Paolo Lenotti is the Head of Marketing & PR at . In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to find and remove duplicates in your Excel document. You can also see our top tips on how to use Pivot tables here.
By asking carefully selected questions upfront, our online course only teaches the features of Excel that are useful to you, saving you precious time and providing a truly tailored learning experience.įollow these links to read more about Filtered training or the Excel course syllabus. The only problem with this is youll get the same result again the next time you hit one of the duplicate values but if you build an array of every duplicate that you have found you could use that as an ignorelist for future checks. You can access similar Excel tips through the Filtered Microsoft Excel training. Findnext to collect the rows that that the dupes are in. In a future post we’ll look at this functionality of Excel more closely. Criteria: The value that you’re seeking within the range.Range: This is a range of two or more cells that you wish to test.However you can isolate duplicate values using the COUNTIF worksheet function. If you’re using Excel 2003, you won’t be able to filter by color. To remove the conditional formatting, you can click the Conditional Formatting button, choose Clear Rules, and then Clear Rules from Entire Worksheet. Copy and paste it onto another worksheet, or just use it as you reckon best. The duplicate values will be presented to you, in one list only. Right-click on a duplicate cell, select Filter, and Filter by Selected Cell’s Color.Ħ. Great, we have identified the duplicates. Duplicate values in the list will now be identified. Click OK within the Duplicate Values dialog box to identify the duplicate values.Ĥ.
From the Home tab select Conditional Formatting, Highlight Cells Rules, and finally Duplicate Values.ģ. Now the background color of the duplicates will turn red as follows: In this example, the same value has been entered in both cells A2 and A5. In our example, weve clicked on the button. You can do that by clicking on a single cell and pressing Ctrl-A.Ģ. This macro will highlight any duplicate values in column A. First of all, select the range of cells that are of interest. In the example below, we are trying to understand how many invoices, last month, included more than one order – i.e. Please note that this tip works only with Excel 2007 and later versions. Today we present a very simple way of identifying duplicates in Excel, with just a few clicks of the mouse. Doing it (as most things Excel) is fairly easy the hard bit is remembering how. Quite often, when using Microsoft Excel, you need to be able to find and isolate duplicate values very quickly.