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Vlookup to cope with duplicates
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You could use this conditional formatting formula to highlight the duplicates on a column, in this case column A. Go to Format-Conditional Formatting-Condition1, choose Formula Is, and paste this formula: =IF(COUNTIF($A:$A,A1)=1,FALSE,NOT(COUNTIF($A$1:A1, A1)=1)) -- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "KayeNightingale" wrote: We have a list of Books; each Book has a Unique ISBN Number but, unfortunately the same Book can be listed twice so we are struggling to write a suitable VLOOKUP formula. The VLOOKUP correctly finds the first occurence of an entry with that ISBN number but how can we deal with finding the next occurence of the same ISBN number? There are 5000 rows of data and a lot of duplicates so this is causing a huge amount of manual editing each Quarter. Can anyone else please? KayeNightingale |
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-- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "alexrs2k" wrote: Hi. You could use this conditional formatting formula to highlight the duplicates on a column, in this case column A. Go to Format-Conditional Formatting-Condition1, choose Formula Is, and paste this formula: =IF(COUNTIF($A:$A,A1)=1,FALSE,NOT(COUNTIF($A$1:A1, A1)=1)) -- Alex *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you. Thank you! "KayeNightingale" wrote: We have a list of Books; each Book has a Unique ISBN Number but, unfortunately the same Book can be listed twice so we are struggling to write a suitable VLOOKUP formula. The VLOOKUP correctly finds the first occurence of an entry with that ISBN number but how can we deal with finding the next occurence of the same ISBN number? There are 5000 rows of data and a lot of duplicates so this is causing a huge amount of manual editing each Quarter. Can anyone else please? KayeNightingale |
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