I have a large excel file with 12K records of companies, addresses., etc I
want to eliminate duplications where company and city are duplicated but not
necessarily street addresses. How do I do so?

Hi,
Look here CPearson has a macro to do that, go to the middle of the page

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/deleting.htm



"Big B" wrote:

I have a large excel file with 12K records of companies, addresses., etc I
want to eliminate duplications where company and city are duplicated but not
necessarily street addresses. How do I do so?

try this
1. Select all the rows, including the column headers, in the list you want to filter.


2. Click the top left cell of the range, and then drag to the bottom right cell.
3. On the Data menu, point to Filter, and then click Advanced Filter.
4. In the Advanced Filter dialog box, click Filter the list, in place.
5. Select the Unique records only check box, and then click OK.
The filtered list is displayed and the duplicate rows are hidden.

6.On the Edit menu, click Office Clipboard.
The Clipboard task pane is displayed.

7.Make sure the filtered list is still selected, and then click Copy .
The filtered list is highlighted with bounding outlines and the selection appears as an item at the top of the Clipboard.

8.On the Data menu, point to Filter, and then click Show All.
The original list is re-displayed.

Press the DELETE key.
The original list is deleted.

In the Clipboard, click on the filtered list item.
The filtered list appears in the same location as the original list.
all the best