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Duplicates records
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Tue 18 Mar 2008, 16:34Delegate Miya said...
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Duplicates records
If you have a long list of figures/codes, how do you find an unintentional duplicate? If you don't know what you're searching for, how do you find a duplicate?
Tue 25 Mar 2008, 12:21Delegate Paul said...
RE: Duplicates records
for this instance, we'll say that your list is in column A
in cell B1, type =countif(A1,A:A)
This will give the amount of times the data in cell A1 occurs in column A. If it's unique, cell B1 will show 1
drag this formula down and you will be able to see where the duplicates are quite easily.
Even better, you can do a conditional format after that to say if any cell in column B is greater than 1. (Colour the cell red for example)
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