If you need to remove the highlighting we used for the unique values, it’s pretty simple. To remove the filter completely, go again to the Home tab, click on ‘Sort & Filter’ one more time and unselect the option ‘Filter’.Īnd that’s all it takes! The Filter option has been removed.Īnd before we wrap it up, there’s one more thing worth mentioning. To display all the values unsorted, click on ‘Clear Filter’ and the column will show all values again. You do the same if you need to filter out only the duplicates – simply use the option ‘Sort by Color’ again to have the duplicates displayed all together. The filter option now shows in the header of both columns and we can conveniently sort the data in a column based on the colour.įor example, we can display only the unique values in the first column. Select the whole area (header included), go to the Home tab, click on ‘Sort & Filter’ and choose ‘Filter’.
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How to Turn on the Filter to Help You Sort the ValuesĪs soon as the unique values have been highlighted, we can turn on the filter to help us sort the values, which might help in further data processing. Confirm, and let’s have a look at other useful tricks that can help you efficiently compare the column contents.
Let’s use this option and have the values highlighted in yellow. Of course, we can choose the colour we want to use to highlight the values. So, we want to highlight the values that are present only in one of the columns. Here in this window, we can choose whether we want to highlight duplicates – the values showing in the selected area twice, or we can choose the option ‘Unique’, which means that Excel will highlight the values that occur in both columns only once.Īnd this is exactly what we want because we can quickly find the differences between the columns in terms of the values they contain. Then we go to the Home tab, click on Conditional Formatting and hover over ‘Highlight Cell Rules’.įrom the options that appeared, we select ‘Duplicate Values’. To find differences between the contents of two columns in Excel, we need to select both columns first. 4 How to Remove to Highlighted Data How to Compare Two Columns in Excel to Find Differences
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