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Louise
 
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Hi all

I have a large worksheet with Company names entered into Column A, however,
the names are duplicated and the same one can appear up to 20 times.

Is there a quick way I can ask Excel to search the column for me and leave
just one instance of each name, rather than having to delete the duplicates
manually?

Thank you.

Louise
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Look at <Data<Filter <advanced Filter
another way
use a helper column
enter in B1
=Countif($A$1:$A1,A1)
copy down to the bottom of your data.
Sort columns A and B by Column B
Delete all of the Column A and B Cells where B is greater than 1

"Louise" wrote:

Hi all

I have a large worksheet with Company names entered into Column A, however,
the names are duplicated and the same one can appear up to 20 times.

Is there a quick way I can ask Excel to search the column for me and leave
just one instance of each name, rather than having to delete the duplicates
manually?

Thank you.

Louise

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Louise wrote:
Hi all

I have a large worksheet with Company names entered into Column A, however,
the names are duplicated and the same one can appear up to 20 times.

Is there a quick way I can ask Excel to search the column for me and leave
just one instance of each name, rather than having to delete the duplicates
manually?

Thank you.

Louise


Have a look he

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

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Thank you both for your help. The Advanced Filter solution worked perfectly.

Louise

"Gordon" wrote:

Louise wrote:
Hi all

I have a large worksheet with Company names entered into Column A, however,
the names are duplicated and the same one can appear up to 20 times.

Is there a quick way I can ask Excel to search the column for me and leave
just one instance of each name, rather than having to delete the duplicates
manually?

Thank you.

Louise


Have a look he

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


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