You could use the formula

COUNTIF($A$1:$A$10, A1)1

with conditional formatting

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HTH

RP
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"John Mansfield" wrote in message
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Steve,

As an example, assuming your data is the range A1:A10, this formula will
return TRUE for any duplicates:

=IF(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$10, A1)1,TRUE,FALSE)

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Regards,
John Mansfield
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"steve" wrote:

im trying to find out if excel will warn me if text appears in a range
of
cells more than twice,, i run a fantacy league but each member can only
have
two players from the same team ie leeds,mancester, liverpool. can i
write a
formula that will tell me if one team appears more than twice
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steve b