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I have a large list of Alpha/numeric codes and I need to determine if any of
the codes are duplicated. Of course I have sorted the column and done if
manually but the list is up to 4000 rows long (a monthly occurance) and i
almost make myself blind doing it by eyesight.I have tried IF formulae but to
no avail, I am a little stuck and even our IS department are unsure as to
what to do.
Any ideas?
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Two ways, with your data in column A, go Format, Conditional Formatting,
select 'Formula is' and enter
=COUNTIF(A:A,A10)1
and format the cell as bright yellow or whatever, all duplicates will be
yellow,

data in column A again, in B1 enter
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)1,"")
and copy down to the end of the range, all duplicates will have 1 in the
adjacent cell in column B, sort by column B
Regards,
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I have a large list of Alpha/numeric codes and I need to determine if any
of
the codes are duplicated. Of course I have sorted the column and done if
manually but the list is up to 4000 rows long (a monthly occurance) and i
almost make myself blind doing it by eyesight.I have tried IF formulae but
to
no avail, I am a little stuck and even our IS department are unsure as to
what to do.
Any ideas?



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Sorry, that should be
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)1,1,"")

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I have a large list of Alpha/numeric codes and I need to determine if any
of
the codes are duplicated. Of course I have sorted the column and done if
manually but the list is up to 4000 rows long (a monthly occurance) and i
almost make myself blind doing it by eyesight.I have tried IF formulae but
to
no avail, I am a little stuck and even our IS department are unsure as to
what to do.
Any ideas?



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