I am using VBA to autofilter a large list. (Just under 5,000 rows). Specifically, I am searching for a vendor in an expense log. When I run this code, it finds many vendors just fine, but not others.
Private Function testMcTesterson()
Dim icell As Range
Dim tempStr As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim w As Workbook
Dim expLog As Workbook
Dim vendorName As String
Set expLog = Workbooks("FY18 Manual Expense Log.xlsm")
Set w = ActiveWorkbook
For Each icell In Selection
vendorName = VendorNormalizer(icell.Value)
expLog.Activate
'Filter by vendor
Debug.Print "Vendor name is " & "'" & vendorName & "'"
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").AutoFilter field:=5, Criteria1:=vendorName
w.Activate
Next icell
End Function
I am calling another function I have built to normalize the names of the vendors. Several are not working (and several are), but the one I am wrestling with at the moment is Amazon. We have several transactions from Amazon, but none show.
Things I have checked so far:
Type the vendor's name into the autofilter. This produces results, so it is not the case that rows are excluded from the filter.
Check which columns are autofiltered. Only the vendor column, so the code is not applying the filter to the wrong column. (Also because it works for other vendors)
I was suspecting the problem may be with the output of my normalizing function, so I inserted my debug.print statement. Immediately before the filter is run, the console reads "Vendor name is 'Amazon'" No spaces before or after. I copied that directly from my immediate window, in case I just spelled something wrong.
I even checked typename(vendorName) and it returns string.
I'm sure the solution is right in front of my face, I just can't see it.
Help!
Edit: Here is the pertinent code for VendorNormalizer
Private Function VendorNormalizer(vendorName As String)
Select Case True
'Lots of other cases
Case InStr(1, vendorName, "Amazon", vbTextCompare) > 0
VendorNormalizer = "Amazon"
'Lots of other cases
End select
'If statements for exact matches
End function
The spreadsheet I am searching has all of these (and no other Amazon entries) in the column I am filtering. (copied and pasted)
AMAZON.COM
Amazon marketplace
Amazon.com
AMAZON MKTPLACE PMTS
Thanks to TotsieMae for having the breakthrough suggestion. Turns out wildcards are the answer.
Apparently the VBA range.autofilter command requires the criteria be an exact match, though typing into the autofilter does not. The solution is as simple as including wildcards in the text output of the normalizer.
To:
Select Case True
'Lots of other cases
Case InStr(1, vendorName, "Amazon", vbTextCompare) > 0
VendorNormalizer = "*Amazon*"
'Lots of other cases
End select
Thank you all for your help!
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My problem is that I want to filter out a specific value in different column of sheet, I tried record macro but the record feature seems to only support selecting specific values to keep instead of take out.
For example, if the column is filled with weekly data’s which is not known beforehand, I want to make sure a specific category is not in there. If a sheet was filled weekly data, with columns headings like Company, Product, Id,Date of manufacturing, manager name and all .
From the column for company i want to take out "ABC company" ,”FAST ltd”,”WIN Company” without having to know the name of other companies in list. Also I want to take out some products like “computer”,’phone”,” laptop”,” sim”. The record feature in macro only seems to say what to keep, not what to take away . I would have to select every company except the 3 companies which I want to filter out.
Please help me to get the code for VBA for filter out using multiple criteria.
I've tried this code
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$G$24").AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="<>ABC ccompany", _
Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria2:="<>WIN company", Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria3:="<>FAST ltd"
But I am getting "run time error 1004".I think Criteria method allows only two criteria at a time.
Any help would be great.
As an alternative to AutoFilter, I found this from #Gary's Student to hide or show entire rows on the sheet. Very simple and easily modifiable.
Sub ThreeWay()
Dim rng As Range, r As Range
Set rng = Range("A2:A25")
For Each r In rng
v = Left(r.Value, 1)
If v = "A" Or v = "D" Or v = "M" Then
r.EntireRow.Hidden = False
Else
r.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next r
End Sub
Solution hiding the lines themselves:
Option Explicit
Sub hide_values(Company As Variant, Product As Variant)
On Error GoTo hell
Dim myList As ListObject, myLine As Range, myValues As Variant
Set myList = Me.ListObjects(1) ' assuming you have just one table on your page
For Each myLine In myList.DataBodyRange.Rows
myValues = myLine.Value
myLine.EntireRow.Hidden = False
If myValues(1, 1) = Company Then
myLine.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Else If myValues(1, 2) = Product Then
myLine.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next myLine
End
hell:
Debug.Assert False
Resume
End Sub
Sub test_it()
ActiveSheet.hide_values "FAST ltd", "computer"
End Sub
This sollution is incomplete because it only excludes one Company and one product, but it can be extended by passing a set of strings for each and looping through these sets.
Solluction setting the filters
Sub hide_values(Company As Variant, Product As Variant)
On Error GoTo hell
Dim myList As ListObject, myLine As Range, myValues As Variant
Set myList = Me.ListObjects(1) ' assuming you have just one table on your page
myList.Range.AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="<>" & Company
' , Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria2:="<"&OtherCompany
myList.Range.AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="<>" & Product
hell:
Debug.Assert False
Resume
End Sub
Sub test_it()
ActiveSheet.hide_values "FAST ltd", "computer"
End Sub
This sollution is incomplete because it only excludes one Company and one product. Extending it to exluding two porducts and companies is evident (see the commented out code), but extending it further is requires completely different code to set the filters. (Let me know if you need me to elaborate that.)
The advantage of this option is: the user keeps control over the selection after the subroutine ran.
I'm trying to automate certain functions in an Excel file.
Here is my issue:
Table 1 contains a string is Column "Info", followed by two empty cells. For each of the rows in Table 1, I want to check if a value of Table 2, Column "Fruit" exists in column "Info" of Table 1. If so, I would like to fill in the "Color" and "Price" of Table 2 in the empty cells in Table 1.
For example, the second row contains the word "bananas", which means "Color" "Yellow" and "Price" "15" should be filled in the same columns in Table 1, row 2.
Somehow this issue seems so simple to me, but when I start to think of how to implement this, I get stuck. So unfortunately, I don't have any code available to fix. I just hope this issue isn't too vague.
I've also tried solving this issue using formulas, using MATCH and INDEX, but I couldn't get that to work either.
Here's a function that will return the row in the ListObject (Table) where the first matching word is found.
Public Function MatchFruit(ByVal sInfo As String, ByRef rFruit As Range) As Long
Dim vaSplit As Variant
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim rFound As Range
Dim sWhat As String
vaSplit = Split(sInfo, Space(1))
For i = LBound(vaSplit) To UBound(vaSplit)
'strip out non-alpha characters
sWhat = vbNullString
For j = 1 To Len(vaSplit(i))
If Asc(Mid(LCase(vaSplit(i)), j, 1)) >= 97 And Asc(Mid(LCase(vaSplit(i)), j, 1)) <= 122 Then
sWhat = sWhat & Mid(vaSplit(i), j, 1)
End If
Next j
'find the word in the range
Set rFound = Nothing
Set rFound = rFruit.Find(sWhat, , xlValues, xlWhole, , , False)
If Not rFound Is Nothing Then 'if it's found
'return the row in the ListObject
MatchFruit = rFound.Row - rFruit.ListObject.HeaderRowRange.Row
'stop looking
Exit For
End If
Next i
End Function
Assuming your first table is called tblData and your second table tblFruit, you would get the color using
=INDEX(tblFruit[Color],MatchFruit([#Info],tblFruit[Fruit]))
and the price similarly
=INDEX(tblFruit[Price],MatchFruit([#Info],tblFruit[Fruit]))
Long Explanation
The vaSplit assignment line uses the Split function to convert a string into an array based on a delimiter. Since your sample data was sentences, the normal delimiter is a space to split it into words. A string like
This is some line about apples.
is converted to an array
vaSplit(1) This
vaSplit(2) is
vaSplit(3) some
vaSplit(4) line
vaSplit(5) about
vaSplit(6) apples.
Next, the For loop goes through every element in the array to see if it can find it in the other list. The functions LBound and Ubound (lower bound and upper bound) are used because we can't be sure how many elements the array will have.
The first operation inside the loop is to get rid of any extraneous characters. For that, we create the variable sWhat and set it to nothing. Then we loop through all the characters in the element to see if any are outside of the range a...z. Basically, anything that's a letter gets appended to sWhat and anything that's not (a number, a space, a period) doesn't. In the end sWhat is the same as the current element with all non-alpha characters stripped out. In this example, we'd never match apples. because of the period, so it's stripped away.
Once we have a good sWhat, we now use the Find method to see if that word exists in the rFruit range. If it does, then rFound will not be Nothing and we move ahead.
Note that if it doesn't find the word in the range, then rFound will be Nothing and the function will return zero.
If the word is found, the function returns the row it was found on less the row where the ListObject starts. That way the function returns what row it is withing the data of the ListObject not on the worksheet. This is useful when incorporating into an INDEX formula. To make a formula return something, you assign that something to the formula's name.
Finally, the Exit For line simply stops looking through the array once a match was found. If you have more than one match in your data, it will only return the first one.
Troubleshooting
The most likely error that you'll find is that the function will return zero when you expect it to return a row number. That most likely means it did not find any words in the list.
If you're certain that both lists contain a matching word, here's how you troubleshoot it: After the Set rFound = line put a Debug.Print statement.
Set rFound = rFruit.Find(sWhat, , xlValues, xlWhole, , , False)
Debug.Print "." & sWhat & "."
If Not rFound Is Nothing Then 'if it's found
That will print sWhat to the Immediate Window (Ctrl+G in the VBE to see the Immediate Window). The periods around the word are so you can see any non-printable characters (like spaces). If you try to match .pears . with pears it won't match because the first one has a space at the end - and you can see that because we stuck periods before and after.
If spaces are going to be a problem, you can use the Trim$() function on sWhat to get rid of them first.
With that Debug.Print statement, you might see results like
.paers.
in which case would recognize that you have a typo.
To Dick and other people who may be interested. Like I mentioned in my last comment on the answer provided by #Dick-Kusleika, his answer didn't fully cover my initial question. Even though it gave me great insight and it did the job of filling the empty cells with the appropriate data, I was really looking for something that would do it automatically, without me having to copy-paste any formulas. So I spent some more time trying to figure it out, getting info from the internet and sparring with a colleague who shares my interest in this. And eventually I managed to get it working! (hurray!!)
Below is my solution. As I'm still a beginner, I probably did a few things that could have been done better or cleaner. So I'm really interested in your opinion about this and would love to hear any remarks or tips.
Sub check_fruit()
Dim ws As Excel.Worksheet
Dim lo_Data As Excel.ListObject
Dim lo_Fruit As Excel.ListObject
Dim lr_Data As Excel.ListRow
Dim lr_Fruit As Excel.ListRow
Dim d_Info As Variant
Dim f_Fruit As Variant
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Exercise")
Set lo_Data = ws.ListObjects("tblData")
Set lo_Fruit = ws.ListObjects("tblFruit")
For Each lr_Data In lo_Data.ListRows
'check if field "Color" is empty in tblData'
If IsEmpty(Intersect(lr_Data.Range, lo_Data.ListColumns("Color").Range).Value) Then
d_Info = Intersect(lr_Data.Range, lo_Data.ListColumns("Info").Range).Value
For Each lr_Fruit In lo_Fruit.ListRows
f_Fruit = Intersect(lr_Fruit.Range, lo_Fruit.ListColumns("Fruit").Range).Value
'check for each row in tblFruit if value for field "Fruit" exists in field "Info" of tblData'
If InStr(1, d_Info, f_Fruit, vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
Intersect(lr_Data.Range, lo_Data.ListColumns("Color").Range).Value = Intersect(lr_Fruit.Range, lo_Fruit.ListColumns("Color").Range).Value
Intersect(lr_Data.Range, lo_Data.ListColumns("Price").Range).Value = Intersect(lr_Fruit.Range, lo_Fruit.ListColumns("Price").Range).Value
End If
Next lr_Fruit
End If
Next lr_Data
End Sub
I apologize if there is already the same question asked elsewhere with an answer however I have been unable to find it so here I go.
I will also mention that I am a VBA beginner, mostly playing around with codes obtained from other people to get what I want.
I currently have data in Columns A-D, with the information in column C being the important column. Everything else should be ignored.
I have a line of text in cell C1 of sheet1. It is 25 characters long and resembles the following:
4760-000004598700000000000
I have over ~970,000 rows of data and need to pull out the information found within each of these cells into two different cells in another sheet.
I cannot simply use a formula due to the number of records (excel crashes when I try).
If using the mid function for C1, I would enter something like (C1,2,3) and (C1,5,11). (except it would be for each cell in column C)
The leading zeroes between the + or - and the beginning of the first non-zero value are of no consequence but I can fix that part on my own if need be.
Ideally the information would be pulled into an existing sheet that I have prepared, in the A and B columns. (IE:sheet2)
For example, using the text provided above, the sheet would look like:
A|B
760|-0000045987 or -45987
I have looked into array, split and mid codes but I had troubles adapting them to my situation with my limited knowledge of VBA. I am sure there is a way to do this and I would appreciate any help to come up with a solution.
Thank you in advance for your help and please let me know if you need any additional information.
It sounds like what you're after could be achieved by the Text to Columns tool. I'm not sure whether you're trying to include this as a step in an existing macro, or if this is all you want the macro to do, so I'll give you both answers.
If you're just looking to split the text at a specified point, you can use the Text to Columns tool. Highlight the cells you want to modify, then go to the Data tab and select "Text to Columns" from the "Data Tools" group.
In the Text to Columns wizard, select the "Fixed Width" radio button and click Next. On step 2, click in the data preview to add breaks where you want the data to be split - so, in the example you gave above, click between "760" and "-". Click Next again.
On step 3, you can choose the format of each column that will result from the operation. This is useful with the leading zeroes you mentioned - you can set each column to "Text". When you're ready, click Finish, and the data will be split.
You can do the same thing with VBA using a fairly simple bit of code, which can be standalone or integrated into a larger macro.
Sub RunTextToColumns()
Dim rngAll As Range
Set rngAll = Range("A1", "A970000")
rngAll.TextToColumns _
DataType:=xlFixedWidth, _
FieldInfo:=Array(Array(0, 2), Array(3, 2))
With Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A1", "A970000")
.Value = Range("A1", "A970000").Value
.Offset(0, 1).Value = Range("B1", "B970000").Value
End With
End Sub
This takes around a second to run, including the split and copying the data. Of course, the hard-coded references to ranges and worksheets are bad practice, and should be replaced with either variables or constants, but I left it this way for the sake of clarity.
How about this:
Sub GetNumbers()
Dim Cel As Range, Rng As Range, sCode As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Set Rng = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C1:C" & Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C1048576").End(xlUp).Row)
For Each Cel In Rng
Sheets("Sheet2").Cells(Cel.Row, 1).Value = Mid(Cel.Value, 2, 3)
sCode = Mid(Cel.Value, 5, 11)
'Internale loop to get rid of the Zeros, reducing one-by-one
Do Until Mid(sCode, 2, 1) <> "0" And Mid(sCode, 2, 1) <> 0
sCode = Left(sCode, 1) & Right(sCode, Len(sCode) - 2)
Loop
Sheets("Sheet2").Cells(Cel.Row, 2).Value = sCode
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
I think there's an array formula thing that would do this, but I prefer the brute force approach. There are two ways to fill in the fields, with a procedure or with a function. I've done both, to illustrate them for you. As well, I've purposely used a number of ways of referencing the cells and of separating the text, to illustrate the various ways of achieving your goal.
Sub SetFields()
Dim rowcounter As Long, lastrow As Long
lastrow = ActiveSheet.Cells(Rows.Count, 3).End(xlUp).Row 'get the last row in column "C"
For rowcounter = 1 To lastrow 'for each row in the range of values
'put the left part in column "D"
ActiveSheet.Range("D" & rowcounter) = FieldSplitter(ActiveSheet.Cells(rowcounter, 3).Text, True)
'and the right part in the column two over from colum "C"
ActiveSheet.Cells(rowcounter, 3).Offset(0, 2) = FieldSplitter(ActiveSheet.Cells(rowcounter, 3).Text, False)
Next rowcounter
End Sub
Function FieldSplitter(FieldText As String, boolLeft As Boolean) As String
If boolLeft Then
FieldSplitter = Mid(FieldText, 2, 3) 'one way of getting text from a string
Else
FieldSplitter = Left(Right(FieldText, 16), 5) ' another way
End If
'Another useful function is Split, as in myString = Split (fieldtext, "-")(0) This would return "4760"
End Function
I'm currently trying to work with complex tables in Microsoft Word. My problem is, those tables have fused cells and rows, and I'm not sure of how many rows or columns i'll have.
Here is a (stupid) example how the kind of tables i'll have
I get my table thanks to a bookmark, and then proceed to stock the table in a Dim for easier access
Sub SetTable()
Dim tb as Table
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="MyTable"
Selection.MoveDown
Set tb = Selection.Tables(1)
End Sub
Now, I'd use that table to write in several tables of a database.
Let's say, I have a table "Destinations", a table "Ways" and a table "Time"
I'm kinda blocked there.
With fused rows and columns, i cannot access a whole column or row. But as i don't know how many rows and columns i have (i could have, for example, 5 different ways for "Destination 1", or several distances in "Way 1")
I am a little lost on how i should try to work.
Cell(x,y).Row doesn't work because several rows are fused, and it is the same with Column, so we get errors extremely easily
I was thinking of putting tables in cells that might get an unknown number of rows/columns, a bit like this
The Problem with this method is that the person that'll write in the document won't be me. Meaning, if he has to create a table each time there is a new line/column that requires it, chance is that it'll become a problem quickly.
(I haven't found yet a method to put something in a given cell of a table at the creation of a new line, I'm also open on that point)
I was wondering if there are best practices to apply in this kind of case, and I am looking for advices too.
If you already had to treat something similar to this, how did you do?
Thanks in advance for your answers
Cordially,
Zawarudio
Note : The example of table here is insanely stupid, and even I don't even know what it's talking about. It was just to put informations in the tables, and have absolutely no link with what I'm trying to do.
If you were lost by the distances/times/whatever, sorry about that
I had some vacations so I didn't work on that question before now.
I just found a way that I felt was relevant, so I come here to share my answer
Note that I only worked on an unknown number of merged rows at the moment, so this answer will only be about that, though I believe it is the same. Also note that I'm on Word 2010. I don't know if rows/column behavior changed in 2013 or will change in the future. (well, obviously)
The big problem was that a merged row cell will only have a value of the first row of the merged row. Let's take a simple example
This table has 2 rows and 2 columns. We fused the rows of the 1st column.
table.Rows.Count will return 2, so will table.Columns.count.
table.cell(1,1).Range.text will return the content of the merged rows.
We would like table.cell(2,1).Range.text to return the value of the merged row, but VBA tells us here that this value doesn't exist.
There is no problem with table.cell(1,2).Range.text and table.cell(2,2).Range.text.
With values, that means that our table with merged rows is pretty equals to that
Where each empty cell would generate an error 5941.
How to resolve the problem?
Sub ReadAllRows()
Dim NbRows As Integer
Dim NbColumns As Integer
Dim i, j As Integer
Dim SplitStr() As String
Dim col1 as String
Dim col2 as String
Dim col3 as String
Dim col4 as String
'note : my table here is a public value that i get thanks to bookmarks
NbRows = table.Rows.count
NbColumns = table.Columns.count
For i = 3 To NbRows
'We put each value of each columns in a dim
'We do that to remember previously entered row value if the application encounters an error
'Because of merged rows, some cells on each row will not exist and return an error
'When the application encounters an error, it just proceeds to next column
'As previous existing value of this column was stocked in a Dim, we can get the full row at the end of the column loop
For j = 1 To NbColumns
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
SplitStr = Split(table.Cell(i, j).Range.Text, Chr(13))
Select Case j
Case 1:
col1 = SplitStr(0)
Case 2:
col2 = SplitStr(0)
Case 3:
col3 = SplitStr(0)
Case 4:
col4 = SplitStr(0)
'ect...
End Select
NextRow:
Next j
'We have here all the values of the line
MsgBox "col1: " & col1 & Chr(10) & _
"col2: " & col2 & Chr(10) & _
"col3: " & col3 & Chr(10) & _
"col4: " & col4 & Chr(10)
Next i
'This Error handler will skip the whole Select Case and thus will proceed towards next cell
ErrorHandler:
If Err.Number = 5941 Then
Err.Clear
Resume NextRow
End If
End Sub
That way, when a cell doesn't exist, that mean the row if merged. Meaning we want the last known value of the row. Since we skip the whole select when row is unknown, the value of the Dim isn't changed while we do get right the value of not merged rows.
This isn't rocket science, but I first began with a simple On Error Resume Next, and with that, non-existing rows simply had the value of last existing row, so I also had to work on a function that would try to get the good value for each cell of each row...
Note that I did things the ugly way here, but you can use a one dimensionnal arrays to stock an entire row the way Word is supposed to understand it, or you can even get a two dimensionnal array stocking your whole table in it a way Word understands
Well, I hope it helps someone, someday!
Cordially,
Zawarudio
I think there must be an existing Q/A about this but I didn't find it using a quick search, so for now...
One thing you can do is iterate through the cells of the range of the table. Like this:
Sub iterTable()
Dim r As Range
Set r = ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Range
For i = 1 To r.Cells.Count
Debug.Print r.Cells(i).RowIndex, r.Cells(i).ColumnIndex, r.Cells(i).Range.Text
Next
End Sub
As long as you have predefined texts that will allow you to detect your "Destination" groups, that should be enough for you to make progress...
So i'm making a macro to do a bunch of things. one thing is find duplicates of cells in sheet1 from sheet2. given columnA in sheet 1, do any values in columnB on sheet2 match any of the values in columna sheet1.
I know theres a remove duplicates, but I just want to mark them, not remove.
I was thinking something with the filtering. I know when you filter you can select multiple criteria, so if u have a column with 20 different values in it, you can select 5 values in the filter and it will show rows with those 5 values for the particular column. So i recorded a macro of that, and checked out the code, and I see for that it uses a string array, where each value to search for is in a string array. Is there any way to just specify an entire column and add every value to the string array?
thanks in advance
Here are three different ways to load items into an array. The first method is much faster but simply stores everything in the column. You have to be careful with this though because it creates a multidimensional array which isn't something that can be passed to AutoFilter.
Method 1:
Sub LoadArray()
Dim strArray As Variant
Dim TotalRows As Long
TotalRows = Rows(Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
strArray = Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(TotalRows, 1)).Value
MsgBox "Loaded " & UBound(strArray) & " items!"
End Sub
Method 2:
Sub LoadArray2()
Dim strArray() As String
Dim TotalRows As Long
Dim i As Long
TotalRows = Rows(Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
ReDim strArray(1 To TotalRows)
For i = 1 To TotalRows
strArray(i) = Cells(i, 1).Value
Next
MsgBox "Loaded " & UBound(strArray) & " items!"
End Sub
if you know the values ahead of time and just want to list them in a variable you can assign a variant using Array()
Sub LoadArray3()
Dim strArray As Variant
strArray = Array("Value1", "Value2", "Value3", "Value4")
MsgBox "Loaded " & UBound(strArray) + 1 & " items!"
End Sub
not sure if anyone else will have this problem or not so I figured I'd post the answer I found. I like the solution of the array posted by #Ripster (and thanks for that, it almost worked) but it won't really work in this case. What I'm working with is a large sheet of data with 1 ID column, and I want to check other sheets to see if there are duplicates in that sheet (using ID column). not delete though, just mark so I can check them out. With potentially upwards of 50K rows looping through each row would take a LONG time.
So, what I figured out I can do is copy the ID column from the other sheet into the main sheet, and use the conditional formatting option to mark duplicates in some colour. (It'll mark the rows in both columns) and then I can filter the column by colour to show me only the colour I used to mark the duplicates. If I programmatically add a column to the sheet I'm checking with the row numbers, I can even include that column in the main sheet so when I filter for colour I can see which rows they were in their sheet.
After doing that I can record and adapt a macro to do this automatically for my less programming inclined co-workers
Thanks much all!
Edit - Added Code
After selecting the columns to compare, here is the code to mark the duplicates with red text and no fill:
Selection.FormatConditions.AddUniqueValues
Selection.FormatConditions(Selection.FormatConditions.Count).SetFirstPriority
Selection.FormatConditions(1).DupeUnique = xlDuplicate
With Selection.FormatConditions(1).Font
.Color = -16383844
.TintAndShade = 0
End With
Selection.FormatConditions(1).StopIfTrue = False
and then, since both columns have the duplicates marked you select the one that you actually want to examine and heres the code to filter:
`Selection.AutoFilter
ActiveSheet.Range("$C$1:$C$12").AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:=RGB(156, 0 _
, 6), Operator:=xlFilterFontColor`
(in my test i used column c as the one to filter, that can be programmatically with a cells() reference or a range(cells(), cells()) sort of reference
I wish everyone the best of luck in their future endevors! thanks again to #ripster