Row and Column Aligner
When a spreadsheet is modified rows and columns are
often inserted or deleted. This means that cells containing
the same material will no longer be in the same location in
the original and the modified spreadsheet. Before
the spreadsheets can be compared, they must first be realigned.
That is, rows or columns must be inserted so that cells containing
the same material will be lined up. Doing this manually
can be extremely time consuming.
Spreadsheet Advantage solves this problem with the Row and
Column Aligner tool, which automatically realigns
two spreadsheets. It uses an intelligent algorithm,
and can cope even if many changes have been made to the spreadsheets.
It allows you to realign a pair of workbooks in a
single step, and it requires no guidance
from the user in its operation.
For a simple example of its use, see the figure below. On
the left is the original version of the sheet. The modified
version on the right has had a number of changes made: the
“Maintenance” category has been removed, and “Electricity”
and “Replacement Costs” categories have been added.
As you can see, corresponding categories in each sheet no
longer match up. |