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Compare Excel sheets and highlight differences

	Compare cell values
	Compare formulas
	Compare cell formatting (fill color, text color, font, etc.)
	Compare defined names
	Find unique and matching (duplicate) rows
	Highlight differences with color
	and more ...

Merge multiple Excel files into one

Combine data from multiple Excel files into one file. Merge Excel files in a batch mode. More ...

Merge several Excel sheets into one

Join all sheets in excel file into one and exclude duplicate records. More ...

Extremely fast on the large Excel files

Compare 100Mb files with millions of rows in several seconds

Compare Excel files by primary key

	Compare sheets as General Worksheets
	Compare sheets as Database Tables (more ...)
	Compare sheets cell-by-cell
	Compare sheets with Outlined structure

2 and 3-way comparison for Excel files

Compare excel worksheets with common base version, integrate xlCompare into SVN\GIT environment. More ...

Create difference report

Get the detailed report for the compared files, save it to XLSX\PDF\HTML formats

Complete comparison for VB projects

	Compare code in visual basic modules. More ...
	Compare controls on forms in the vb project. More ...

Compare Excel files in the command line mode

Use xlCompare as an External Diff Viewer for XLSX\XLSM\XLS and CSV files. Compare and merge Excel files in a batch mode.

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With a team consists of industry experts we developed a powerful and reliable best excel comparison tool to bring your productivity to the highest level.

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Fundamental tool

As a professional Excel/VBA developer, XLCompare has become a fundamental tool in my development process. It works on even the most code-heavy and complex of workbooks, and is something I just couldn't do without.

Peter Hamilton

XY Spreadsheet Solutions

Effectively check excel files for differences

What differs xlCompare from other excel file compare tools?

Our purpose is to give you best excel comparison tool to save your working time and increase productivity to the highest level

Simplicity

Simplicity reveals the beauty of xlCompare. Our purpose is not only to compare or merge Excel sheets or files, but to save your working time and increase your productivity.

xlCompare works in the following way:

Drop your files into xlCompare
Get the clear results

We've minimized number of settings and options you should use to get the results by using several AI algorithms.

You should not spend you time to select various comparison settings to get the results.

The most complete comparison

xlCompare checks all data in the workbook for differences. This Excel diff tool processes cell values, formulas, formatting options, defined names, tables, Visual Basic Macros and Form Controls. Formulas are compared on the function level. You are getting comprehensive diff report with all modifications highlighted with color.

3-Way worksheet comparison

xlCompare is the only Excel Diff Tool on the market that offers 3-way comparison for Excel files (XLS\XLSX\XLSM\...). Use xlCompare to resolve merge conflicts between different versions of the same Excel file. This is a must have feature for excel diff and merge tools, used in source code control systems. 3-way compare and merge is available in the command line mode also.

Turn worksheet into database

xlCompare gives you set of commands to define and edit Primary Keys on your worksheets in the easy and native way. With this diff tool you extract new records from your database, filter updated and matching rows, and more ... Join few excel sheets into one in a few clicks.

Command line mode

Use xlCompare for SVN\GIT integration. If you are working in the multi-user environment and have SVN\GIT system installed - xlCompare is a perfect excel diff viewer and merge tool for XLS\XLSX\XLSM\XLA\XLAM files. Easy integration allows to use it with most popular source code control systems.

Merge cells and entire rows in one click

xlCompare is more than just an Excel file compare tool. It gives you commands to merge inserted rows and modified cells between worksheets in one click. Easy to use merge commands copy all new rows and edited cells from one worksheet to another in just a second. Worksheet consolidation was never being so easy. Just in one click you can combine several Excel files into one.

Perfect Visual Representation

In the Extended View mode xlCompare shows original and modified value in one place. xlCompare shows you difference between two modified cells with trending icon, that indicates increase or decrease of the value. In the modified formulas we highlight edited characters. xlCompare puts your focus directly to the changed data.

Extremely fast performance

xlCompare is optimized to work with very large excel files. It opens files faster than Microsoft Excel and compares worksheets with 1 million of records in a second. Set of algorithms, adopted for specific data structures, gives you accurate comparison results in a moment.

Rich set of options

xlCompare has a lot of options you can use to do your work much faster. Comparison accuracy, ignore specific characters, exclude hidden rows and columns, exclude calculated values, ... Application has long list of features you can find here: xlCompare Features

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Very nice your software, the 3 ways blowed my mind out, I did a 2h job in 10 minutes (I looked 5 sec at my screen without moving because I was so surprised).

Olivier Regout

xlCompare gives you ability to perform excel worksheet comparison quickly and effectively. Armed with this tool you can focus on the results without waiting for them. If you value your time, you will make the choice!

Are you looking for Best Excel Comparison Tool?

How to compare Excel file comparison tools on the market and choose the best one

Google gives you 5 or more xlcomparators if you search for Excel comparison tool. Which one is the best Excel compare tool?

The Most Complete Features List

On the Features page we've published a summary of the features collected from excel comparison tool reviews. xlCompare covers all of them.

Biggest Set Of Options

xlCompare has more options than every other tool on the market. This gives you maximum flexibility in checking your worksheets for differences.

Best Performance

xlCompare is based on our Spreadsheet Core engine, that opens Excel workbooks faster than Excel application. By working with core objects and state-of-the-art algorithms we give you best performing tool on the market.

Continuous Development

This is important. We continuously improve the software and publish updates for xlCompare. Look into History of Changes to see the list of regular updates.

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Why do you need xlCompare?

Save your time

You can compare excel worksheets using conditional formatting, vba macros and other methods. But every of these methods takes your working time. xlCompare does this job for you at a reasonable price.

Precise results

Our specialty is Excel worksheet comparison. If you give every job to professionals - you receive best results. xlCompare is a solution you need! Try it and you will be fully satisfied.

Increase productivity

Armed with xlCompare you move your professional efficiency to the highest level. Just focus on the important primary tasks of your business.

Errors in spreadsheet are expensive

Every year companies lose millions of dollars due to errors in their data. Are you sure you want to increase this statistic?

Our primary goal is to give you best and the most powerful Excel file comparison tool

If you order xlCompare Professional license and find other tool that works better than xlCompare - we'll give you a refund of your license!

How to compare two Excel sheets for differences in values

Get more information about comparison process. How we compare excel files for differences, which types of excel files are processed and which operations xlCompare performs to deliver you best comparison results. How to consolidate and update excel files and what do you need for this. Read about this process in detail. Compare 2 excel columns for differences and get the outlined report with explanation for the every found difference. More information is in the article below.

Compare two excel sheets and highlight differences

Compare two worksheets for differences

Spreadsheets are widely involved into all kinds of business processes. Excel File (workbook) is very suitable form to store and interchange datasets...

After presenting you list of the differences, we give you handy way to merge changes found in your workbooks. Our tool completely covers all spreadsheet comparison and merging tasks...

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Compare Two Excel Files Online

Compare and Merge CSV\Text Files

Here we discuss online excel file comparators

Look into this article if you are working with tables saved in a form of text (CSV\TXT) files

Is it possible to compare excel files online? Yes, sure. There is nothing impossible, but if you have a large excel worksheets you would like to compare or if excel file is confidential - this job is not for online comparators. We describe situation with desktop mode and online spreadsheet comparison in the page below:

Some if a applications give you table data in a form of the text file, where values are delimited with comma, space, tab or any other characters. This is various types of application logs, exported transactions, financial statements and other data. It can't be procced by a usual text comparator. We offer you xlCompare as a text file comparison tool for table type data. Article below describes options you can use to open and compare text files, delimited with specific character, in the xlCompare:

COMPARE 2 EXCEL FILES ONLINE

COMPARE TEXT AND CSV FILES

Best way to Compare 2 Excel Files

Youtube: Spreadsheet Compare

Probably Excel File Compare Tool is not an ultimate solution for Excel worksheet comparison? We've described various methods you can use to compare Excel sheets in the article below:

We've created a short video to show you how to open excel files and compare worksheets for differences. In addition in this video we discuss Primary Keys and how to setup them on the worksheet columns and rows.

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How Excel File Compare Works

There are some reviews on the web, which compares excel file comparison utilities and their functions. In the page below we describe typical reviews and give you our opinion about this ratings.

See how xlCompare works on the real examples. Visit this page to find detailed explanation of solving various tasks with xlCompare and how to do XLSX compare.

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Find duplicates in two Excel sheets

View Excel files side-by-side

Term duplicates is applicable to the tables with database structure. It means records which are the same by specific criteria. You can use different criteria to define which records you treat as "identical".

Why using side by side layout? Side by side representation is the most suitable representation for the comparison results. This feature is widely used by many xlcomparators.

FIND DUPLICATES IN TWO EXCEL SHEETS

COMPARE EXCEL FILES SIDE-BY-SIDE

Compare XLSX Files

Excel Spreadsheet Compare Tool

If you are working with XLSX files, xlCompare is a tool you need to compare and merge XLSX files into one. This is fast feature rich xl comparator.

Spreadsheets a widely used by Excel users, so spreadsheet comparison and merging work is a part of regular office work. xlCompare will greately help you with this.

Compare data in two Excel sheets

xlCompare detects changes in cell value, formula, fill, font and other formatting options and report it to you by highlighting this cell with color

Changed Values

If you've changed cells value, or it was changed after recalculation - it will be highlighted by xlCompare.

Changed Formulas

If you've changed cells value, or it was changed after recalculation - it will be highlighted by xlCompare.

Changed Formatting

xlCompare detects changes in the border, background fill, text color and font options. All cell formatting options are compared.

How to match data in Excel from 2 worksheets

Rows and Columns are compared with corresponding ones from another worksheet. Inserted and Deleted items are marked with color and added to the comparison report.

Virtually Aligned Rows

Added and Deleted Rows(Columns) are virtually inserted into another workbook to make native representation of the comparison results. Every pair of the corresponding rows are on the same places.

Merge Unique Rows

With aligned rows you see where merged unique rows will be inserted. Select range of the rows you want to insert and move them in one click on the plus icon.

Bulk Merge

Merge all changes in single click. Get your workbooks synchronized in a seconds.

Combine Several Excel Sheets into One

Compare cells on 2 or more Excel worksheets and combine them into single sheet with Merge and Bulk Merge commands.

Merge Cells

Select range of cells you want to merge and use Merge command. All values in the corresponding sheet will be updated in one click.

Merge Unique Rows

Select rows or columns you would like to merge and press PLUS icon to add them to other worksheet. You get only records you need!

One Click Merge

Merge button combines spreadsheets in a without selecting differences one by one. One mouse click and few seconds - your worksheets are combined into one.

Display Formatted Difference Report

xlCompare displays updated cell values and formulas on the worksheet. This is the most native representation of the changes.

Display Difference

Display Difference option gives you ability to see updated value and difference.

Focus on Changes

Sometimes updated value is not so important as difference between values. You get exactly what you need.

Unique Feature

This feature is possible only in the xlCompare. It is not possible in the software based on the Excel application.

Save Color Coded Comparison Report

After you compare two files in excel, you get Comparison Report for your worksheets and save it to the PDF format with extended formatting options.

Save as PDF

Ideal for presentations. Save color formatted cells with their corresponding values or differences.

Save as XLSX

Save Comparison Summary for future use, or to send it to co-worker. You compare two XLSX files with xlCompare and save outlined difference report on disk.

Save as HTML

Use all power of the HTML language to create presentation for compared data.

Visualized Difference Representation

When Comparison Report is active - differences are synchronized with worksheet contents.

xlCompare:Scrollbars with Difference Map

Scrollbar Marks

Changed Cells and Unique Rows are reflected on the scrollbars with colors marks.

Worksheet Tabs

Count of differences on the every worksheet is added to sheet name as suffix.

Hide Equal Sheets

Equal and excluded from comparison sheets are hidden from the Comparison Report.

Highlight and Remove Duplicates in Excel Tables

Number of commands, you can use to Filter, Highlight and Remove Duplicate Records.

Highlight Duplicates

Highlight equal (duplicate) rows (keys) with color.

Filter Duplicates

Display only duplicate rows. Unique rows are hidden.

Remove Duplicates

Delete duplicate rows on the worksheet.

Filter Comparison Results

After you have comparison results, you can filter them to print\save or copy to other application.

Only Unique Rows

Leave only unique rows on screen.

Only Equal Rows

Leave only rows without modification.

Changed and Equal Rows

Hide unique rows and display only changed and equal ones.

Merge Excel files into one

One click mass operations are essential part of the software, designed to save time and increase productivity.

If you are working with a big datasets:

Database lists
Price lists
Accounting statements
LOG files
CSV files

You needs in quick and powerful merge commands which allows to manipulate whole worksheets.
xlCompare gives you Bulk Merge Operations - you can resolve all conflicts found by comparison in single click. This greately increases your productivity if you are working with large amount of data.

By choosing xlCompare as your tool to merge excel files, you can solve following tasks:

Merge Excel files into one
Merge Excel sheets in one file
Combine multiple Excel files into one file
Merge Excel sheets from command line
Merge Excel files in the batch mode

Merge MINE into THEIR

Reflect all changes made in MINE file in the THEIR's one.

Merge THEIR into MINE

Copy all changes from THEIR worksheet into MINE.

Undo Merge

Restore original values if you've made a mistake in merge.

Filter data you want to compare

Reduce comparison noise by selecting cell and formatting options included into comparison. Define comparison strategy which is most suitable for the data you have

Exclude Hidden Rows

Hide rows or columns and this data will be excluded from comparison.

Calculated Values

If you are not interested in the calculated cells - exclude them and compare only formulas.

Ignore Formatting

Very often cell formatting produce comparison noise. You can ignore it.

Compare Visual Basic Modules, Forms and Controls

Detailed comparison of the contents of VB Projects in your workbooks. Compare changes in the Class and Code Modules and Form Controls.

A must have tool for VBA developers!

Modified Code

xlCompare finds changes in the VBA Modules and displays them with color formatting.

Changed Form Controls

If you've modified form control - it will be detected and displayed by xlCompare.

Merge Projects

Fast and Easy to use commands to merge changes found in the VBA Code and Form Controls. Resolve conflicted modifications just in a few clicks!

From the fist looks VBA projects are text files, and can be compared like them. Yes, sure you can use this method. But we are using function level comparison method. Changes are detected on the function level. This gives better and accurate results. xlCompare gives you a powerful tool which can do all you need for Visual Basic code comparison and merging.

xlCompare is an ultimate spreadsheet comparator utility for a VBA developers and programmers who work in the team environment.

Compare and Merge VBA Forms

Compare and Merge VB Forms and Controls in a visual, native form. Just in a few clicks you get all changes applied to specific form.

Merge Forms

If you have new VBA Form in one book, xlCompare will move it to other file.

Merge Controls

Your co-worked added new control - one click and it is added to your version.

Merge Properties

You've changed control background color on control - xlCompare will merge it into common version.

xlCompare has own Visual Basic Form editor.

You see all controls on the Form including hidden ones.

This gives ability to display contents of the Form in it's native way. You see form exactly as it looks in Excel application. All form controls are combined into hierarchical tree structure - you can see it in the top-left pane of the editor. Properties of the selected control (Name, Font, Colors, Tab Index, Size and Position, ...) are below tree control in the list.

xlCompare is the most complete comparison utility for Visual Basic Projects

xlCompare processes not only Code Modules in the VB Project, but the Form objects also. It detects:

New and Removed Code Modules
New and Removed Class Modules
New and Removed Form Objects
New and Removed Controls on the Forms
New and Removed properties on the Forms

Diff Viewer for Version Control Applications

2 and 3-Way Comparison options with set of command line options allows to integrate xlCompare into Source Control System as Diff Viewer and Merge Tool.

Compare Files with Common Base Version

Use 3-Way comparison mode to compare changes made by you and your co-worker in the same version of workbook.

Resolve Merge Conflicts

One of the most complex version control tasks with Excel Workbooks - is to resolve conflicts between different versions of the same workbook. xlCompare compares 3 versions of Excel workbook - YOUR, BASE and THEIR and gives you comprehensive report of the changes made, with ability to merge changes and resolve conflicts.

External Difference Viewer for SVN\GIT Tools

We offer rich set of the command line options, which cover requirements of the SVN\GIT Applications.

How to integrate xlCompare into SVN and GIT Environment

Resolve conflicts between different versions of same workbook

When working in the multi-user environment conflicted changes are often happen. Few seconds and you resolve them with xlCompare.

Visual Representation

All differences are marked with colors exactly in the workbook. Conflicts has red color to be more highlighted then other diffs.

Synchronized Rows

Inserted\Deleted rows are virtually inserted into same place in the corresponding workbook. This gives native look for the modified worksheets.

In-place Tooltip Report

Put cursor over the colored cell to get detailed report about the changes made.

Typical users cases for Excel File comparison

Here you find a solution for various spreadsheet comparison tasks you may encounter

Case #1 (How to compare two Excel sheets for duplicates)

I need a excel diff tool that will compare two large excel sheets for differences (about 330k records vs 370k records) and put results into other worksheet. It should contain only rows in the larger file that are not in the smaller file, based on the selected field.

The Solution:

From your description we see that you need to get the difference between two datasets. Difference is a records from one sheet which are not present on the another worksheet. xlCompare has a command developed for this operation, so you can get the results just in a few clicks.

We would like to note, that 300k-500k is not a big dataset for xlCompare. We are working with 1m+ worksheets (more than one million of rows).

Please, do the following:

Drop bigger file into Left Panel (FILE1)
Drop smaller file into Right Panel (FILE2)
After this you see both worksheets opened one versus one
Press Compare button on the Home tab.
It shows you the Comparison Wizard. If your excel workbooks contain several sheets - make sure that sheets are selected by pairs properly. In this wizard you can modify the selection. But usually you can just complete the Wizard immediately without any additional actions.
Now you have color coded comparison report with highlighted unique rows and changed cells.
Use the Bulk Merge command below the report. This command opens Merge Wizard where you need to select desired operation you would like to perform with your datasets.
Choose Create Difference of Two Tables on the Left Sheet. Thats All! After you run this command in a few seconds you get records from the bigger sheet on the left.

Now you can work with the output dataset. As you've stated in the description - you need a third worksheet with output records. So, please use the Save As command to save a copy of the output worksheet, without modifying your bigger file.

Conclusion: Just in 6 clicks and a few seconds you've got the results. As you see xlCompare is not just a spreadsheet comparator - it performs much more operations, than usual excel comparison tool.

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Case #2

Our company has an Excel File with 20 worksheets. All these worksheets are linked with formulas and references for for calculations and for data. In some sheets we are using external references to get data from other excel file. So, this main book depends from other excel workbooks. Workbook has many formulas, defined names and references. Sometimes we save all workbooks and update the source files to do the calculations for the current period.

How to tracks all modifications in excel files and compare if source file data was updated properly in the final workbook. We want to compare data in two excel sheets and track all cells that was updated.

The Solution:

You can use Excel Compare to find differences (updated cells) in your excel files. In a few clicks you get a comparison report for your workbooks.

Difference Explorer shows list of changes found in your workbooks grouped by sheets and by address, so you can track all changes using this list. Go through all data record by record and check if all changes are correct. When you select record in the Diff Explorer Window xlCompare points you to actual worksheet cells that was changed.

You can mark all changed cells with color to analyze all modification later. Or to present changed input values and formulas to your colleague.

Export comparison summary in the XLSX format to send it to your co-worker so he can review your report and check the changes made.

Conclusion: Our Excel Compare Tool gives you a powerful solution for the tasks you experience in your everyday work.

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Case #3

I need to compare two excel workbooks and highlight differences. I have two similar excel worksheets. However, there is one main difference between data in these two sheets.

I must have a version prior to being re-shaped somewhat and many data-fields do not have the same data-type. So, in a typical comparison using a formula, date-columns may be text-type at one sheet and date-type at the other.

Obviously, these data-elements although showing the same date are different because of the data-types.

The Solution:

xlCompare has an option Flexible Comparison. With this option enabled Excel Compare converts text values into appropriate numeric or date value before comparing. This allows to significantly reduce comparison noise. Number of cells marked as updated is greately decreased.

Case #4

I have one main folder containing the data of every month that goes by. The number of files I have will continually grow overtime. I would like to have all of these merged into a table in one main file.

The Solution:

Solution for this case and similar another one we've placed into article below. Read it to get detailed instruction on how to consolidate values in two Excel sheet with excel file compare tool.

Compare Two Excel Sheets in Separate Excel Files

Case #5 (How to merge multiple Excel sheets into one)

I would like to compare two excel files, that has many worksheets and merge them in the one base file. These are not shared workbook, but our workers have modified and saved it under different names.

The Solution:

This case has various solutions with xlCompare, two of them are described in the article below.

Merge 2 excel files into one with excel file diff tool

For whom this excel file compare tool is?

Data Analyst and Data Scientist

Working with analytics data? Try to compare and analyze rich sets of data stored in the Excel tables with xlCompare!

Actuary

Compare your risk management models with xlCompare. Our tool is used in insurance companies over the world.

Software Developer

Compare merge application logs stored in the XLSX and CSV files. xlCompare is widely used in the Game development industry.

And every Excel user

Everyone who uses Excel needs to compare his files. If you are doing this regularly - let us do this job for you!

xlCompare makes complex work simple!

Spreadsheet Core Engine inside

Why xlCompare has a number of unique features, you can't find in other software?

xlCompare is based on the own Spreadsheet Core engine. So, we can offer you features which are not present in the software based on the Microsoft Excel Application.

Increase your productivity with Excel Compare

If you are working with Price List, Accounting Statement or complex Financials Model, xlCompare has options and algorithms for the every type of data. Update and Merge tables in a seconds using 1 click commands. Filter new or changed records, remove or highlight redundant records - xlCompare has all functions you need.

Create outlined Difference Report with this Excel File Compare Tool. Export report as PDF and send it to co-worker.

Combine contents of the several Excel sheets into one worksheet in a few clicks with maximum accuracy.

For Excel Developer we offer formula comparison and debugging commands. You will quickly find differences between 2 versions of your workbook and trace and debug calculations in your spreadsheet. Formula Auditing Tool will save you a lot of working time, spent for drilling into dependencies in your workbook.

Integrate xlCompare into your SVN\GIT environment using command line mode.

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