Excel file comparison

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Hello,
im writing a solution for my boss, but i am struggled with a piece of the solution.. ill explain.

i have 2 excell sheets (file1.xls, file2.xls).
both files contain 2 columns, the first collumn contains variableNames, the 2nd collumn contains the value(data)(numeric).
the 1st collumns of the 2 files are exactly the same.

now i want to write a script that compares the 2 files, then write all the differences into a 3rd file (file3.xls).
somehow i cant imagine a way how to accomplish this.

the nicest thing is a code that i can implement in a new excell sheet(compare.xls) but it may also be a visualStudio script or vb6 or anything else vb (except ASP).

here is an example of how the files look:

http://www.catteryyelan.nl/images/question.png[^]

thnx in advance,
Tommy

Posted 13-Apr-11 22:42pm

garrox

Updated 13-Apr-11 22:48pm

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Wild-Programmer · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-14T00:35:00

Solution 1

See link http://www.exceltip.com/st/Compare_two_worksheets_using_VBA_in_Microsoft_Excel/477.html[^]

Posted 14-Apr-11 0:35am

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garrox 14-Apr-11 15:16pm

yeh, thats a very good idea of what i want
now i added the code to my workbook as macro and altered the last line thus:

CompareWorksheets ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1"), _
Workbooks(ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\File2.xls").Worksheets("Sheet1")

now i get the following error: Run-time error '9': Subscript out of range

i cant get it to work. File2.xls is in the same directory as the active workbook.