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Old 01-27-2010, 01:54 PM
BjornS BjornS is offline Windows Vista Office 2003
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Hi,
I have a suggestion of a formula way to solve this. The advantage is that other persons can better understand your worksheet. See attached example.

Short explanation (actually quite self-explaining if you look at the formulas):

To the left of each table, create o formula for a match key (last name+ first name). I have named the tables (Insert ... Define .. Name) "table1" and "table2", by marking the complete columns, not only until the last row filled with data, since there will be more data in the future.

The formulas in cell E and F does the whole check. If you don't want to see the new address, you can compress these formulas in E and F into one column. As an extra benefit, there is a check for new records with the help of the formula in column M.

I used conditional formatting to highlight changed / new records.

Kind regards
Bjorn
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