Gordon wrote:
Alan Beban wrote:
|| Gordon wrote:
||| jsm wrote:
||||| I have a spreadsheet of data with multiple occurrences of
||||| duplicate rows. I need to know how to find and remove the
||||| duplicate rows of data to prevent double counting.
|||
||| Try he
||| http://www.cpearson.com/excel/deleti...eDuplicateRows
|||
||
|| The cited link has code to delete rows in which a value in a single
|| column is duplicated; is that what the OP meant by "duplicate rows"?
||
|| Alan Beban

I agree - the page is a bit ambiguous, isn't it? The illustrations would
suggest that the macro does what the OP wants, but the text might have a
different interpretation!
There is a link to other "duplicate" workarounds at the bottom. I usually
find that site very good!


I think only the topic heading "Delete Duplicate Rows" is inapt. The
description of the code makes it perfectly clear that "Entire rows are
not compared against one another. . . ." and that *all* rows with the
same value in the specified column, whether the remaining columns have
duplicate values or not, are deleted. And the illustrations make this
abundantly clear--the illustration for before running the code shows
that there are *no*" entire rows that are duplicated, yet the
illustration for after running the code shows that some rows have
nevertheless been deleted.

It may well be that the OP needs the solution provided by the linked
code; I just don't think "duplicate rows" is an apt description for that
case. Something like "delete rows with duplicate column values" would
more clearly describe that case.

Alan Beban