Re: how to highlight duplicate text in columns?

[Bruce Hohl <brucehohl gmail com>]

Thanks for that post, I did not know before how to use "_expression_ x evaluate to True".

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca> wrote:

Let's say that A1:A10 is the region of interest.

Select A1 down to A10 so that A1 is the primary cell.
Then choose Format->Cells->Conditional Formatting
Click Edit Style and pick the Background Color Red, OK
Select as condition "_expression_ x evaluates to TRUE".
Enter as x: countif(A$1:A$10,A1)>1  and finish with tab
click "Add"
click "close"

Any cells with duplicate value in A1:A10 should now be highlighted in red.

Andreas

On 2018-07-01 06:13 AM, Bruce Hohl via gnumeric-list wrote:

I don't really know if the conditional format feature can do that, but you can use something like countif(A$1:A$10,A1) in another column to determine which cells are duplicates (i.e. count > 1).  Then you could use conditional formatting on the countif() column.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 5:41 PM, bill <billd post com> wrote:

Hi all,

 

I'm thinking this would fall under conditional formatting, but have not been able to find the option i need in the program or manual. I need to search a single column containing some 12,000 rows of text and highlight any duplicates without removing anything. Any help much appreciated!

 

peace

bill

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