{"id":547,"date":"2012-11-29T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T04:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:13:55","slug":"data-compare-o-matic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/professional\/data-compare-o-matic","title":{"rendered":"Data Compare-o-Matic &#8211; Double Entered Data Comparison in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data Compare-o-Matic is a simple way to check double-entered data in Microsoft Excel. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_pass_verification\">Double data entry<\/a> is a technique to guard against data entry errors. Two people enter the same data set into separate documents and the documents are compared for discrepancies in data entry. Data Compare-o-Matic can examine two Excel worksheets and show discrepancies one at a time to the user, who can then either choose the correct value or write-in their own value to correct both data sets. I wrote Data Compare-o-Matic because I couldn&#8217;t find a simpler solution for comparing double-entered data in large data sets (i.e. over 100 columns).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy-to-use interface<\/li>\n<li>Displays discrepancies individually<\/li>\n<li>Fix discrepancies with a click<\/li>\n<li>Write-in your own value to replace values in both tables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requires:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Excel (with macros enabled)<\/li>\n<li>Two sets of data arranged in the same order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch a video of Data Compare-o-Matic in action!<\/strong><br \/>\nhttpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xzB5aXKyQGA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_548\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-548\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548\" title=\"xltm-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/xltm-1760.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">{ Click to download! }<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/files\/DataCompareoMatic.xlsm\">Download Data Compare-o-Matic!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Compare-o-Matic is a simple way to check double-entered data in Microsoft Excel. Double data entry is a technique to guard against data entry errors. Two people enter the same data set into separate documents and the documents are compared for discrepancies in data entry. Data Compare-o-Matic can examine two&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/professional\/data-compare-o-matic\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Data Compare-o-Matic &#8211; Double Entered Data Comparison in Excel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":452,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"noside.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}