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?
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!peacebill
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