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    Sorting on duplicate values (Conditional Formatting)

    I need to match up accounts from a small data set to a much larger data set. To do this, I use duplicate values from the conditional formatting to highlight the matching accounts. Is there a way to sort based on these matching values so I can pull them out of the larger data set?

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    Re: Sorting on duplicate values (Conditional Formatting)

    you can use conditional formatting to highlight the duplicates, and then sort based off of cell colour.
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    Re: Sorting on duplicate values (Conditional Formatting)

    Hi, welcome to the forum

    To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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    Re: Sorting on duplicate values (Conditional Formatting)

    This worked great! Seems so simple now.

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