Compare two spreadsheets with Excel 2013's Inquire feature

If your are using the Excel 2013, then you can have access to the mentioned Inquire Feature that allows you to compare two workbooks to identify the differences and find the unique values . This is very easy to use and very powerful tool which can save lot of time.

First let's see how to activate this tool "Inquire" in Excel 2013.

1. Open the Excel sheet and Go to File>>Options

2. In Options, Select the "Add-Ins",

3. In the Manage Drop down menu, select the "COM Add-Ins" and click on Go.. Button

4. And then check the Tick mark on "Inquire" Add-In and Click OK button.

5.Then, you can see a new tab "Inquire" placed on your excel ribbon at the top right side as shown.

6. Now, the actual comparison of two workbooks comes into picture. Let's begin the process by opening the two workbooks. Then go to Inquire tab of the ribbon and click the comparison tool.

7. Select the two workbooks you want to compare as shown here.

8. After clicking the compare button, the excel analyses the two workbooks and generate a detailed analysis report highlighting the differences in the data, formulas, structure,formatting, and other several characteristics . You can even enable or disable the data you want to compare/highlight.
The below figure shows a sample output.

Thus, it saves a lot of time in comparing bigger excel workbooks, with heavy data inside.

A sample demonstration of the exercise is shown below.

Back to MS Excel>>

Comments

Primavera P6 Tutorial : Chapter 2.7 : User Defined Fields

Apart from the in-built fields available in primavera, you can create User-defined fields which enable you to customize fields and values and add them to the project database. For example, you can use them to track additional activity data such as ordered dates, delivery dates, revised budgets, purchase order / work order numbers, vendor names, etc. In this chapter, let us learn how to create User defined fields, how to work with them and how to work with indicators type of User defined fields. How to Create UDFs? For each custom user defined field you create, you can specify any of the following data formats for that field: Text, Start Date, Finish Date, Cost, Integer, Number, Text, and Indicator. To Define: Go to the Menu bar, Choose Enterprise, select User Defined Fields . Select the subject area to which you want to add a new field, then click Add . Double-click in the Title column and type a name for the User Defined Field. Double-click in the Da...

Exporting the Primavera data into excel with same color formatting.

In the earlier posts, we have already seen how to export the primavera schedule into the excel format and then do the modifications for further usage. Now, let us see how the schedule in excel looks similar to that of the schedule in the primavera. Here are the steps for the same: Step-1: Open the project in the primavera p6. Step-2: Now, the sample schedule in primavera looks like this as shown below Step-3: Now Press Ctrl+A to select all the rows and columns in the primavera schedule and C opy all the selected data Step-4: Now go to an excel sheet and right click and select "Paste" option to paste the data that has been copied from the primavera screen Step-5: Insert a user defined column "Level" for filtering purpose and apply filters to all the data. and then filter the Column "Activity name" by checking the "Blanks" -This is nothing but we are filtering all the WBS rows and excluding the activities. ...

How To Merge Two Separate Schedules Into One Master Schedule In Primavera

In this tutorial, let us learn how to Merge two separate schedules into One Master schedule in Primavera P6. In this example, I am considering two separate projects which are these two, One is master schedule and one is the subproject. First, let us open the subproject and export this schedule as a .XER file onto Desktop. and now let us start the exact process of merging two separate schedules. 1. As a first step, We need to open the project schedule into which we want to insert the other project as a sub-project. So, let us open the Master schedule here. 2. Go to Import, select XER format, Click Next 3. Select Project and click Next 4. Now select the Subproject .xer file from the Desktop and click Next 5. Under Import action, select the option as “Update Existing Project” and under import to section, select the Master schedule which is already open. Click Next and Finally Click on Finish. 6. Please note and make sure that your WBS and activity IDs should not confl...

Free Project Management Tools - Tutorials,Ebooks and Setups

Search This Blog