Re: how to highlight duplicate text in columns?

[bill <billd post com>]

Thank you so much guys, and especially Andreas (If you are not teaching this stuff somewhere, you should be). This is exactly what i needed, and your instructions are spot on. It's a little more involved than with LibreCalc or Excl, but a small sacrifice as i so much prefer Gnumeric.

 

Kudos to the list in general as well! Every time i post here i save a ton of time. I was actually considering doing a "copy" and "search" for each item in a long column.

 

peace

bill

 

Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2018 at 2:58 PM
From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>
To: gnumeric-list gnome org
Subject: Re: how to highlight duplicate text in columns?

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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