I need a macro that will delete duplicate data. I can
search on one column and delete the duplicate data. It is
possible that there is more than one duplication.
Ideally, I would like to keep the last entry, but I could
work around that if it was not possible. Any help would
be appreciated.

Tony

Chip Pearson has documented many methods for dealing with duplicates and
uniques

See his page on this:

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


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Tony" wrote in message
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I need a macro that will delete duplicate data. I can
search on one column and delete the duplicate data. It is
possible that there is more than one duplication.
Ideally, I would like to keep the last entry, but I could
work around that if it was not possible. Any help would
be appreciated.

Tony

I have a non-macro solution and a macro solution. Both are
pretty quick and painless.

Non Macro
- Sort the table of data by the field that determines if
the record is a duplicate. (Column A in my example)
- In an empty column, type this formula into row 3
(assuming you have headings):
=If(A3=A2,"x","")
- Fill the formula down for as far as you have values in
that column.
- Filter on the x and delete those rows.
- What's left is only one instance of each.

Macro

Sub DeleteDups()
Dim LastRow As Integer
Dim i As Integer

LastRow = ActiveSheet.Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row

ActiveSheet.Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Sort
Key1:=ActiveSheet.Range("A1"), Order1:=xlAscending,
Header:=xlYes
For i = LastRow To 3 Step -1
If ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 1).Value =
ActiveSheet.Cells(i - 1, 1).Value Then ActiveSheet.Rows
(i).Delete Shift:=xlUp
Next i

End Sub

tod

-----Original Message-----
I need a macro that will delete duplicate data. I can
search on one column and delete the duplicate data. It
is
possible that there is more than one duplication.
Ideally, I would like to keep the last entry, but I could
work around that if it was not possible. Any help would
be appreciated.

Tony
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