COUNTIF command in Microsoft excel 2010
Standard excel document with 2 sheets in office 2010
How can 2 rows be compare and highlight the values, when the value shows in both list.
Example
Sheet 1 | Sheet 2
A A
1234 4324
2222 3338
3333 1234
4444 4556
Now I excel need to automatically highlight the value 1234 because it show in both rows.
Current I try to get this done by using the COUNTIF statement
=COUNTIF(sheet1!$A$2:$A$3,
As soon I hit enter I got an error message, the formula you typed in contains an error.
test.xlsx
How can 2 rows be compare and highlight the values, when the value shows in both list.
Example
Sheet 1 | Sheet 2
A A
1234 4324
2222 3338
3333 1234
4444 4556
Now I excel need to automatically highlight the value 1234 because it show in both rows.
Current I try to get this done by using the COUNTIF statement
=COUNTIF(sheet1!$A$2:$A$3,
As soon I hit enter I got an error message, the formula you typed in contains an error.
test.xlsx
ASKER
Standard edition from Microsoft excel 2010,
First selected column A on sheet 2, then I go to the option conditional formatting, then fill in the formula and selected a specific color and as soon I click on it reports the above error.
First selected column A on sheet 2, then I go to the option conditional formatting, then fill in the formula and selected a specific color and as soon I click on it reports the above error.
Does the formula work if you enter it on a worksheet?
ASKER
No have tried that any other statement seems to work fine
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ASKER
Thanks, you help me a lot,
It's very strange it must be a problem with office I checked the formula in your sheet and it works well :). Then in a new empty document same formula it doesn't work.
But then there is no reason to troubleshoot this further as this pc is going soon anyway.
For further reference we confirmed that the formula works. :-)
It's very strange it must be a problem with office I checked the formula in your sheet and it works well :). Then in a new empty document same formula it doesn't work.
But then there is no reason to troubleshoot this further as this pc is going soon anyway.
For further reference we confirmed that the formula works. :-)
ASKER
Thanks for helping get this problem fixed
Where are you using the formula?