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Answer by miroxlav for A bug in Excel? Conditional formatting for marking...
After further research of the behavior and documentation, I can answer the question from high-level perspective:This is rather an undocumented behavior than a defect.Other answers reminded us of use of...
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Answer by Saaru Lindestøkke for A bug in Excel? Conditional formatting for...
If you Google for excel asterisk wildcard conditional formatting you'll find someone with the same issue.There the proposed solution is to use a custom formula to check if the value is a duplicate.The...
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It is indeed because * is treated as a wildcard.The way around it, is to use a formula to insert a tilde (~) in order to escape the asterisk (*) for your conditional...
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A bug in Excel? Conditional formatting for marking duplicates also highlights...
If I let Excel highlight two duplicate values PT_INTERNAL2859736, then also unique value *736 gets highlighted. Why this happens and how can I stop highlighting the unique value as duplicate?I thought...
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