How do I highlight two cells in Excel with the same value?

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Here are the steps to do this:

Select the entire data set.
Click the Home tab.
In the Styles group, click on the ‘Conditional Formatting’ option.
Hover the cursor on the Highlight Cell Rules option.
Click on Duplicate Values.
In the Duplicate Values dialog box, make sure ‘Duplicate’ is selected.
Specify the formatting.

Can you make Excel highlight duplicates?

From the dropdown, choose Highlight Cells Rules, and then choose Duplicate Values from the resulting submenu (Figure A). Choose a preset format from the dropdown to the right (Figure B). When you click OK, Excel highlights the duplicate values in column D, as shown in Figure C.

How do you highlight cells that are equal in the same cell?

Write the formula for the top-left cell. So, always write your conditional formatting formula for the 1st row with data. For example, if your data starts in row 2, you put =A$2=10 to highlight cells with values equal to 10 in all the rows.

How do I highlight all cells with the same name?

Select the combined names, then click Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Duplicate Values. Select the format you want to highlight duplicates from the values with list. Click OK.

How do I color the same data in Excel?

Select the data range you want to color the duplicate values, then click Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Duplicate Values.

Then in the popping dialog, you can select the color you need to highlight duplicates from the drop down list of values with.
Click OK.

How do I highlight a row in Excel with the same value?

To highlight duplicate rows, first select cells from A1 to A9. Go to HOME >> Styles >> Conditional Formatting >> Highlight Cells Rules and select Duplicate Values. A new window will appear. Make sure that you’ve selected Duplicate and click OK.

How do I highlight duplicates in Excel but keep one?

How to highlight duplicate values except first instance in Excel?

Select the data column that you want to highlight the duplicates except first.
Click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule, see screenshot:

How do I highlight a row in Excel based on one cell?

Re: Conditional formatting for entire row based on data in one cell

Select any cell in row 1.
Go to ‘Conditional Formatting>New Rule>Use a formula to determine which cells to format’
In the formula field paste =$D1=”Shipped”, set the required format and click ‘OK’

How do I compare columns in Excel for matches?

Example 1. Compare two columns for matches or differences in the same row

To compare two columns in Excel row-by-row, write a usual IF formula that compares the first two cells.
The result may look similar to this:
=IF(EXACT(A2, B2), “Match”, “”)
=IF(AND(A2=B2, A2=C2), “Full match”, “”)

How do I find duplicates horizontally in Excel?

1. Copy the single row that you will find and count duplicates, and then right click a blank cell and select Transpose (T) in the Paste Options section to transpose row to column. See screenshot: Note: You can’t find out the Transpose (T) in the right-clicking menu in Excel 2007 directly.