[Novalug] OT: comparing spreadsheet data files, and displaying results

[Nino Pereira]

Could you export the two files to text, and then use xxdiff
on the two text files?

xxdiff gives you two columns on a single screen. Differences
are marked by a yellow band, so they are easy to spot.

Nino



Mark Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:10:51AM -0700, James (Jim) Darlack wrote:
>>   Im looking for a method of comparing and displaying two Microshaft Excel Spreadsheet files.  The content are daily job postings within a company.  There are many postings, and it is difficult to spot any new postings. Especially when the new postings are scattered within the spreadsheet
> 
> not sure exactly what you're doing, but i've had luck exporting to
> a csv and then doing a diff, particularly a side-by-side diff in an
> extra wide xterm.
>