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Let's say we share a worksheet with other team members
and the
data here is updated. How do we keep track of the updates? Using a
named range and conditional formatting we can easily keep track of who
has changed what and also compare the data with the original data.
- The first step is to copy the data and paste it
another
worksheet in the same range. So if your data in one sheet was in the
range C3 to D8, then the copied data must be place in the same range.
- Now we select the data in cell C4 in the sheet 2 and
give
it an appropriate name like 'original'. The reference should be a
'relative' one as shown in the training video.
- Now we go back to our sheet1, select the same cell c4
and
apply a conditional formatting. Here we apply a formula like
'=C4>original' and '=C4 less than original' and apply different
formatting styles to check for the changes in different directions.
- Now we use the format painter to apply the
conditional
formatting on all the relevant cells. The formatting is not applied to
the headers.
- Now if the data is updated in sheet1 it takes the
applied
formatting and the changes can be tracked immediately
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