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Big_Country
Dec 01, 2018Copper Contributor
Conditional Formatting duplicating rules
When trying to use conditional formatting rules to highlight duplicate values it always highlights these same numbers which aren't duplicates. I've formatted the cells every way to prevent this but n...
SergeiBaklan
Dec 03, 2018Diamond Contributor
Some functions in Excel recognize only first 15 digits in numbers presented as text, see for example https://wmfexcel.com/2015/01/24/15-significant-digit-issue-with-sumifs-countifs-averageifs/
Same is for duplicates in conditional formatting. Alternatively you may use the rule with formula
=SUMPRODUCT(--($C2=$C$2:$C$6536))>1