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Default delete duplicate data in the same cell

hi John Bundy...
Text to column will be too time consuming after spliting each word onto
a different column if there are like 100s words on each row and there
are 100s of rows...?

Will it be a mission to filter then??

Is there a way to filter the row btw??

elaine.
John Bundy wrote:
My obvious answer is to tell you to just use text to columns, you can split
the cell at each space, somehow i'm sure that is too easy. If that doesn't
work you can build a quick array as long are no words with spaces.
-John

"elaine" wrote:

hi,
i have got a question...
how do you delete deplicate data in the same cell?

ie. In Cell A1

apple apple apple

i wanted to delete the 2nd and 3rd apple, but keep the first apple, how
could i do that?
theres no semicolon, or any punctuation marks in between the
duplicates... just space. Can this be done?

same as if I have

apple apple banana apple

How can the 2nd apple, banana and 3rd apple be dedupe?

Thanks.
Elaine.