Excel provides built-in tools to help you to find discrepancies like Filters, Conditional Formatting, advanced functions (If and IS, VLookUp, etc.), and Add-ins.

Image: iStock/panimoni Microsoft Excel’s Find feature is one of its most flexible tools in the entire toolbox. You can do much more than just find and replace data. For instance, you can use it ...

If you can't find the terms or numbers you're looking for, be sure to double check the way you typed them into the search bar; Excel won't look for similar terms, so a mistype ruins the effort.