficient means to compare two Excel files, then most likely you would have to use one of the third-party tools specially designed for comparing, updating and merging Excel sheets and workbooks. Below you will find a quick overview of a few tools that, in my opinion, are best performers in this area.
Using the xlCompare utility, you can compare two Excel files, worksheets, names and VBA Projects. It identifies added, deleted and changed data and allows you to quickly merge differences. In addition, it provides the following options:
Hi Svetlana - I have a task to to check for 'new' or 'updates' from the last week's data, and the data is huge, mostly the updates are change in dates, or some minor details. new updates/new info comes in a different workbook each, can you suggest me a quick solution to compare and identify the data between old massive listing and the new short listing of 'new and updated info'? can I amend your above formula to compare between two diff workbooks than sheets?Thanks so much in advance.
I would like to compare two excel files , which has many sheets within and merge it in the base file. These are not shared workbook but people have modified and saved it in different name. It would be of great help, if you could help out on this.
I have a app in excel that contain 20 different sheets... some of one are menus to navigate thought the workbook.... The principal WB its a shared WB an there are 8 copies of the WB with different names in the same folder. The folder contain only the original an copies of the app wb. I need a code in vba to compare and merge the different workbooks that contain the folder with the open copy in automatic way, without the specific user have to select the other copies to compare an merge. In this moment I don't have a previous code to show you. 2ff7e9595c
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