First, thanks for all replies.

It seems I'm lucky. My guess was completely wrong. I had not one, but two piles of Excel files, and I only looked at the first one, assuming the other one would be of similar size. The second pile had exactly one Excel file that did not contain a single line of VBA.

And my solution to the first pile was good old wetware for detecting repeated fragments, Notepad++ for brute-force searches for code fragments that seemed to be unique to the respective fragments, TortoiseMerge for comparing similar functions, and of course Strawberry Perl to run the perl script that cleans up and splits the VBA code copied out of Excel.

It is not the most elegant way, but in the end, it took less time than learning and setting up one of the proposed solutions.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

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