Re: how to highlight duplicate text in columns?

bill <[email protected]>
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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" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

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 <[email protected] > 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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