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I'm using excel 2003. I use large S/S and I would like to be able to locate
duplicates easily. I have found a guide on the internet for creating a
conditional format for this purpose but for some reason it doesn't work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Well show us what it is and explain what happens.

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I'm using excel 2003. I use large S/S and I would like to be able to

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duplicates easily. I have found a guide on the internet for creating a
conditional format for this purpose but for some reason it doesn't work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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See:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/duplic...tingDuplicates

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I'm using excel 2003. I use large S/S and I would like to be able to locate
duplicates easily. I have found a guide on the internet for creating a
conditional format for this purpose but for some reason it doesn't work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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"Lizardking" wrote:

I'm using excel 2003. I use large S/S and I would like to be able to locate
duplicates easily. I have found a guide on the internet for creating a
conditional format for this purpose but for some reason it doesn't work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks



Assuming the column A is the First column you wanna highlight items.

Select the column.
Then goto your conditional formatting.
Change the Cell Value is to Formula is and type in the following

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

Then select the format buttom then Pattern and select your color.
then ok
and Bingo you got the Duplicated Values highlighted :-P Hope this helps you
out...

just change the A to the letter of the column your working with...
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