Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Get column index in Excel Table
  • How To Load Analysis ToolPak in Excel
  • Conflicting Multiple Conditional Formatting Rules in Excel
  • Use Data Form to input, edit and delete records in Excel
  • Conditional Formatting Color Scales Examples in Excel

References

  • Last row number in range
  • How to use Excel ROW Function
  • How to get address of first cell in range in Excel
  • VLOOKUP function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation only dates between
  • Excel Data validation no punctuation
  • Excel Data validation require unique number
  • Excel Data validation must contain specific text
  • Excel Data validation must not contain

How to compare two text strings in Excel

by

If you need to compare two text strings in Excel to determine if they’re equal, you can use the EXACT function.

Formula

=EXACT(text1, text2)

Explanation

For example, if you want to compare A2 with B2, use:

=EXACT(A2,B2)

If the two strings are identical, EXACT will return TRUE. If not, EXACT will return FALSE. You can use this result inside the IF function to display a message or make a conditional calculation. For example, to display the message “Yes” for a match and “No” if not, use:

=IF(EXACT(A2,B2),"Yes","No")

Note the EXACT function is case sensitive. If you don’t care about case, you can simply use the equal sign like so:

=A2=B2

Visit: Case-sensitive and case-insensitive ways to Compare Text in Excel examples.

Worked Example:   Excel Data validation allow uppercase only

This formula will return TRUE or FALSE, and will treat “Apple” and “apple” as the same.

Post navigation

Previous Post:

Get day from date in Excel

Next Post:

Calculate loan interest in given year in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • IF function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • IFS function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to use Excel OR Function
  • IFNA function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Return blank if in Excel

Date Time

  • How to enter Today’s Date or Static Date and Time in Excel
  • Convert decimal hours to Excel time
  • How to get year from date in Excel
  • Display Days until expiration date in Excel
  • How to calculate months between dates in Excel

Grouping

  • Map inputs to arbitrary values in Excel
  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • If cell contains one of many things in Excel
  • Running count group by n size in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • Find Most Frequently Occurring Word in Excel Worksheet
  • How to calculate percent change in Excel
  • How to get random value from list or table in Excel
  • How to create dynamic worksheet reference in Excel
  • Customize Ribbon In Excel
© 2023 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning