{"id":5156,"date":"2012-10-16T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:47:03","slug":"excel-2007-conditional-formatting-compare-3-columns-with-text-find-unique-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"Excel 2007 &#8211; Conditional Formatting: Compare 3 columns with text &#8211; find unique values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raised a question at Superuser.com which got answered in just a few seconds, see http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/488367\/excel-2007-conditional-formatting-compare-3-columns-with-text-find-unique-v<\/p>\n<p>The magic was achieved by using Conditional Formatting and adding a formula <code class=\"codespan\">=COUNTIFS($A:$C;A1)&lt;=2<\/code>. Still having some issues, seems to be caused by me having imported the text from csv-files. Might be that if all had been typed in it would have worked without errors. Maybe need a newer version of Excel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised a question at Superuser.com which got answered in just a few seconds, see http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/488367\/excel-2007-conditional-formatting-compare-3-columns-with-text-find-unique-v The magic was achieved by using Conditional Formatting and adding a formula =COUNTIFS($A:$C;A1)&lt;=2. Still having some issues, seems to be caused by me having imported the text from csv-files. Might be that if all had been typed in it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12454,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}