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Default Extracting unique entries

That suggests to me that what looks like duplicates are not duplicates. Do
any have trailing spaces?

Check by using

=COUNTIF(A:A,Ax)

where x is a row that you think contains a duplicate. Do you get a result of
1?


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"Gaurav" wrote in message
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it still has all the duplicates.


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Should work to get the uniques. What does not working mean?

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Bob

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"Gaurav" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I have looked through the forum and could not find a solution to this
problem. I think it should be easy though.

I have some data in A1:AY3990. there are many duplicates and I want to
extract only unique ones to another sheet.

The data is too much and it will take a lot of time to delete
duplicates. Some have 3 duplicates, some have 2, some have 5 etc etc.

The good thing is that if the entry in column A is duplicate, that
entire row is going to be duplicate so we actually need to find
duplicates in column A only and extract only the unique ones to sheet 2.

I have tried the Advance Filter|Unique Values Only| option. Its not
working.


Thanks in advance
Gaurav