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split screen of 2 worksheets so can scroll and look at both sheets at same time

Asked by william

Hi
I have 2 separate spreadsheet with the same format where i need to be able to split the screen so i can view both sheets then have the ability to scroll down the sheets at the same time basically comparing one or 2 columns on both sheets most of the data on the 2 sheets will be the same or i just need to compare 2 of the columns on each of the sheets.
Excel would open 1 x excel window then have both worksheets minimized / maximised within where as at the moment the 2 spreadsheets are opening in 2 separate calc environments ....
hope this makes sense any help would be great and appreciated

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Best Qwerty Maniac (qwertymaniac) said : 		#1

There's no way to do this, but you can copy one sheet into another and use the split screen method as described here:

http://www.codejacked.com/split-views-for-documentsspreadsheets/

(Previews shown there are for Microsoft Office but work on any other Office suite too, including OpenOffice)

Or more logically, you can use a comparator function between sheets/files to create a Match/Mismatch column. There's several formula for this purpose.

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william (wyoung-mutare) said : 		#2

thanks very much for the help