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Default Delete rows containing same value in two columns

Hello-

I have a spreadsheet that has 25-50 thousand rows. Columns D & E often
contain the same value, and I only want to keep the first instance
where the values are the same. I had code that would filter, but on
certain files my code will error out when trying to select only
visible cells to copy to another sheet. I later found out that it is
due to a limitation that there can only be 8100 or something non-
adjacent cells in the entire range. I figured that if I just deleted
the extra rows instead of filtering them, I could get around this.

A B C D E
115 115
115 115 Delete this
row
116 116
117 117
118 118
118 118 Delete this
row
118 118 Delete this
row

Thanks-

Scott