Does anyone know how I can compare 2 spreadsheets?
ie Spreadsheet A is old and the Spreadsheet B is new. A has stuff B hasnt so bits need to be deleted from A and B has stuff A hasnt so bits need to be added to A. A modified, up to date A is the one I want.
Im using Quattro Pro because it can support more columns than Excel but its otherwise the same really. I know you can get programs which compare excel files but im not sure they wiil cater for the extra columns.
Many Thanks
no, but you would need to create a third spreadsheet, i don’t remember exactly how to do this, so i could very esily be wrong, but here goes, in the cell/s in the third sheet you created type:if="path to filename 1"!"sheet name"!"cell range"="path to filename 2"!"sheet name"!"cell range",,
no i can’t remember
sorry
Thanks Donkey.
I might just have to do it by hand because they are big spreadsheets and I used up all my RAM and most of my pagefile just from sorting by name instead of number. I got out of memory buttons flashing up n everything.
wish i could have been more help, but its been years since i did any serious spreadsheet work, the last time i used a spreadsheet, i think MS Office was either on 95 or 97
Done it! What a headache! I got so confused with what I needed to do I wrote down a list of the steps I had to carry out which ammounted to a whole a4 page. Lots of juggling between excel quattro tab-delimited and .xls and .qpw even with the program!
well done, i’m not jelous, never thought of exporting data, don’t loose that piece of paper, glad you got it sorted though
Yeah, I know how you feel. I have to compare 2 .csv files in Excel at least every other week to match stock; its a headache alright:P