How to Find Duplicates in Excel
If you just want to check the duplicate values in your data. You can do that by just highlighting the values and can later decide if you wish to keep the values or delete those duplicates.
To find duplicate values follow the below-mentioned steps:
Step 1: Select the Data
Open the Excel spreadsheet from which you want to check the duplicate values and Select the data.
Step 2: Go to Home Tab and Select Conditional Formatting and Click on Duplicate values
Go to the Data tab and select the option of Conditional Formatting. A drop down menu will appear, from the given choices in the menu select click on Highlight Cell Rules. Further drop down will appear. From that drop down options select the option of Duplicate values.
Step 3: Click on Format Cells that Contain and Select the Color Scheme
As you select the Duplicate Values option, a conditional formatting window will appear on the screen. In the window, go to the Format cells that contain option, click on given values with and a drop down will appear. From the drop down list select the colour scheme you wish to highlight and press Done.
Step 4: Preview the Highlighted Duplicate Values
Now you can check that the duplicate values in the data are highlighted with the selected colour.
How to Remove Duplicates in Excel? 4 Quick & Easy Methods
When it comes to Business analysis or data analysis, having organized and meaningful data plays an important role. But when you have a lot of data, you might end up with duplicate entries. These extra copies can make your data messy and hard to use. Microsoft Excel is a widely used tool for performing data-related queries. If you are someone who keeps struggling with duplicate values in the data then this article is for you.
In this article, we will learn different ways to remove duplicates in Excel. We can remove them using four easy methods that are explained below ranging from the easy “Remove Duplicates” button to using Excel codes, known as VBA.
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