In a blank cell outside your data use:

=IF(MAX(COUNTIF($A$1:$J$10,$A$1:$J$10))=1,"no","ye s")
submit it using ctrl+shift+enter rather than just enter.

This tells you if the data has got repeated values (yes) or not (no).
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Allllen


"sood" wrote:

I have 16 coulmns and 239 rows containing telephone numbers. I want to know
whether there are repeated telephone numbers in a column or row.