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Hello,

I have a list of Links in Column A in Excel and there are list of links in the column B. I want to compare whether the Web Content is matching in one link is equal to the web content in the oher link.
s there is any work around for this Issue.
Please let me know

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Sandeep Mewara 28-Jun-12 6:39am    
And the issue is? Just posting what you 'want' is not enough.
ZurdoDev 28-Jun-12 8:33am    
use vlookup or one of the other functions. What's the problem?

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There isn't an Excel function to compare the content of two websites to each other. In fact, I'm not aware of any free application that does this. I did come across a few paid applications like this one:

http://www.sobolsoft.com/comparehtml/[^]

It sounds as though you have three options. One, you can do the comparison using a tool like the one above. It won't be quick because you cannot automate the comparison (that I know of) so that it runs down your list. Two, you could write a comparison engine yourself. Basically, create an application that downloads the entire landing page of the site. Either create a hash of the site's value (to compare if two are completely equal) or do a difference comparison using something like BeyondCompare (they have command-line options). Finally, your third option would be to re-evaluate your requirements. Figure out what the end result needs to be and either identify if that is really a good idea or figure out that maybe you can't do what you really want to do.
 
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