4/1/2023 0 Comments Beyond compare excel plugin![]() I still claim BC is easily the best tool for comparing Excel tools (and also files in general). I did (IMO a better) investigation on diff tools, together with my colleagues, and in different companies, for several years. ![]() So for 69 Euro I think it’s a bargain and I’m going to buy it to run it on my spreadsheets at the end of inputting data each month as a double check that everything I have changed is what I was expecting to change.Īs you see I’m not a spam and I do a LOT of diffing. ![]() You can also merge the values to the two spreadsheet but I wouldn’t recommend it as it only does values, not formula’s so I would be very careful with this feature. I would suggest when using this, to save your two workbooks as different names before using it. In my 30+ sheet workbook it only took under 5 minutes to run and then I had two spreadsheets fully highlighted with all the differences, AND a separate map with all the changes hyperlinked back to the source spreadsheed. I’m not yet 100% convinced that it finds EVERY change, and if you’ve inserted a row and changed something in the same region it doesn’t pick it up, but those are small issues that are outweighed by the excellent results it produces. When finished it shows a navigator bar to navigate through each change (handy for a small number of changes but no so handy for my 3000+ changes that it eventually found). The program removes all your cell hilights first but keeps all other formatting in place. On comparing one sheet it took just a few seconds then displays the differences hilighted in the colours you choose – different colours for inserted and deleted rows and columns, different values and even different formula’s (this could come in handy). I’m not sure why I discounted this one, it may be just that Synkronizer did 95% of what I wanted. It also shows the differences directly in the spreadsheet. I just tried a simple summary spreadsheet and it showed all the columns in the results window not lined up, so it was basically impossible to use.ĮxcelDiff and 4 Tops re-create the spreadsheet into a HTML report with hyperlinks back to the spreadsheet – useful but it doesn’t help to show the context of where the differences are and not having the underlying spreadsheet’s formatting is not helpful.Įxcel compare is similar to above but presents the differences in Excel, but still lacks the ability to see your whole spreadsheet in i’s original context with the differences shown.ĭiffEngineX has a great feature that allows you to insert rows and / or columns to make the 2 spreadsheets layouts the same. I quickly discounted Diff Doc – it had a great slick website but it was a text based comparison tool that meant it converted the spreadsheet to text first before comparing.
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