Development of excel spreadsheet is a great news for office workers, business personals, storekeepers and all other relevant people who were in habit to keep big load of files for storing tons of data. It was very difficult to sort out any information and to compare data. But with the development of technology, all such files have been replaced by computers and you can store bulk data with several backups on one computer. Moreover you can compare excel spreadsheets for data comparison. Microsoft excel is the old and primary tool for data analysis, arrangement and sorting. Although it is the best and easiest working tool for managing numerical as well as non-numerical data but for a beginner it may be a tough task to compare excel spreadsheets. So if you are a beginner then it is necessary that you should know some basic tips and formulas to handle large excel spreadsheets.

The very basic and first formula you need to know is of data sorting and filtering. You can either use it from menu bar or apply “Alt+D+F+F”. With the application of this formula you can see some drop down buttons on the top of your data. Now you can sort the data in ascending order, descending order, color sort or apply custom sort. Similarly you can filter the data in same manner by defining the specific criteria and it will do the job for you.
After sorting and filtering, the next formula for large excel spreadsheets comparison is called “vlookup” function. Through this function you can compare data of one sheet with another and it will give your results in the form of true and false values. The mechanism of vlookup search for a value within the left table column and compare it with the value in the column row you define. It is necessary that the table should follow an ascending sequence.
For overall numerical spread sheet comparison and calculation, you can use “sumif” function and it will calculate and compare the values of one spread sheet with the other. You can sort out duplication of data through this formula in spreadsheets that can be removed if necessary or used for calculation accordingly.

