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Default Updating & Archiving Records


Hi,

I am using Excel 2007.

I have a large spreadsheet and new data is added periodically.

I have several columns of data associated with a description & date.

The data associated with each description is unique to that day.

I want to archive the older desciption data after I add newer
description data.

Column B = date of the data
Column E = description (phrase)

How do I remove duplicate older rows of description data from my main
spreadsheet (keep the newest descriptions rows) and save the older rows
of data in a archive sheet?

My sheet has many columns from A to BU.

I have about 220,000 records with many duplicate Descriptions in column
E. Each Description record has a date in the Date column B.

Records are sorted by: Description A to Z
then by: Date Newest to Oldest.

Here is an example (not actual sheet):

I highlighted the duplicate Description records in these examples that
I want to update and archive.


[image: http://reportingthetruth.com/post-images/sample01a.jpg]


I want to delete the older Description records from my main sheet so
that only the duplicate Description records with the newest date remains
like the example below.


[image: http://reportingthetruth.com/post-images/sample01b.jpg]


And the older duplicate records that are removed from the main sheet I
would like to save to a new sheet so that I can save a history of the
Description records.


[image: http://reportingthetruth.com/post-images/sample01c.jpg]


Any thoughts how I can do this?


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