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Hope this article about How to Remove Duplicates in Excel is explanatory.
of data with duplicate entries, manual deletion would be a very big task and annoyance.Įxcel is having in-built option to remove the duplicate entries from data.
So, even if you do everything right, if you forget that step, you won't see the results.In this article we will learn about how we can remove the duplicates items in Excel. Once you enter the formula, don't forget to choose a formatting style. We repeat this for each column in the row. This allows our formula to incrementally check each row. This time, the absolute location is used for the column, but not the row. The next variable is the target that we are checking for a duplicate value ($A2). We use the absolute location because we want all to use the same range of cells when evaluating rows for duplicates.
To check the rows for duplicates, the formula first selects a column ($A$2:$A$14). This equation is true when it counts more than one row with the same information. If the answer is true, the formatting is applied. Let's take a closer look at this formula.Ĭonditional formating formulas have to return an answer that is either true or false. Set the Style to Classic, then open the next dropdown menu and choose Use a formula to determine which cells to format.ĬOUNTIFS($A$2:$A$14,$A2,$B$2:$B$14,$B2,$C$2:$C$14,$C2)>1