If two cells are the same, make them green, throught the whole column

[CaptainCsaba]

Hi!

This one probably has an easy answer but I just cant figure it out. I have two columns that need to be compared. I want to make both B2 and D2 green if they both have let's say 21345 in them. But this applies to all of the rest of the file. There are around 2000 rows and this would need to apply to all of them. so if D365 and B365 are the same they should be green.

I can't really fill down the conditional formatting tool and there I can only give the rule "= D2=B2" which would put D2=B2 to all of the cells. What should I do?

 

[alansidman]

Try this VBA solution

Option Explicit


Sub Green()
    Dim lr As Long, i As Long
    lr = Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    For i = 2 To lr
        If Range("B" & i) = Range("D" & i) Then
            Range("B" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
            Range("D" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
        End If
    Next i
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    MsgBox "complete"
End Sub

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[CaptainCsaba]

Hey alansidman!

Thank you for the code. I did how you instructed. If I get terror code '13' Type mismatch, what did I do wrong?

 

[Peter_SSs]

I can't really fill down the conditional formatting tool and there I can only give the rule "= D2=B2" which would put D2=B2 to all of the cells. What should I do?

You certainly can use Conditional formatting.
Select B2:B?? and apply CF, use a formula .. =AND(B2<>"",B2=D2) and set your formatting, OK. Excel will automatically adjust for the other row numbers.

Then do the same thing with D2:D?? & exactly the same formula

Excel Workbook
	B	C	D
1
2	21345		21345
3	9		4
4	4		6
5	569		569
6
7	2		2
8	6589		6859
CF Matches

Cells with Conditional Formatting
Cell	Condition		Cell Format	Stop If True
B2	1. / Formula is =AND(B2<>"",B2=D2)	Abc
D2	1. / Formula is =AND(B2<>"",B2=D2)	Abc

 

[alansidman]

I get terror code '13' Type mismatch, what did I do wrong?

When you get the error and click on debug, what line of code is highlighted?

 

[Peter_SSs]

When you get the error and click on debug, what line of code is highlighted?

One cause would be error values in the range(s)

 

[CaptainCsaba]

It worked perfectly, thank you!