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Jen Fisayo

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December 26, 2021 - 1:56 am
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I have an Excel file with 2 columns containing addresses (data on sheet 2). I want to compare the columns and point out the differences. I tried to use conditional formatting but its not working. Can someone please help. Thanks 

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A couple of issues with your data.  One is all caps while the other is initial caps.  These are not matches.  Additionally, once I capitalize all there are trailing spaces in some, so I trimmed them both.  I did this all in Power Query and then merged (Full outer join) to determine the differences.  You can see all this in the attached file.

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i would use match, but i assume you will need to do a 2 way match

=MATCH(TRIM(A2),TRIM(C:C),0)

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