Excel: Conditional Format Rows in List 1 that are Not in List 2 by David Hager

 

I was watching one of Mike Girvin’s excellent Excel videos today. The technique demonstrated in the video was to use Power Query to extract items in list 1 that are NOT In list 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JztEKJ-XkCU

I realized that this was the opposite of the conditional formatting technique I had just published.

https://dhexcel1.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/excel-conditional-format-rows-in-one-list-that-are-in-another-list-by-david-hager/

So, for the sake of completeness, I decided to modifyvmy technique to emulate Mike’s technique.

Only a minor modification of the the CF formula was neccesary to produce the opposite condition.

=ISERROR(FIND(CONCAT($A2:$E2),CONCAT($I$2:$M$6)))

You can see the results in the following figure.

 

You can download the example file here.

TableAntiCompareCF